Twenty years ago, Henrik Larsen opened Alex Andersen's hub in Aalsmeer. Today, transport to and from Scandinavia is still the backbone of the Danish company. In recent years, the local transport of flowers and plants within the Netherlands has also been on the rise.
The idea to open a branch in the Netherlands actually came from British customers. When one of Alex Andersen’s trucks delivered some trolleys of plants in Liverpool or Manchester, another truck from the Netherlands with a few trolleys on board happened also to be at the dock. “Why not deliver those plants straight from the Westland region?” they asked Alex Andersen's driver.
“It was much more efficient to base ourselves in Aalsmeer and ferry full trucks with plants from Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany to the UK,” Henrik Larsen, CEO of Alex Andersen Netherlands, recalls. This is why he established the Aalsmeer branch in 2004, which now acts as a hub for the rest of Europe. Alex Andersen has another hub in Herongen, Germany, but most of those goods go directly to German customers.
