quite low, about 50 landscape companies had to close last yearredknight_jas wrote:hi, i would like to enquire on people who are doing landscape business in singapore. any kind, any type. what is the market like now?
is there potential in this field?
Consider the area. Were you living in my hometown of Houston, Texas, most everyone would be in a single family dwelling with at least some yard, and many with a lot of yard, lawn, flower beds, and trees.redknight_jas wrote:thanks for your serious reply!
im more in the landscape architecture design field. however, right now, im serving my intern in some company who is intending to go into landscape MAINTENANCE division. what more, they only plan to go into private residential market, making the expansion even more narrow.
in which, i know nothing about those technical part. i study design, not maintenance. not even business. i seriously need to get help from people in this field.
also, from my recent research, indeed, this field is pretty small. many companies are doing designing, consulting and maintenance, not just pure maintenance.
i wanted to . but i dont have any source other than the internet. books and references, yeah, i wanted to. but my boss is not giving me any freedom to do that. apparently, i can only stay at my office from 8am to 5.30pm, do internet sourcing and then transfer my findings into report.amberina wrote:right, maintenance is boring and a step back.
i dont know what's on job market though. why wont you check it out?
yup. i did my site survey. its really small. even people like me who is an outsider in business, knows that this is a small market. not to say that singaporeans are just far too busy to tend their own yards. they simply hire those one-man gardeners to do the job, which is more than enough.Strong Eagle wrote:Consider the area. Were you living in my hometown of Houston, Texas, most everyone would be in a single family dwelling with at least some yard, and many with a lot of yard, lawn, flower beds, and trees.redknight_jas wrote:thanks for your serious reply!
im more in the landscape architecture design field. however, right now, im serving my intern in some company who is intending to go into landscape MAINTENANCE division. what more, they only plan to go into private residential market, making the expansion even more narrow.
in which, i know nothing about those technical part. i study design, not maintenance. not even business. i seriously need to get help from people in this field.
also, from my recent research, indeed, this field is pretty small. many companies are doing designing, consulting and maintenance, not just pure maintenance.
Now drop into Singapore. 70 percent of the population lives in HDB flats. A large portion lives in private condos and flats. The rest live in semi-detached or row houses with very tiny yards. There are really only a handful of properties with decent size land areas that really need landscaping design services.
So, I suppose you could approach HDB councils or private apartment management about taking on landscaping and design, competing against better known entities. Or maybe you can sell some kind of 'yard package' to those living in semi-detached homes.
It is a very small market here.
not entirely true...redknight_jas wrote:not to say that singaporeans are just far too busy to tend their own yards. they simply hire those one-man gardeners to do the job, which is more than enough.
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