In This Issue
Ten Steps to Sparkling Sales
Rising Star from Perrywood has a huge passion for plants
Kelkay paves the way to success
Stamp duty changes will help boost gardening sales say GIMA
Retailers reap handsome rewards from Stax Rebate Scheme
Gardenex to organise exhibitor groups at major trade shows in the US and Germany in 2015
Webbs provide festive chocolate treat for hospice children
Penguins, poinsettia and personalised decorations light up for Christmas sales
18 Days to Christmas - Are you The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Team?
Retailers buy into Gardman's tooling range
Sponsor Carol Paris & Friends (Two and Four Legged) as they run today for Greenfingers in the Santa Run
Deco-Pak steps up support for Forget-Me-Not
Wyevale Garden Centres celebrate Christmas with campaign to fund Marie Curie Nurses
Horticultural small business celebrated in National Advent Countdown
Gardening celebs get ready for 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz
Wisley visitors name their favourite New Guinea impatiens
The Quest for Christmas Greatness - Buy Your Tickets for The Greatest Christmas Party Here
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Landscape Manager Domestic - West Midlands
Restaurant Chef - Gloucestershire
Hard & Soft Landscapers - Kent
STV pledges another £1,000 to Greenfingers appeal
Learn how to achieve the impossible at GCA Conference
Protect plants this winter with Vitax products
New speakers announced for Contact 2015 - ‘Growing Opportunities’
Orders being taken now for HTA Packaging Waste WorkBook
Choice Marketing appoints Mr Fothergill's as major seed supplier
Love the Plot You’ve Got Regional Master classes
Vivid Arts products dominate GTN Bestsellers chart
Glee 2015 will be Monday to Wednesday
Twelve products re-enter Growing Media Bestsellers chart
Suttons Seeds announces a management buy out
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Ten Steps to Sparkling Sales
Maximise Profits with the Christmas Star



Make Christmas 2014 go ker-ching by taking note of Stars for Europe’s top tips guaranteed to pimp poinsettia sales… you’ve had the first five, so here come the next lot...
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Rising Star from Perrywood has a huge passion for plants




Cerys Williams has a huge passion for plants, and now she is a Rising Star from Perrywood Garden Centre who has applied the merchandising techniques learned in the Garden Centre Association Rising Stars Programme, sponsored by Westland Horticulture, to achieve phenomenal sales increases...





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Kelkay paves the way to success



Kelkay continue to build its business on the solid foundations of quality products and unrivalled service. The company recently doubled their field sales team in the South East and South West of England supported by Liam Walsh. Currently a 23 strong sales team now covers the UK and Ireland...

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Stamp duty changes will help boost gardening sales say GIMA
 


GIMA welcomed the stamp duty changes announced in the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement this week because an upturn in the housing market should boost demand for home and garden products...
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Retailers reap handsome rewards from Stax Rebate Scheme
 
Stax paid out over £1.2 million (ex VAT) in rebate to their independent retail customers in January 2014 – and all the signs for this coming January point to another record pay out...
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Gardenex to organise exhibitor groups at major trade shows in the US and Germany in 2015


Gardenex is to organise British pavilions at the National Hardware Show (NHS) in Las Vegas in May 2015 and at Spoga+gafa in Cologne at the end of August 2015...
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Webbs provide festive chocolate treat for hospice children
 
Young patients at Acorn’s Children’s Hospice in Worcester will enjoy a chirpy chocolate Christmas treat, thanks to long term supporters Webbs.
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Penguins, poinsettia and personalised decorations light up for Christmas sales
Penguins, poinsettia and personalised Christmas products are the key bestsellers as we run into the busiest weeks of the year, according to GTN Bestsellers data...



Pictured: Penquins at Fresh@Burcot Garden Centre.
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18 Days to Christmas - Are you The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Team?
Voting for The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Team is underway!


It's the most sought after Christmas award in the industry, The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Team, as it's the only award voted for by the people who matter most, your customers...
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Retailers buy into Gardman's tooling range
 
Gardman has hit the ground running with its new garden tool ranges launched at Glee, with nearly 500 gardening retailers having already signed up to the Moulton Mill and Gardener’s Mate brands...
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Sponsor Carol Paris & Friends (Two and Four Legged) as they run today for Greenfingers in the Santa Run

Greenfingers trustee and HTA CEO Carol Paris is leading the Christmas charge for Greenfingers this year by taking part in the London Santa Run today (Sunday 7th December) and will be taking along her two spaniels Max and Murphy...

Sponsor Carol and the Greenfingers Santa Run Team here
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Deco-Pak steps up support for Forget-Me-Not

Deco-Pak, suppliers of decorative aggregates for landscaping, building and general horticultural use, have found time from its busy expansion schedule to assist Greenfingers with further improvements and maintenance to the Forget-Me-Not hospice garden in Huddersfield...

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Wyevale Garden Centres celebrate Christmas with campaign to fund Marie Curie Nurses


Wyevale Garden Centres is aiming to raise significant funds for its national charity partner, Marie Curie, this Christmas...
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Horticultural small business celebrated in National Advent Countdown

The Business is GREAT campaign has created a festive calendar, featuring 24 diverse and innovative small businesses from across the country, including The Urban Botanist, which sells stylish terrariums across UK and beyond. The Urban Botanist gives a traditional idea a modern twist, bringing the concept of a terrarium – an indoor garden – into the 21st century...

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Gardening celebs get ready for 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz

Horticultural celebrities from TV and radio are busy recording questions for the 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day Quiz at the moment, and garden centres who sign up to take part in what is set to be the biggest and best quiz yet can take advantage of the ‘early bird’ entry fee of just £50 - if they sign up before 1st January 2015...
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Wisley visitors name their favourite New Guinea impatiens
More than 2,500 visitors to the RHS garden at Wisley have  named ‘Sun Harmony Compact Lavender’ and ‘SunPatiens Spreading Variegated Salmon’ as their favourite New Guinea impatiens cultivars...

  
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The Quest for Christmas Greatness - Buy Your Tickets for The Greatest Christmas Party Here
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