Stodels
{{Short description|South African retail chain}}
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| type = Private
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| industry = Retail
| founded = 1962{{cite web|url= https://www.stodels.com/about/ |title= About |author= |publisher= Stodels |date= |access-date= 19 January 2025 }}
| location = Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
| areas_served = South Africa
| key_people = {{Unbulleted list
| Robert Stodel (Founder); Nick Stodel (CEO)
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| services = Garden centers
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| website = {{URL|stodels.com}}
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Stodels is a South African garden center retailer, operating a chain of garden centers in two of the country's provinces (the Western Cape, and Gauteng).{{cite web|url= https://www.stodels.com/branch-locator/ |title= Stores Archive |author= |publisher= Stodels |date= |access-date= 19 January 2025 }}{{cite web|url= https://www.pressreader.com/south-africa/weekend-argus-saturday-edition/20120818/286955356874793 |title= Garden centre celebrates 50 years|author= Stodefls Group spokesperson |publisher= Weekend Argus (Saturday Edition) |date= 18 August 2012 |access-date= 19 January 2025 }}
Headquartered in Cape Town, Western Cape, the company has been operating since 1962.
File:Stodels garden center exterior, Bergvliet.jpg, Cape Town, South Africa|261px]]
History
Stodels was established in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1962, when founder Robert Stodel began making sales through a mail-order catalogue, door-to-door visits, and out of his van on the Grand Parade in Cape Town.
The first Stodels garden center opened in 1968, in the residential suburb of Kenilworth, Cape Town followed by the opening of a Stodels Bellville garden center in 1973, where the company's headquarters is situated today.
In 2006, Robert Stodel's son, Nick Stodel, took over the business, thereafter opening 5 more garden centers.
In 2011, Nick became the President of the South African Nursery Association (SANA),{{cite web|url= https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/473/64982.html |title= SA leader for world gardening body |author= Wilma den Hartigh |publisher= Bizcommunity.com |date= 30 September 2011 |access-date= 19 January 2025 }} and was the first President of the International Garden Centre Association (IGCA) to be elected from the African continent and the Southern Hemisphere.
In March 2012, Stodels opened a garden center in the Cape Town residential suburb of Constantia, which was later replaced by a garden center in Bergvliet.
In August 2012, the company opened a garden center in Somerset West.
Operations
The company has 8 garden centers, located across 2 provinces in South Africa.{{cite web|url= https://www.bizcommunity.com/article/stodels-garden-centre-opens-at-ferndale-on-republic-908844a |title= Stodels Garden Centre opens at Ferndale on Republic |author= |publisher= Bizcommunity.com |date= 10 April 2024 |access-date= 17 November 2024 }}
Stodels sells, among other things, outdoor and indoor plants, seeds, soil, and plant-related decor items, such as pots.
The retailer also operates Stodels Cafés at some of its locations, serving food and drinks.
Stodels operates a free loyalty program called Stodels Garden Club, providing clients who register with discounts on garden center purchases, points for purchases, gifts, and discounts at Stodels Cafés.{{cite web|url= https://www.stodels.com/about-our-garden-club/ |title= About our garden club |author= |publisher= Stodels |date= |access-date= 19 January 2025 }}
Awards
Stodels has won numerous South African Nursery Association Independent Garden Centre Awards. Those include Best Garden Centre in South Africa in 2013, and again in 2022, as well as the Cape Regional Award, which Stodels has received every year since 2009.
In 2017, the company's CEO, Nick Stodel, was presented with a South African Nursery Association Gold Award, the highest honour in the industry.
See also
References
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External links
- [https://sana.co.za The South African Nursery Association]
- [https://www.intgardencentre.org The International Garden Centre Association]