HOW WE WORK
As we have our roots in the flower industry, our activities mainly focus on the cooperation with flower breeding companies. The clients of these breeding companies are professional flower producers – companies that produce cut flowers & pot plants in industrial scales.
Many professional flower producers are able to (self-)propagate or source young plants of many needed crops locally or even at own facilities, for instance cut-rose young plants, as soon as replantings (old varieties in use being replanted) and new plantings (new varieties to be planted) are scheduled. In most cases these replantigs / new plantings are caused by the naturally limited life cycle of a plant (for instance, the life cycle of a cut-rose young plant ends after around five years). In some cases new plantings are caused by commercial means, as cut flowers of certain varieties might not sell very well on the market (for instance, because the color or flower-shape becomes out of fashion). For every new planting or replanitng the flower producer has to pay licence fees to the variety owner (= breeding companies).
Many world-leading flower breeding companies – almost all of them are located in the EU – often struggle with the proper collecting of due licence fees for their varieties, in particular from growers with self-propagation activities in many countries outside the EU.
BILAT LICENCE SOLUTIONS offers to breeders from the flower- and agriculture-sector to source out challenging licence collecting activities and to mandate our company to take care that transnationally valid licence / payment contracts are being concluded and the licence fees for selfpropagated plants / varieties are being paid by producers located outside the EU.
Based on the official licence fee per variety and plant, defined by each breeding company, BILAT LICENCE SOLUTION receives an agreed commission on the licence per plant from the breeder (withhold after collection = performance fee only), fixed in the mandate agreement with the breeder.
TO SUM IT UP
For breeding companies we act as collecting solution to efficiently collect due licence fees from cut flower producers around the globe - for cut flower producers we act as payment solution to efficiently pay due licence fees to involved breeding companies.