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How to pimp poinsettia sales: top tips for Garden Centres
Blue Diamond offer 'confidential talks' in quest for growth
Gardman exploring sale options
Caulders take over Erskine centre at Paisley
The Quest for Christmas Greatness
Seriously Spooky Sales at Chessington
Record numbers for NGGV design-a-card contest
If catering and food are your growth areas our new Food Xtra will help you
Is the weather about to turn and give us a boost in sales?
The pulling power of reindeer... and GTN Xtra
Planteria Manager
Garden Care Team Leader - Hertfordshire
Assistant Centre Manager
Nursery Site Manager - West Sussex
Garden Centre Manager - Hampshire
E-Commerce Marketing Executive - Worcestershire
Cheers! Christmas beer hits the Top 50
Are you ready for those winter sales?
Greasebands, pot feet and garden storage drive bestsellers volumes
Forest Garden invests in additional sawmill and treatment facilities
Laura's Atlantic Giant - Mr Fothergill's heaviest
Soil is tops - sales volumes up 83% on same week last year
Kelkay impresses retail buyers at Glee 2014
Opportunities is theme for GIMA day conference
Bord na Mona in €1.5 million environmental development
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How to pimp poinsettia sales: top tips for Garden Centres













Whichever way you look at it there's oodles of time to make sure that you are ready and raring to go for Christmas 2014 which, according to Stars for Europe, officially kicks off for garden centres on Friday December 12 - International Poinsettia Day...

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Blue Diamond offer 'confidential talks' in quest for growth
Following last week’s acquisition of Trelawney  Garden Centre in Cornwall, Blue Diamond have re-affirmed their growth ambitions with an offer of confidential discussions for owners considering selling up or leasing their sites...
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Gardman exploring sale options








A number of private equity firms are believed to be showing interest in Gardman following the news that the company’s curent owners are actively exploring a sale, but CEO Stewart Hainsworth (left) says it's early days...
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Caulders take over Erskine centre at Paisley
Caulders Garden Centres take over Erskine Garden Centre in Paisley, just outside Glasgow, today. It is their fourth centre...

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The Quest for Christmas Greatness
 
The quest for The Greatest Christmas teams is on.  The expert team of judges are now out and about visiting all of the teams nominated in this years The Greatest Christmas Awards.  You’ll find out who are The Greatest at Christmas this year by joining us at the first awards event of 2015, The Greatest Christmas Awards Christmas Party...

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Seriously Spooky Sales at Chessington


Halloween proved a seriously spooky hit at Chessington Garden Centre this half term week.  On Halloween itself the centre was full of children and parents taking part in a number of Spooky events including 300 children arriving at 2:00pm for a Spooky Tea...
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Record numbers for NGGV design-a-card contest











The HTA’s National Garden Gift Voucher Design a Christmas Card Competition attracted a record number of entries this year...
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If catering and food are your growth areas our new Food Xtra will help you
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Is the weather about to turn and give us a boost in sales?



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The pulling power of reindeer... and GTN Xtra


"These reindeer will help me get 200 people in my garden centre at 9:00 am every Saturday and Sunday.  I hope they are well trained..."
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