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Restart for technical departments at Arend-Sosef

The electrical systems, irrigation systems and automation departments at Arend-Sosef will continue independently. This was announced by director Ronald Begelinger of Enthoven Techniek on Friday, 14 March 2014. Their activities will be continued under the name Tebarint, and be based at the familiar Honselersdijk site. With this takeover, the positions of 30 employees are guaranteed.

On 18 February 2014, Arend-Sosef was declared bankrupt. The company no longer received financial support from its bank. In the past few weeks the executors have arranged a restart for various departments. Just one month after the bankruptcy was declared, Ronald Begelinger can announce this new beginning. The activities provided by Arend-Sosef in technology and services have been taken over entirely. Within a few days the company will resume its work.

'Familiar faces'

Not only the name and the activities are starting up again, several familiar faces of Arend-Sosef Techniek will be helping to get the new company going. The 30 employees who will remain come from the technology and services departments of Arend-Sosef. The management team under the guidance of a director will be named at a later date. With this step, Tebarint is returning to the basics: the technology with which Van der Arend Tuinbouwtechniek and Nic. Sosef built up their excellent reputation. The company will focus on electrical systems, irrigation systems and automation installations.

'Vacuum in the market'

Just like everyone else, Ronald Begelinger was surprised by the bankruptcy of Arend-Sosef. In the days immediately following, his company was frequently visited by clients of Arend-Sosef looking for solutions for servicing their installations and automation. Enthoven Techniek has been a well-known Priva dealer for 30 years. 'I quickly realised that our organisation could serve another thousand clients, but not without taking steps. A sort of vacuum had been created in the market through the loss of 125 technicians. We did not have the dossiers, diagrams and customer knowledge to be able to provide a cost-efficient service for the growers.' After discussing the situation with a number of prominent horticultural entrepreneurs and investors, the restart was put together. 'I am perfectly aware that I am helping to set up an independent competitor, but the benefits for the market, and thus also for me, were greater than the disadvantages. In this slimmed down form, with a focus on what the company is good at, a flexible organisation is created with a low hierarchy which can certainly reclaim its former position in the horticultural sector. I will not be managing it, I am busy enough with my own group of companies.'

3,000 clients

Tebarint will continue working in the Netherlands and abroad. The current building of Arend-Sosef on the Stationsweg in Honselersdijk will remain the base of operations for the 30 employees for now. And there will be an end to the uncertainty faced by the company’s clients. Arend-Sosef was responsible for supporting circa 3,000 horticultural trading companies, which could now be served by Tebarint.


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