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Overview
Eversdal Road Bellville Northern Suburbs, Cape Town 7530phone: view phone+2721 9191106
fax: view fax086-5314866
website: http://www.stodels.com
Description
The company was started by our present Managing Director, Mr Robert Stodel, who worked on the famous flower bulb farms during his school holidays and over weekends. Stodels Bellville after opening in 1973
He studied horticulture at high school in Aalsmeer, Holland. After immigrating to our beautiful country, South Africa, he worked for a short time as advisory to many flower farms in the Cape, specializing in flower bulbs and soils. Soon he realized that there was a place in the market for the importation of flower bulbs and started selling flower bulbs from door to door and from the Parade in Cape Town.
Stodels Bellville before revamp in 1973. He also started to mail a 6-page price list to homeowners throughout the Cape. Soon, Stodels Flower bulbs became the biggest flower bulb retailer in South Africa posting nearly 600 000 36-page full-colour catalogues and importing up to 20 million flower bulbs from Holland per year. Stodels Bellville which burnt down in 1985
Customers demanded not only flower bulbs but also associated products. Therefore, the first one-stop retail garden center was opened in Kenilworth in 1968. In 1973 Stodels, Bellville was opened. Soon we became a pioneer in the horticultural retail industry and are proud of the fact that we changed the garden center scene throughout the country.
Till this day we are the biggest horticultural retailer in the Western Cape.
Eversdal Road Bellville 7530
