In This Issue
Cultivation Street LAUNCHES Illumination Street
Christmas and indoor gardening beat the rain
Bumper week for Christmas product sales
Harnessing the Power of Social at the HTA Marketing Forum
Customers source plants using latest technology
Tom Chambers Wild Bird Care continues to fly
Environment Minister to address Cultivating Retail audience
Christmas unveiled at Bents Garden & Home
Vitax launches additions to key brands for 2020
Rockin Pebbles rock the nation as Deco-Pak helps retailers to expand the growing play, hobby and gift categories
RHS endorses Plankbridge shepherd’s huts
AQUA 2019 brings out the superlatives
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Garden products maintain 5% growth
Wet weather effects growing activity
Plant sales take a hit
How can environmental solutions & sustainable applications advance commercial horticulture?
Kyle joins the Plant Health Professional Register
The best of last week's
Blue Diamond reports record first half profits of £7.6m
Woodlodge win Choice Marketing Sundries Supplier of the Year Award - UPDATED - More photos added
Nursery spearheads broadband rollout to remote areas
Evergreen Garden Care launches new UK website
Garden Centre Photo Tours
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Cultivation Street LAUNCHES Illumination Street

The run-up to Christmas this year sees the launch of Illumination Street, a national campaign to brighten up the streets of Britain with Christmas cheer that will encourage more customers to visit garden centres...

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Christmas and indoor gardening beat the rain
GTN Bestsellers analysis

Even though the wet weather of last week and the weekend deterred many from outside gardening activities, Christmas and indoor gardening had a great week which meant overall garden centre sales volumes, according to the GTN Bestellers All Epos Products index was up by 3% year on year and stays up 3% year to date.

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Bumper week for Christmas product sales
 

A bumper week for Christmas puts our GTN Bestsellers Top 50 Christmas products index at 8.3% up year on year after the first three weeks of the garden centre Christmas season...

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Harnessing the Power of Social at the HTA Marketing Forum

The importance of storytelling and the need to be authentic in your social conversations were just two of the key points made at the HTA Marketing Forum which took place at Horticulture House, Chilton, on Wednesday...

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Customers source plants using latest technology
 

Gardeners are now more likely to use the latest technology to source plants for their plots before they visit their nearest garden centre but also when they are in-store too...

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Tom Chambers Wild Bird Care continues to fly

 

This season has been an exciting time for Tom Chambers with sales continuing to grow throughout every part of their bird care range. On the back of such a successful year, the launch of the 2020 collection has plenty of new innovative products, helping to build on this success...

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Environment Minister to address Cultivating Retail audience
 

Rebecca Pow MP, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) Parliamentary Under-Secretary for the Environment, will address the garden industry at the Cultivating Retail conference on 19 November at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham...

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Christmas unveiled at Bents Garden & Home

 

Christmas at Bents has been kept strictly under wraps for the past ten weeks, but on Wednesday the wait was over and this year’s themed displays were unveiled...

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Vitax launches additions to key brands for 2020

As the demand for specialist products continues to thrive, Vitax will add to its key brands for 2020 as customers look for specific solution-solving products...

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Rockin Pebbles rock the nation as Deco-Pak helps retailers to expand the growing play, hobby and gift categories

With concern escalating over the amount of time that children spend staring at phone and computer screens, Deco-Pak is leading the way in helping retailers to provide innovative solutions that encourage kids to engage in fun pursuits that reconnect with the natural world...

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RHS endorses Plankbridge shepherd’s huts

 

The Royal Horticultural Society has announced its endorsement of the entire range of Plankbridge shepherd’s huts – multi-purpose living spaces based closely on the proportions of original Victorian shepherd's huts...

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AQUA 2019 brings out the superlatives

 

The superlatives flowed thick and fast after the two-day AQUA 2019, and among the words being used to describe the event were ‘excellent’, ‘innovative’ and ‘fantastic’...

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