In This Issue
Wyevale "Sale of the Century" enters the second stage
Neudorff take top prize as GIMA Award winners announced
Woodlodge voted Supplier of the Year
Picture Special of the glitzy GIMA Awards evening
Cheques for £4,000 presented to Greenfingers and Acorns charities
Tong Garden Centre awarded Job Creator of the Year title
Stax expands its own-brand offering by acquiring Groundsman Premium Brush range
Squire’s managers go back to the floor
GIMA judges award category win to Deco-Pak for ‘whimsical and charming’ birdboxes
Plant area managers and buyers reminded to sign up for Plant Area Forum
Glee workshop - How to be a successful exhibitor and identify the buying signs
LOFA make £10,000 donation to Greenfingers Charity
Hayes Garden World and Silverbirch Garden Centre set the gold standards in The Greatest Outdoor Leisure Sales Team Awards presented at Solex 2018
Supremo wins Best New Product Award at SOLEX
Bramblecrest win Best Stand at SOLEX
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GARDENA unveils new Ambassador Stores in four locations across the UK
Best plants to attract bees revealed, after gardeners’ app survey
RHS endorses The Posh Shed Company’s entire product line
RHS Annual Photographic Competition debuts winning photographs at the RHS London Plant and Art Fair
Gardeners see increase in invasive weeds and plants in spring 2018
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Wyevale "Sale of the Century" enters the second stage

After a week spent with numerous garden centres and suppliers at SOLEX and the GIMA Awards where there was much speculation about the Wyevale Garden Centres "Sale of the Century" GTN Xtra has now received confirmation that the process is moving onto the second stage this week.

 

A spokesperson for Wyevale Garden Centres said this morning: "We are delighted in the interest shown in Wyevale Garden Centres by a range of bidders for the company as a whole, smaller groups and individual sites. We are now entering the second stage of the sale where we will be providing further information to those bidders who have made it through this initial stage.”

 

At SOLEX there was so much speculation in the air that one senior industry figure commented that it was "like being at a drug dealers convention with people slipping away to have covert conversations but everyone knew what they were talking about." 

 

Judging from the conversations we had at SOLEX and the GIMA Awards there are some sites that have been bid for many times and there could be some surprise new garden centre owners at the end of the process.  

 

Suppliers will be looking forward to the next stage of the process moving swiftly so that interest shown by Wyevale buyers at SOLEX can be converted into firm orders.

 

If you have any comments to make about the Wyevale "Sale of the Century", please use the comments link below or e-mail: trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk

 

 

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