Who or what is Vosteen anyway?
Where does the name come from and what does it mean?
This name is in fact very little known and is often misunderstood or misspelled – Verstehn, Vonsteen, Vossten, Voosten, Vostee.
Identified by many as a Dutch or Belgian company, the name most likely originates from a small village Vosteen in the municipality of Ganderkesee. There is also a large stone with a hoofprint of the devil. There is a legend about it: A hunter went hunting on Sunday and saw a fox on a stone. He pulled the trigger, but he heard the devil’s laughter and the hoofprint remained. Since then, the hunter never went hunting on a Sunday again.
This is the meaning: fox stone.
1 Company foundation
- Business registration of accountant Heinrich Vosteen at Grüne Str. 101 in Delmenhorst on 1.9.1933
- Beginning of the independent activity of Heinrich Vosteen sen. as sales representative for Otto Storbeck Seed Breeding Company from 1934 to 1939
- Entry in the Commercial Register on 13.02.1940 under number 247. The company trades in horticultural supplies, pesticides, fertilizers and articles for funerals.
2 The pick-up market is created
- Purchase of the Ahlers cork factory in Delmenhorst, Hamburger Weg 19-21 in 1949. This is followed by further purchases of the adjacent land and expansion into a pick-up store with a shipping zone.
- The company continues to grow through the economic miracle years and delivers goods throughout northern Germany.
3 The 2nd generation joins the company. Moving into the head office
- The second generation, consisting of Helmut, Heinrich (Heiner), Karin and Ute Vosteen, join the company. Karin and Ute still work in different areas of the company today.
- Heinrich M. becomes the new managing director. He develops the company from a pure wholesaler into a globally networked import company. He successfully managed the family business until his death in 2018.
- Relocation of the offices, warehouse and sample rooms to the former Helms metal goods factory in Ludwig-Kaufmann-Str. 3 in Delmenhorst in 1994.
4 Entry of the 3rd generation. New pick-up store in Stuhr
- 2011 Caroline and Rafael Vosteen join the company.
- Relocation of the warehouse to the former Ikea building in Delmenhorster Str. to Stuhr near Bremen in the district of Groß-Mackenstedt on the border with Stuhr Varel. The site is easily accessible from the Bremen interchange between the A1 and A28. Over 12,000 square meters are used to pack shipments and deliver them throughout Europe.
- 2013 Opening of the new pick-up store in Stuhr.
5 Today
- 2018 Rafael Vosteen is appointed as the new 3rd generation Managing Director.
- 2019 50 years Floris GmbH- under the Floris GmbH the branch at the Bremen wholesale market is operated.
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Our sales stand is located in the flower hall, right next to partners such as Grimm, Schleper, Dirk Schröder, Gustav Wessels and Hans Truffel.
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Our team will take your orders by phone and answer your e-mails.
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