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David's is No.5 for Home & Garden group
Wyevale expect 12 million customers to visit their 141 stores this Christmas
£2.5m expansion plan at Borders garden centre
Key Fiskars appointments will aid UK growth push
It has been a record Autumn for growing media sales
Town & Country’s new website goes live
Nominate your teams for The Greatest Christmas Awards 2014
Great customer experience starts with the staff...
Shout about horticulture, delegates urged
What challenges does the future hold?
Soil scientist awarded HTA's Pearson Memorial Medal
Dice with discounts at new-look Minster showroom
If catering and food are your growth areas our new Food Xtra will help you
£1m TV campaign for new Growing Success GrowQube
Join Carol on the Santa Run
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Forest aims to double Welsh sawmill output for fencing stockpile
Ball Colegrave MD joins HTA board
Six years and counting for Wyevale Nurseries' Italian job
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Tree Spinner tops Christmas chart while canvas prints still sell well
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David's is No.5 for Home & Garden group

David's Nurseries near Worcester has become the Home & Garden Group’s fifth outlet...
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Wyevale expect 12 million customers to visit their 141 stores this Christmas


With Christmas only 10 weeks away, 141 Wyevale Garden Centres are this week launching their Christmas ranges, with 2.5 million gifts, home and outdoor decorations hitting the shelves in anticipation of the 12 million customers nationwide expected between now and the big day...
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£2.5m expansion plan at Borders garden centre
Milestone Garden & Leisure at Newtown St Boswells in Roxburghshire has applied for planning permission to build nine new retail units and a gym...
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Key Fiskars appointments will aid UK growth push







Fiskars UK  have announced two key marketing appointments designed to boost the company's growth plans...
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It has been a record Autumn for growing media sales


Analysis of the total sales volumes for growing media products appearing in the weekly GTN Bestsellers Top 50 chart shows that the last six weeks have seen the most core gardening activity over the past six years..
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Town & Country’s new website goes live

It has been under development for a number of months, and its eye-catching new design kept a closely guarded secret. Now Town & Country’s new website is live, bringing a sleek and stylish new look to www.townandco.com, with a host of additional features, striking imagery and informative copy. 
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Nominate your teams for The Greatest Christmas Awards 2014
It’s that time of the year again. As you complete your Christmas Displays and start selling your Christmas events, now is the moment to nominate your teams in The Greatest Christmas Awards...
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Great customer experience starts with the staff...


HTA conference keynote speaker Andrew MacMillan (right), who spent 28 years with the John Lewis Partnership, offered insights into how JL has developed its much-admired branded customer experience...
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Shout about horticulture, delegates urged
 
Collaboration and cooperation for the good of the horticulture industry was a key theme at this week’s HTA Garden Futures Conference in London...
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What challenges does the future hold?


The challenges ahead include volatile weather, declining home ownership and keeping staff happy and engaged, HTA conference delegates were told...
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Soil scientist awarded HTA's Pearson Memorial Medal
Soil scientist and growing media expert Neil Bragg has been awarded the HTA Pearson Memorial Medal for his outstanding commitment to the horticultural industry...
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Dice with discounts at new-look Minster showroom







Trade buyers who make an appointment to visit Minster’s refurbished showroom at Southwell, Notts, have been offered significant discounts for goods collected and paid for on the day...
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£1m TV campaign for new Growing Success GrowQube
 

William Sinclair Horticulture has announced the launch, with a £1m TV campaign, of the new Growing Success GrowQube - an easy to carry, easy to use deep container with a unique compost mix which in trials has produced a 50% greater tomato yield than plants raised in conventional growbags...
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Join Carol on the Santa Run

Greenfingers Trustee and CEO of The HTA, Carol Paris, is looking for “Santa’s Helpers” to join her in the 2014 Santa Run to raise money for Greenfingers...
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