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Business as usual at the Old Railway Line Garden Centre after sickness outbreak on Mother's Day
Doubt over new £60m garden centre and retail complex
Toys to gardening: Wyevale's new CEO starts on Monday
Mother’s Day provides a good boost to overall sales
Get involved with Garden Re-Leaf Day on Friday
Prizes worth £1,500 in Monkton Elm's Garden Re-Leaf raffle
24-hour 'Plant-athon' being staged at Squire's
Thompson & Morgan pays record amount for single seed
Bord na Móna UK expands customer services
You'll be full of beans - and zinnias - in 2017
Town & Country launches schools competition
EU postpones re-approval of glyphosate after objections from four states
This week is going to be difficult - but I'm determined to get there
Strictly Come Planting for the Klondyke Group
New Business Manager, Glee
Junior Buyer: Garden Care
Garden Centre Supervisor
Assistant Shop Manager
National Sales Manager Amenity and Landscaping Sector
Customer Service Assistant
Plant Area Manager (Full time, including alternate weekends)
Garden Centre Assistant Manager
Bedding Department Head (Full time, including alternate weekends)
Grounds Maintenance Team Leader / Supervisor
Plant Area Sales Assistant (Full time, including alternate weekends)
Area Sales Manager / Garden Centre & DIY
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Lighting shines brightly for garden product sales
Scotts Miracle-Gro Seed Pod makes its Veg-2-Gro debut
Growing media sales witness a slow down
Linked sales from Kent & Stowe to increase consumer spend
Fallen Fruits set to open Van Hage giftware display
Funeral service of Phil Kimberley
Kelkay supply essential pumps and lights for water features
Commemorative tree planted for Poundbury residents
Pimp Up Your Roundup is back for 2016
Pictures from The Greatest Christmas Gold-winning Teams
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
KitchenPod helps Frosts to improve café performance
Drinks firm offers centres Garden Re-Leaf help
Situations Vacant
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Salary: Excellent
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Bord na Móna UK expands customer services


The continuing success of Bord na Móna Growise, the new single brand of peat to peat-free growing media and soil improvers, has now led to an expansion in the customer services department at BNM UK’s head office.

After the successful launch at GLEE 2015, the company has recruited Mandy Smith and Justine Kemp as customer service advisers. They join the team at The Forge, Rooksbridge, Somerset, which Bord na Móna UK opened last year as its base for the UK sales, marketing and customer services, liaising with production and distribution facilities in both the UK mainland and Ireland.

Mandy worked previously for Cadbury Garden & Leisure, now part of Wyevale Garden Centres Group, while Justine worked at Urban Planters, the supplier of plant-related products to offices and homes.

Sales manager Jason Pike explained: “UK sales of Bord na Móna Growise continue to ramp year on year.  We anticipated a great take up on the new range and we continue to build our UK stock holding accordingly.  Now we are adding to our sales and customer services capacity to keep pace with our customers’ demands.”

The new Bord na Móna Growise range combines distinctive colour-coded packaging with new POS boards, new literature and a new website. 

Jason continued: “The investment that has gone into the new brand is all about ensuring that the garden retail customer is well supported on and off line, in media and at point of sale. 

"The overall message of our best in class peat to peat-free proposition backed by security of supply. Our mission is to ensure the consumer can buy the very best performing product whatever the task in hand.”

Bord na Móna UK trades peat–reduced and peat-free growing media and soil improvers through garden centres nationally and is the largest own brand supplier of compost and bark in the UK.

It is part of Bord na Móna plc, which specialises in eco-fuels, growing media, recycling, resource recovery and renewable energy.
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