Garden

Garden watering and spraying

Offering gardeners the most innovative and satisfying solutions. With its HOZELOCK, G.F., BERTHOUD, LASER and COOPER PEGLER brands, the EXEL Industries Group offers innovative and high-quality watering and plant protection solutions to gardeners and professionals alike.

The business

Accelerating urbanization means that consumers increasingly consider their garden, terrace or balcony as another separate living area; a place where they can also enjoy their gardening hobby or passion.

Given the increasingly unpredictable climate with alternating periods of drought and rain, digital technology, home automation and the growth of online sales are all drivers of growth for the plant watering and protection business.

In addition, with stricter European plant protection product regulations poised to shape the consumer market, the natural gardening solutions we offer are well positioned to boost sales of our products in Europe.

Strategy

The EXEL Industries Group has a four-pronged strategy for its garden watering and spraying activity:

  • focus our development efforts on the European market and emerging markets;
  • to be a leading provider of solutions alternatives to treatment;
  • accelerate our growth by using the digital revolution;
  • provide premium service to clients on all of our markets.

Key figures

€144m

revenue in 2022–2023

(Leisure scope)

 

13%

of total Group sales

(Leisure scope)

 

7

production sites

(Leisure scope)

 

662

permanent employees

(Leisure scope)

Learn more about our product families

We develop and offer comprehensive ranges of heater and strosing products, combining comfort and performance to meet the requirements of starting gardens as notified.

Product ranges
Hozelock offers the broadest range of products on the market in this category of products. Hozelock offers the broadest range of products on the market. Based on the know-how of our Tricoflex plant and the consumer innovation division, Hozelock’s bricks-and-mortar dog have unique and patented characteristics.
Today’s gardeners are seeking organic, natural and non-chemical solutions. Since 2012, we have continuously developed innovative solutions for natural gardening: thermal desherbers, rackers for house recons, kitchen composters, solution for making your pedals easily. We are in this pioneering European position in this product segment.
A clean, protected and ready-to-use pipe is possible thanks to intelligent storage systems. Forklifts and deviders improve life while reducing your garden’s headlines.
Pumps can be used on back or hand, so that they can deherbers or fertilise massives, potagers and others.
Re-agreement Agreements Hozelock’s agreements and connectors enable you to quickly and easily reissue your robinet, tuyal and accessories. Chez Hozelock’s lances and Pistolets, our speciality is to offer you the ideal accessory, which will meet your requirements in terms of cropping and external cleaning. Characteristics such as lockable and ropeways make it comfortable and even more pleasant for treasing sessions.”
Market
We market a comprehensive range of heaters and stainless steel products, combining comfort and performance in order to meet the demands of gardeners, via specialist garden networks (jardineries, agricultural farmers and supermarkets) and specialised website garden websites. Hozelock’s range of tree-proofing and fragrance products can also be found in major food surfaces within their outdoor radius.

INNOVATION

Platform innovation: The innovative

Platform innovation: The innovative solution launched in 2020, to have the right nozzle for the treatment to be carried out (weeding, insecticide/fungicide or DIY), will be deployed on the BERTHOUD brand in 2021 via a unique offer of the Elyte 8 ultramax multi-function sprayer.

 
 

Our brands

  • HOZELOCK has been designed by gardens for over 60 years and has specialised in the art of identifying and meeting the needs of garden workers. From the very beginning of our existence, our motivation has always been to develop both perfect and visual products that can also be combined to form a system. Our first product was the first deal for plastic piping in the world: Hoze-Lock.

  • COOPER PEGLER is the brand of pumps approved by professionals and tested over time.
    A robust and robust, COOPER PEGLER pioneers are reputed for their membrane-based technology.
    Membrane pumps have been used for decades to be the most sustainable, robust and precise: they are well suited to intensive applications, even under highly challenging conditions.

  • LASER Industrie, the expert in amulatory scaleising for professionals in all sectors, providing solutions to its customers by offering them a high-quality, comprehensive, robust and adaptable range to the most complex needs.
    Ultra-tech steels for exclusively industrial applications (building, public works, hygiene, livestock, food industry, etc.).

  • We market a comprehensive range of heaters and stainless steel products, combining comfort and performance in order to meet the demands of gardeners, via specialist garden networks (jardineries, agricultural farmers and supermarkets) and specialised website garden websites. HOZELOCK’s range of tree-proofing and fragrance products can also be found in major food surfaces within their outdoor radius.

  • Founded in 1966, GF is an Italian company, part of French group EXEL Industries since 2022. GF produces plastic articles for irrigation, garden maintenance and outdoor living. A quality and innovation driven company based on a flexible and efficient model, GF is present in more than 50 countries. Its range of RECO products is made of more than 70% recycled plastic material and includes a new production chain cycle more attentive to sustainability and to reducing CO2 emissions.

Our other activities

Agricultural spraying

Sugar beet harvesting

Industrial spraying

Technical hoses