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Revealed: The Top 100 Most-Read Stories of 2013
The changes of 2013 will reverberate through 2014...
Record year for 'concessions' within garden centres
Who called it right for this year?
Floods force Winnersh Garden Centre to close over festive period
Proposed new garden centre would create 300 jobs
Sponsors sought for sea front challenge
Council row over proposed £6m Next Home and Garden Store
GIMA announces dates of Awards and Golf Day
GCA E-learning modules show how to sell Christmas trees
The power of GTN Bestsellers' insider knowledge
Mr Fothergill's to back RHS GYO campaign for third year
Buy your tickets for GTN's Greatest Christmas Party
The winners of The Greatest Christmas Awards 2013 will be announced next Sunday
Hellebore is plant of the month
New deals on Gardman’s No Mess Seed Mix
Award success for Huddersfield-based landscapers
Garden centres invited to compete for Worrall Cup
Cause of Blooms Garden Centre blaze unknown
More pictures of Garden Centre Christmas displays than have ever been published before
Kings to donate poppy proceeds to charities
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The winners of The Greatest Christmas Awards 2013 will be announced next Sunday
After visits to over 200 garden centre Christmas teams and counting of thousands of customer votes the results of The Greatest Christmas Awards for 2013 are very nearly ready to be announced.

The awards will be presented at The Greatest Awards Christmas Party, next Sunday evening, 12th January, in the Majestic Hotel Harrogate.

We look forward to seeing you at the party.

Buy your tickets on-line here
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Revealed: The Top 100 Most-Read Stories of 2013


It has been a momentus year for the industry with the garden centre landscape changing almost weekly. As a result there have been plenty of stories – a staggering 2,700 in total – for GTN Xtra to report on, and it's hardly surprising to discover that the most-read stories have involved people changing jobs and garden centres changing hands...
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The changes of 2013 will reverberate through 2014...


What mattered most in 2013 and how will 2014 pan out? Leading industry figures have been polishing the crystal ball...
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The winners of The Greatest Christmas Awards 2013 will be announced next Sunday
After visits to over 200 garden centre Christmas teams and counting of thousands of customer votes the results of The Greatest Christmas Awards for 2013 are very nearly ready to be announced.

The awards will be presented at The Greatest Awards Christmas Party, next Sunday evening, 12th January, in the Majestic Hotel Harrogate.

We look forward to seeing you at the party.

Buy your tickets on-line here
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Record year for 'concessions' within garden centres


Leading garden centre concession company First Franchise claim 2013 was a record year for the business...
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Who called it right for this year?

Who got it right at the start of 2013? Crystal-ball gazing is a notoriously high-risk activity and many hedge their bets rather than commit to a full-blooded prediction – so we thought we would re-visit the New Year predictions from the 2013 New Year Special  issue of GTN Xtra to see how they panned out...
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Floods force Winnersh Garden Centre to close over festive period


Winnersh Garden Centre in Reading was forced to close after flooding left the premises under several feet of water over the Christmas and New Year period...
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Proposed new garden centre would create 300 jobs


Plans for a massive new garden centre, which could create 300 new jobs, have been submitted to Pendle Council in Lancashire.
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Sponsors sought for sea front challenge

Organisers of the GCA Conference Greenfingers Challenge in January are seeking more sponsors in a bid to set a new fund-raising record...
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The winners of The Greatest Christmas Awards 2013 will be announced next Sunday
After visits to over 200 garden centre Christmas teams and counting of thousands of customer votes the results of The Greatest Christmas Awards for 2013 are very nearly ready to be announced.

The awards will be presented at The Greatest Awards Christmas Party, next Sunday evening, 12th January, in the Majestic Hotel Harrogate.

We look forward to seeing you at the party.

Buy your tickets on-line here
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Council row over proposed £6m Next Home and Garden Store


A proposed £6m Next Home and Garden Store on the outskirts of Norwich has set two councils at loggerheads over whether it would set a precedent and harm the city centre by luring away shoppers...
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GIMA announces dates of Awards and Golf Day
 
GIMA has announced the dates and venues of its Gala Dinner & Awards and its Golf Day for 2014...
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GCA E-learning modules show how to sell Christmas trees








The GCA added Christmas tree modules to its e-learning initiative just in time for the festive season...
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The power of GTN Bestsellers' insider knowledge
 
GTN Bestsellers is the leading publication when it comes to reporting on gardening product sales trends...but thanks to its insider knowledge it's also great for predicting the bestsellers of tomorrow...
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Mr Fothergill's to back RHS GYO campaign for third year
Mr Fothergill's Seeds is to continue its sponsorship of the RHS Grow Your Own campaign for a third year...

Above: John Fothergill
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Buy your tickets for GTN's Greatest Christmas Party
 
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Tickets are selling fast for The Greatest Christmas Awards Party on Sunday, January 12, 2014 at the Majestic Hotel in Harrogate...so make sure you don't miss out!
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