In This Issue
Glencrest Seatex sponsor The Greatest Outdoor Leisure Sales Team Awards
HTA Study Tour arrives in Koln for spoga+gafa
Team Gardman - Growing with Confidence as they prepare for Glee
A better than average August for garden centre sales
Hillview 5 years on and ready for further growth
Bents’ Cook Shop team leader shortlisted in housewares awards
Bunnings to shed light on UK strategy at BHETA Forum
HTA's David Denny completes Channel swim to raise £2500+ for charity
Pennells veteran retires after 53 years service
For all the latest Glee news sign up to Glee Daily News
Prime-time airing for flower market documentary on Channel 4 on Monday
Plants that can charge a mobile is winning idea at Plantarium
Here come the fashionably late perennials
Restaurant Manager
Horticultural / Plantarea Manager (Lancashire)
Garden Sundries Shop Manager (Hampshire)
Garden Sundries Retail Manager (Leicestershire)
Garden Sundries Team Leader (Berkshire)
Top 50 plants up 50%
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Lighting continues to be a bestseller
Gardenstore former owners leave Hillview
Strawberry plants in high demand
Uplift in growing media sales
Inside the August issue of Garden Trade News
French show adopts 'easy plants' as its 2017 theme
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
GTN's Greatest Awards 2016
Situations Vacant
Restaurant Manager
Salary: Competitive
 
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Horticultural / Plantarea Manager (Lancashire)
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Garden Sundries Shop Manager (Hampshire)
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Garden Sundries Retail Manager (Leicestershire)
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Garden Sundries Team Leader (Berkshire)
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GTN Bestsellers
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Every week GTN receives and analyses epos data from a number of UK garden centres to produce the GTN Bestsellers charts...
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GTN's Greatest Awards 2016



Catering Awards - June 7th @ HTA Catering Conference
Plant Retailing Awards - June 22nd @ National Plant Show
Outdoor Living Awards - Sept  5th @ spoga+gafa
Garden Centre Awards - Oct 12th @ HTA Garden Futures
Marketing Awards - Nov 8th @ HTA Marketing Forum

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Glencrest Seatex sponsor The Greatest Outdoor Leisure Sales Team Awards
Awards will be presented on Monday evening at spoga@gafa

  
On Monday evening at spoga+gafa GTN's Greatest Outdoor Leisure Sales Team Awards, sponsored by Glencrest Seatex, will be presented at the Gardenex stand C34 in Hall 9.1...
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HTA Study Tour arrives in Koln for spoga+gafa


GTN Xtra joined the HTA Study Tour in Koln yesterday.  The group of retailers and suppliers is visiting the spoga+gafa show together with visits to local gardening retailers...
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Team Gardman - Growing with Confidence as they prepare for Glee


The complete sales team of Gardman staff and agents met in the Gardman showroom last week to start their briefings in advance of Glee...
See sneek preview pictures from the Gardman Showroom
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A better than average August for garden centre sales


Despite August sales volumes being 6% down year on year, a rally in the last week ending 28th August meant the month ended up 6% above the average volume sales index over the period 2011 to 2016 according to the Epos data analysed every week by GTN Bestsellers...
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Hillview 5 years on and ready for further growth
 


It's been a busy first five years for Hillview Garden Centres who celebrate their fifth annivarsary this month now with over 300 staff and turnover on target to break £13m next year...
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Bents’ Cook Shop team leader shortlisted in housewares awards












A section leader at Bents’ Cook Shop has been shortlisted in a magazine’s housewares awards...

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Bunnings to shed light on UK strategy at BHETA Forum

Bunnings UK and Ireland managing director PJ Davis has chosen the next in the series of BHETA Networking Forums to make the first public presentation of the UK Bunnings business since its acquisition of Homebase earlier this year.

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HTA's David Denny completes Channel swim to raise £2500+ for charity





David Denny, the HTA’s market information manager, has completed a cross-Channel swim, raising more than £2,500 in sponsorship...
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Pennells veteran retires after 53 years service
Staff at Pennell’s Lincoln Garden Centre said goodbye last Wednesday to their colleague Trevor Smith, who is retiring after 53 years with the company...

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The team from GTN are proud once again to be the official media partners for Glee producing the Glee Planner, the Glee Show Catalogue and the Glee Daily News.
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Prime-time airing for flower market documentary on Channel 4 on Monday
A documentary about the cut flowers market is due to be screened on Channel Four on Monday...

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Plants that can charge a mobile is winning idea at Plantarium
A plant wall that generates enough energy to charge a mobile phone and a retail range of plant kits for children were judged the Best Ideas at last month’s Plantarium exhibition in Holland...
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Here come the fashionably late perennials




Late-flowering perennials for late summer colour in the planteria are the HTA’s ‘Plant of the Moment’ for September...

Left: Verbena bonariensis (image: Adam Pasco Media)

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