In This Issue
Interest in Grow Your Own continues at a healthy rate
Thompson & Morgan launch a world exclusive in TomTato
Essex garden centre to close after 50 years in business
Orchid products selling well with 11 in the Top 50
Are you making the most of retailing opportunities within your restaurant or café?
Sponsorship sells out for HTA Garden Futures
Major re-brand for Aggregate Industries
Posh beds for pooches catch our eye at Glee
Chilli kits popular as onion sets dominate sales
Bark, farmyard manure and top soil still in demand
Retail specialists Swan Retail and G7 to merge
Create a blaze of autumn colour with Heuchera
Independent retailers could save on their energy bills
LECHUZA announces new Commercial Director
Collaborate, innovate and succeed at HTA Seasonal Plants Focus
GTN Bestsellers - garden centre sales data every week
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
 
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Interest in Grow Your Own continues at a healthy rate


As the weather turned back to the Indian Summer we'd all been hoping for, the GTN Bestsellers charts show that the biggest sales increases were Veg-2-Gro...
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Thompson & Morgan launch a world exclusive in TomTato
You can now harvest potatoes and tomatoes from the same plant
 

Thompson & Morgan have announced another major horticultural breakthrough – specially hand-grafted plants producing both potatoes and tomatoes...
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Essex garden centre to close after 50 years in business


Planthome Garden Centre in Essex is closing after more than 50 years due to competition from supermarkets and online retailers.
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Orchid products selling well with 11 in the Top 50
 
The fine weather has meant there is still plenty of activity in the UK’s gardens but consumers are turning their attentions to indoor plants with orchid products prominent in this week’s GTN Bestsellers Garden Product chart...
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Are you making the most of retailing opportunities within your restaurant or café?
Have you thought about… retailing and cross-selling within your food space?


Research shows that a visit to a café or restaurant is fast becoming one of the key reasons for visiting a garden centre. Customers are looking for a complete experience and 'making a day of it' invariably includes time spent within your dining space. The key is to ensure that you maximise the retail potential of this captive audience by promoting a wide range of products and encouraging impulse buys...
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Sponsorship sells out for HTA Garden Futures
 
Sponsorship for the forthcoming HTA Garden Futures Dinner & Conference is now sold out. Over 25 companies are partnering with the ever popular strategic industry event which this year takes place on 17 October at One Great George Street, London with the dinner taking place on the evening of 16 October...
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Major re-brand for Aggregate Industries

Aggregate Industries, one of the UK’s leading aggregates, construction and building materials groups, has announced a major re-brand which will consolidate 25 of its businesses under the Aggregate Industries name...
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Posh beds for pooches catch our eye at Glee


The Ultra Plush Snuggle Bed, by Westwoods Global Ltd, was one product that certainly caught our eye at Glee as well as impressing the New Product Awards judges, who voted it best Pet Product...
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