PLANTAS CONTINENTAL, S.A. was founded in 1988 as a family business devoted to obtain, research and development rose plants for cut flowers.
The Company achieves to place its product-plant among the most valued at global level due to its guarantee for replanting, health and vegetative response; possible by human, technical and financial effort made.
In addition, its clients are distributed in more than 17 countries, strengthening its presence in the markets in which it operates and enabling access to new ones. The loyalty of all of them, together with the collaboration of the most prestigious breeding companies, is their best guarantee.
The Company registers the first rose varieties for cut flower, materializing an idea was in force since the beginning of its foundation. Thus, in 2008, Plantas Continental introduces a portfolio composed of 4 varieties, including Malena® in honour of the local women where the Company is located.
Together with the development of new varieties of rose for cut flower, there will also be the diversification with fruit tree propagation taking advantage of the know-how acquired in the rose area, such as the olive or almond tree, as well as the clonation of forest trees with the introduction of the paulownia as bioenergetic investment.
During this decade, the company participates in a dozen research projects together with entities such as CDTI, the University of Malaga or the University of Cordoba. Thus, in 2012, Plantas Continental, SA would receive the CYTED-IBEROEKA “Luis Pieri” award for Technological Innovation for its “Fast Rose” project and, years later, the Innovative SME seal.
Continental Breeding® is created, a brand with which the company decides to highlight the distinction between the ornamental and fruit divisions. At the end of this decade there are already more than 25 commercial varieties of rose for cut flowers with presence in the most important production markets in the world, most of them being award-winning varieties at the trade fairs where they have been exhibited; thus: Cotton Candy® (Flowers 2012 Expo, Moscow), Pegasso® (IFTEX 2013, Nairobi), Mayra’s Rose® Pink (Proflora 2015, Bogota) or the “Best Breeder” (Agriflor 2016, Quito), among others.
In the fruit sector, the company is already one of the most important companies at the national level, setting itself appart from its competitors due to the scientific advances incorporated into its production. As a result, the first Vertires plants are sold on the market, a rootstock resistant to defoliant Verticilium, outcome of the biotechnological investigation carried out by the University of Cordoba and for which the company would receive the first prize for Technical Research at Expoliva (Jaen, 2017) reinforcing its commitment to R&D&i.
Amongst its most recent achievements is the obtaining of a new variety of olive tree under study whose name of the variety is still to be determined. Plantas Continental, SA also receives the distinction as Accredited Technological Knowledge Agent (ACTA); the research of new ornamental, fruit and biomass varieties has been its main activity since its foundation and, also, its pathway of the future.
PLANTAS CONTINENTAL, S.A. was founded in 1988 as a family business devoted to obtain, research and development rose plants for cut flowers.
The Company achieves to place its product-plant among the most valued at global level due to its guarantee for replanting, health and vegetative response; possible by human, technical and financial effort made.
In addition, its clients are distributed in more than 17 countries, strengthening its presence in the markets in which it operates and enabling access to new ones. The loyalty of all of them, together with the collaboration of the most prestigious breeding companies, is their best guarantee.
The Company registers the first rose varieties for cut flower, materializing an idea was in force since the beginning of its foundation. Thus, in 2008, Plantas Continental introduces a portfolio composed of 4 varieties, including Malena® in honour of the local women where the Company is located.
Together with the development of new varieties of rose for cut flower, there will also be the diversification with fruit tree propagation taking advantage of the know-how acquired in the rose area, such as the olive or almond tree, as well as the clonation of forest trees with the introduction of the paulownia as bioenergetic investment.
During this decade, the company participates in a dozen research projects together with entities such as CDTI, the University of Malaga or the University of Cordoba. Thus, in 2012, Plantas Continental, SA would receive the CYTED-IBEROEKA “Luis Pieri” award for Technological Innovation for its “Fast Rose” project and, years later, the Innovative SME seal.
Continental Breeding® is created, a brand with which the company decides to highlight the distinction between the ornamental and fruit divisions. At the end of this decade there are already more than 25 commercial varieties of rose for cut flowers with presence in the most important production markets in the world, most of them being award-winning varieties at the trade fairs where they have been exhibited; thus: Cotton Candy® (Flowers 2012 Expo, Moscow), Pegasso® (IFTEX 2013, Nairobi), Mayra’s Rose® Pink (Proflora 2015, Bogota) or the “Best Breeder” (Agriflor 2016, Quito), among others.
In the fruit sector, the company is already one of the most important companies at the national level, setting itself appart from its competitors due to the scientific advances incorporated into its production. As a result, the first Vertires plants are sold on the market, a rootstock resistant to defoliant Verticilium, outcome of the biotechnological investigation carried out by the University of Cordoba and for which the company would receive the first prize for Technical Research at Expoliva (Jaen, 2017) reinforcing its commitment to R&D&i.
Amongst its most recent achievements is the obtaining of a new variety of olive tree under study whose name of the variety is still to be determined. Plantas Continental, SA also receives the distinction as Accredited Technological Knowledge Agent (ACTA); the research of new ornamental, fruit and biomass varieties has been its main activity since its foundation and, also, its pathway of the future.