In This Issue
Dobbies Christmas trading up by 44%
Wow – Christmas product sales break all records
Best year on record for garden centre volume sales
New name for Bord na Mona retail in UK
Bird food company fined £50k over accident that led to finger amputations
Ex-Wyevale GCs ops chief joins digital commerce specialist JGOO to help promote UK goods to Chinese
Mr Fothergill's trial ground awarded Fleuroselect status
Gardman Crest - Investing for the future and ready for business in the new year
Dobbies to close its smallest centre near Dunfermline
Thetford GC plans crazy golf to attract families
Notcutts adds 300-seater restaurant at Ditchling
Reimagine Green Retail at TREx 2020 in Holland
Students offered prospect of 'dream internship' in North America
10 plants to vie for aded-value award at IPM Essen
2020 New Varieties from David Austin
Squire's invites customers to chatter and natter
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Gardening, horticultural and pet industries pay tribute to much-loved Theresa Swann
First upturn for garden product sales since 2014
Chris Schofield joins Infinity Christmas Trees
Fewer plant sales despite more ‘normal’ weather
Records broken for core growing activity
2019 was great year for Veg-2-Gro sales
Wyevale GC HQ moves from Syon Park
Dobbies to drop peat by 2021
Wild Bird Care sales show signs of recovery
Houseplants, gifts and Christmas showed strong growth in November says HTA
The best of last week's
2019 ends 4.2% up on 2018 - A new record year for GTN Bestsellers Volume sales analysis
Gardman Crest ready to deliver you growth in 2020
New General Manager at garden centre
AMES UK report a record pre-season
Wentworth Garden Centre blown away by WinRetail system
Out with the old and in with the new at LOFA
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Dobbies Christmas trading up by 44%

Dobbies have announced their 2019 Christmas trading update today which reveals a like for like 6% increase on 2018 and 9% higher than 2017...

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Wow – Christmas product sales break all records

Wow, what a Christmas for garden centres. The GTN Bestsellers Top 50 Chart volume sales were up by 12.7% on 2018 and 7.3% ahead of the previous best set in 2017...

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Best year on record for garden centre volume sales

While the rest of UK retail, via the BRC, was reporting the worst trading for November and December on record with total sales down 0.9% compared with the same period in 2018, garden centres were trading at all time highs, according to GTN Bestsellers Epos data analysis...

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New name for Bord na Mona retail in UK

 

 

 

The UK retail arm of Bord na Mona is to be re-named The Greener Gardening Company from 1 February...

 

Left: the company's new Happy Compost brand.

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Bird food company fined £50k over accident that led to finger amputations

CJ Wilbird Foods has been fined £50,000 after an employee suffered life changing injuries when his hand was trapped in an unguarded rotary valve...

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Ex-Wyevale GCs ops chief joins digital commerce specialist JGOO to help promote UK goods to Chinese

 

 

Former Wyevale Garden Centres operation s director David Anderson has joined JGOO, the digital commerce specialist, as a non-executive director, to support the company’s strong growth in the UK retail sector.

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Mr Fothergill's trial ground awarded Fleuroselect status

The trial ground at Mr Fothergill’s Seeds HQ in Suffolk has been selected as a trial site for Fleuroselect, the international organisation for the ornamental plants industry...

 

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Gardman Crest - Investing for the future and ready for business in the new year

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“We've gone through the process of rebuilding and we're very much ready for business in the new year...”

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Dobbies to close its smallest centre near Dunfermline
27 jobs at risk as group ups its focus on destination retailing

The smallest garden centre in the Dobbies chain, Dalgety Bay near Dunfermline, is to close in February as the group boosts its focus on destination retailing...

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Thetford GC plans crazy golf to attract families

Thetford Garden Centre is planning to introduce adventure crazy golf in a bid to make the business more family orientated...

 

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Notcutts adds 300-seater restaurant at Ditchling

 

 

Notcutts has opened the group’s largest restaurant – a 300-seater at its Ditchling Garden Pride outlet in East Sussex...

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Reimagine Green Retail at TREx 2020 in Holland

On 12 and 13 February 2020, The Garden Retail Experience (TREx) will take place in Holland...

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Students offered prospect of 'dream internship' in North America

The David Colegrave Foundation is offering current or recent UK horticulture students the chance to experience production horticulture in the United States or Canada through a scholarship award...

 

Above: 2018 scholarship winner James Crawford, whose internship was in the US.

 

 

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10 plants to vie for aded-value award at IPM Essen

Ten plants have been nominated for the Show Your Colours Award at this month’s IPM 2020 trade show at Essen...

 

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2020 New Varieties from David Austin
Literary collection blooms with arrival of celebrated classics in 2020

David Austin Roses is delighted to announce the introduction of two wonderful new characters to its collection of fine, British grown English Roses...

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Squire's invites customers to chatter and natter

For customers who find January and February can be lonely months, Squire’s Garden Centres have ‘Chatter & Natter’ tables in all of their Café Bars.

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