Mr Stan Palmer
1982
Despite the retirement of Mr Palmer from active association with the business, the family name will live on. Historically the Palmers input into the industry had been tremendous not only in connection with apprenticeship matters where Mr Stan Palmer had always been very involved in people and training of apprentices for higher qualifications, but also in connection with their flare for marketing, resulting in the establishment at Glen Eden of one of the most up to date and efficient garden centres in the Southern Hemisphere.
Mr Palmer's contribution would be there for the next one hundred years and would serve to set standards for the whole industry.