The creativity of the directors and agents in Italy and France lead to a solution. The company decided to exchange in raw materials. The company offered Italian clients flower bulbs and in exchange received goldfish, seeds and hand gloves for example.

Current business
Fred. de Meulder has grown into one of the largest flower bulb exporting companies in the flower bulb region. Over the past two decades it has gone into three major partnerships. First of all in 1989, Fred. de Meulder joint together with Jacob L. van Reisen which has been a fruitful collaboration and strengthen the company’s position in France and Germany.
The second partnership took place in 2001 by taking over van Til, an export company specialised in selling lilies. That same year the company also closed a deal with Stuifbergen Blomsterlok. This is a Swedish company selling packaged flower bulbs to Swedish garden centres, municipalities and growers.