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Mothers Day bonanza as garden centre records are broken across the country - UPDATED
Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Days raise over £500,000
Fife garden centre purchased and refurbished
Grange expands Ultimate range following 2016 success
HSBC supports acquisition of Eastleigh garden centre
Keter to take over Stewart Plastics
Great start to the season...or is it a false dawn?
Selfie saves Norwich garden centre owners from Westminster carnage
Newshound finds Mr M has been busy recruiting 'experience'...
GIMA announces new Council at AGM
Whitehall Woodborough re-opens after re-fit in time for Mothers Day
Glee and the HTA confirm new three-year agreement
Overseas buyers ready to do business with UK suppliers
Garden leisure market grew 6% last year says new report
Partnership agreement between the Salon du Végétal fair, HTA National Plant Show and HTA Nursery Supply Show
Dutch Design in flowers at the Keukenhof opening
Plantarea Supervior / Manager (Berkshire)
Buyer Houseplants & Bulbs - Maternity cover (Berkshire)
Horticultural Buyer Specimens and Shrubs (Berkshire)
Sales Exec Horticultural Packaging (Essex)
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Plant feeds and lawncare dominate sales
UK warning to Brussels on over-zealous approach to pest products
Young veg plants are a week ahead of schedule
March growing media sales up 32% so far
spoga+gafa 2017: Excellent number of bookings
Garden Press Event moves to the Business Design Centre in 2018
Plant sales flourish
Introducing the Retail Lab @ Glee, in association with the HTA
Flemish pavilion confirmed for Glee 2017
Johnsons Lawn Seed ‘Campaign for Quality’: Size matters
Stewart Garden Schools Campaign grows by 75%
Pictures from the Greatest Christmas Gold-winning teams
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Commercial Kitchen unveils its initial exhibitor list for 2017
Situations Vacant
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spoga+gafa 2017: Excellent number of bookings
 
There are still around six months to go before spoga+gafa 2017 opens its doors, but it is already becoming apparent that the garden industry will almost be completely represented in Cologne from 3 to 5 September.

The early bird campaign already closed with record results on 28 October 2016. Now, a good six months before the opening of the fair, it remains on course for success: 94 percent of the planned surface is already booked. As such, the "half-time result" has achieved a 10 percent increase compared to the same period in the previous year.

Furthermore, with registrations from 50 countries, spoga+gafa is also underlining its position as the leading international garden trade fair.

Trade visitors from all over the world can thus look forward to the entire garden world in Cologne again from 3 to 5 September 2017. All four segments, 'garden living', 'garden creation & care', 'garden bbq' and 'garden unique', are not only represented in high numbers, the quality of the exhibitors is also already very impressive.

In the traditionally largest product segment, garden living, among others the following companies will present their new products: Deroma, edelman, elho, emsa, 4 Seasons, Hartman, Keter, Koopman International, Lechuza, MWH, Müsing and Scheurich.

Among others, the following exhibitors will be supporting the garden creation & care section with their products for the design and care of gardens, i.e. tools, garden machinery and further accessories: Biohort, Birchmeier, BM-Massivholz, Briggs & Stratton, Felco, FITT, Freund Victoria, Hozelock, Mesto and Stiga.

Of course, when addressing the theme garden, 'living green' certainly can't be missing: Comprising of among others Fleuroselect, Heidezüchtung Kurt Kramer, the Landgard Plants Ordering Days, Selecta One and zu Jeddeloh, there is going to be a comprehensive offer for the plant buyers at spoga+gafa 2017 too.

The largest coherent range of grill and BBQ products worldwide will also be available at the international garden fair in Cologne this year: The product segment garden bbq already boasts a strong alignment, represented among others by barbecook, Beef Eater, Big Green Egg, Broil Chef, Cadac, Char-Broil, Campingaz, DKB Outdoorchef, Enders Colsman, Landmann, Napoleon, Onward, Rösle and Weber-Stephen.

Exclusive presentations of garden furniture and shade products will be the centre of attention of the garden unique section. Among others Cane.line, Glatz, Houe, jankurtz, Nardi, sieger, Tuvatextil, Zebra and Zumsteg have already reserved space in the premium section.

The entire garden world - and even more awaits the trade visitors at spoga+gafa 2017, because in addition to a strong range of exhibits, the top trend themes of the garden industry will be restaged and made tangible at the largest garden fair in the world: The visitors have plenty to look forward to!

The spoga+gafa 2017 is open to trade visitors on 3 and 4 September from 09:00 a.m. to 06:00 p.m. and on 5 September from 09:00 a.m. to 05:00 p.m. Further information is available at www.spogagafa.com.

The Garden Day 2017 is open to end-users and trade visitors on 2 and 3 September from 09:00 a.m. to 06:00 p.m. Further information is available at www.tagdesgartens-koeln.com.
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