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Give your hard working staff a boost for the end of June and your customers have the chance to win £100 of National Garden Gift Vouchers too!
The Greatest Garden Centre Team - Your customers can vote on-line too
The Greatest Garden Centre Catering Teams can be voted for on-line
The Greatest Awards goes Potty
The Greatest summer awards and evening garden party will take place in association with SOLEX at the National Motorcycle Museum on 7th July at 7.15pm.
If catering and food are your growth areas our new Food Xtra will help you
SOLEX lay on free buses for GTN's Greatest Awards dinner
£100 of NGGV Vouchers for your customers - all they have to do is vote you The Greatest Catering Team 2014
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For the first time in years we’ve had busy garden centre trading right from the turn of the year.  Hooray!

Now, as we reach the half year, you can give your retail teams a boost by getting your customers to vote for them as one of The Greatest Teams in garden centre retailing.

Between now and mid-day on Monday June 30th your customers can vote in-store or on-line for your teams in The Greatest Garden Centre Team and The Greatest Garden Centre Catering Team categories.

All you have to do is download the pdfs linked below (it's free), put up a selection of A1, A3 and A4 posters, hand out the voting slips and collect them up prior to posting back to us for counting and recording after voting closes at mid-day on Monday 30th June 2014.  If you need more posters and voting slips you can print as many as you wish.

Then on Monday 7th July we will announce the winners at The Greatest Awards Summer Party, in the National Motorcycle Museum, opposite the NEC.

The winners will be the teams with the most votes, with separate awards for different sizes of centre and regional awards too.

What’s more, thanks to sponsorship from National Garden Gift Vouchers, there is a great incentive for your customers to vote.  Every vote with a valid e-mail address will be entered into a draw to win NGGV vouchers to the value of £100.  There will be five winners, one from each of five regions.

Over the years, customer voting has helped many garden centres gain an interesting insight into the positive ways their customers perceive them, and it also adds a spark to team morale.

And there’s no cost to you for being involved – all you have to do is get your staff talking to your customers!

We look forward to counting your votes, and who knows, if your team can get the most votes we’ll see you on stage at The Greatest Awards Party on July 7th!

Download all of the posters and voting cards pdfs from Dropbox (there is no cost) by using this link:  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/10z9oj7ecd9a9gg/AADipaJF6Ls9NRyTtf0ny3BJa 

If you have any problems accessing Dropbox, please call 07973 504214 or e-mail trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk 

Packs of posters and voting cards have been sent this week to centres who registered in advance.  There are a very limited number of printed packs available, please call The Greatest Awards Team on 01733 775700 if you'd like one - firts come first served.

  

The Greatest Garden Centre Team - Your customers can vote on-line too
This year we've created a link you can add into your e-mails, your social media and your websites for customer voting for The Greatest Garden Centre Team of the year...
This year we've created a link you can add into your e-mails, your social media and your websites for customer voting.

Just copy this link and paste it into your customer communications and customers will be able to vote on-line for The Greatest Garden Centre Team of the Year: 

http://tgcmc.newsweaver.co.uk/GTN/krqfbpl133o?a=6&p=47641440&t=27966603

link to voting page for The Greatest Garden Centre Team


The Greatest Garden Centre Catering Teams can be voted for on-line
This year we've created a link you can add into your e-mails, your social media and your websites for customer voting for The Greatest Garden Centre Catering Team...
This year we've created a link you can add into your e-mails, your social media and your websites for customer voting.

Just copy this link and paste it into your customer communications and customers will be able to vote on-line for The Greatest Garden Centre Catering Team of the Year:

http://tgcmc.newsweaver.co.uk/GTN/1kylf3j9wfv?a=6&p=47641441&t=27966603

link to voting form for The Greatest Catering Team

 
The Greatest Awards goes Potty
The Greatest Awards has joined up with the HTA's "It Starts with a Pot" campaign so that the winners on the "Top of the Pots" competition will be presented at The Greatest Awards Party ...
The Greatest Awards has joined up with the HTA's "It Starts with a Pot" campaign so that the winners on the "Top of the Pots" competition will be presented at The Greatest Awards Party on July 7th.

All of the entrants to the "Top of the Pots" competition announced by the HTa earlier this year will be visited by on of The Graetest Awrads Experts as they complete their rounds of meeting all 169 garden centre teams nominated in The Greatest Awards Summer 2014.

You can see some of the entries on the "It Starts with a Pot" facebook page.  Watch out for more issues of GTN Xtra with full coverage of "Top of the Pots."
 
The Greatest summer awards and evening garden party will take place in association with SOLEX at the National Motorcycle Museum on 7th July at 7.15pm.
Reward your team after a busy day at SOLEX and rub shoulders with The Greatest Garden Centre teams in the business...



The Greatest summer awards and evening garden party will take place in association with SOLEX at the National Motorcycle Museum on 7th July at 7.15pm.

Reward your team after a busy day at SOLEX and rub shoulders with The Greatest Garden Centre teams in the business.

Included in the ticket price is a pre-dinner drinks reception, a three course meal with wine, coffee and mints and the prestigious awards ceremony, followed by dancing to our live band.

Back by popular demand after their success at the Greatest Christmas Awards, The Rockits are the resident band from the Cavern Club in Liverpool.

TicketsPriceTotal to payPer person ex VAT
Single£85 + VAT£102.00£85.00
3£240 + VAT£288.00£80.00
5£375 + VAT£450.00£75.00
Table of 10£700 + VAT£840.00£70.00

Dress code is smart casual

Book early to avoid disappointment, call 01733 775700 or book on line using the Buy Now link below:

Tickets
If catering and food are your growth areas our new Food Xtra will help you
To see our NEW GTN Food Xtra e-mail newsletter...
 
SOLEX lay on free buses for GTN's Greatest Awards dinner
SOLEX are to provide FREE buses from eight hotels around the NEC for The Greatest Awards dinner on 7 July...




SOLEX are to provide free buses from local hotels for visitors to GTN’s Greatest Awards, to be held on the evening of Monday 7th July at the National Motorcycle Museum (near the NEC) during the SOLEX trade show.

Details of routes have now been confirmed. Pick-ups will be available from the following hotels:








  • Crowne Plaza
  • Metropole
  • Premier Inn
  • Holiday Inn Express
  • Manor Park
  • Arden
  • IBIS
  • Novotel

The Greatest Awards are in association with SOLEX and sponsored by Weber, LG Outdoor, Brother and National Garden Gift Vouchers.

                

         

To book your tickets for The Greatest Awards Party, call 01733 775700.

 


National Garden Gift Vouchers have joined forces with The Greatest Awards to help inspire your customers to vote for your catering teams in the race to be The Greatest Garden Centre Catering Team of the Year.

This summer there are FIVE prizes of National Garden Gift Vouchers worth £100 to be won, with the winners being drawn from completed voting forms with a valid e-mail address.  One from each of five regions as set up by The Greatest Awards.

All your customers have to do is complete a voting form and post them in a collection box in-store, or post to us.  We count all the votes after the closing date of Monday 30th June and announce the winners at The Greatest Awards Party on the evening of Monday 7th July.

And it's really simple for your garden centre restauarnt or coffee shop team to take part.  Just download and print out the posters and voting postcards as linked below and then encourage your colleagues to ask for votes.  If you registered for The Greatest Awards earlier this year you'll also receive a pack of posters and voting cards in the post early next week.  If you didn't register but would like a pack in the post please e-mail trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk 

The winning customers will be selected from all the votes, grouped into 5 regions.  

The Greatest Garden Centre Catering Teams will be the teams with the most votes in each of the regions with seperate awards for different size of catering teams.  It's only the opinions of your customers that count in this category!

So every catering team has a real chance to win.

Go on, download the posters and voting postcard pdfs today and get your customers involved.  You'll be surprised at the wonderful things they say about your catering team.  It's a great market research exercise as well as a great team motivator.

The Greatest Catering Team Poster and Voting Postcard Downloads

The Greatest Catering Team - Vote For Us - A4 Poster - No Crop Marks

The Greatest Catering Team - Vote For Us - A4 Poster - With Crop Marks

The Greatest Catering Team - Voting Postcard - Front

The Greatest Awards - Voting Postcard - Back

Or you can download from this dropbox link:  https://www.dropbox.com/sh/10z9oj7ecd9a9gg/AADipaJF6Ls9NRyTtf0ny3BJa 

If you have any problems accessing the pdf files please e-mail trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk or call 07973 504214


 

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