Sep 9, 2016
Aris Appoints New Green Leaf Plants Managing Director

Blair Hoey is joining Aris Horticulture as managing director for its Green Leaf Plants division. Based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Green Leaf Plants is a young plant supplier of perennials serving the U.S. and Canadian markets.

Hoey has a background in horticulture and perennial production with over 20 years’ experience in all aspects of supply chain management. This includes greenhouse production and operations management, with process improvement focus, of 500 acres of greenhouse and open-field production and planning of all crops for both the big-box, retail-finished regional market, as well as rooted young plants for the national network of wholesale growers.

Hoey has also worked as a new product development department manager and in sales, expanding into a senior leadership position organizing sales teams and providing direction for retail and grower divisions. He is a graduate of Oklahoma State University with a degree in agricultural and horticultural science.

Hoey and his wife, Karen, will be relocating to Pennsylvania.




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