In This Issue
Kingfisher plan 40-plus launches for Harrogate Christmas & Gift
How the Class of 2014 kept us on our toes...
The Top 100 most-read stories of 2014
For the Rising Stars, it's the final countdown
Wyevale facing long wait for Blooms Cardiff re-build?
The Quest for Christmas Greatness - Buy Your Tickets for The Greatest Christmas Party Here
Win a trip to Harrogate Christmas & Gift
Magna Carta bonus for Lincoln garden centre
Scotts president goes - and will not be replaced
Garden centres lag behind in outdoor leisure
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Kingfisher plan 40-plus launches for Harrogate Christmas & Gift









Kingfisher will be launching more than 40 Christmas products for 2015 when they return to Harrogate Christmas & Gift later this month (stand B15)...
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How the Class of 2014 kept us on our toes...
GTN associate editor Mike Wyatt looks back on a memorable year - one some would like to forget
Whichever way you look at it, the antics of the Class of 2014 made the past 12 months of mixed fortunes a year to rermember.

As the registers were called, there was a handful of names you could never ignore...
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The Top 100 most-read stories of 2014

It's been another year of momentous change for the garden centre industry - and, predictably, it was the troubles of the former Solus business and the latest re-shaping of the Wyevale Garden Centres group that topped the list of GTN Xtra's best-read stories...

GTN Xtra Content Popularity 2014
RankStory - Issue No.
1Solus Garden & Leisure goes into administration - Issue 28 2014 - Breaking News
2Scotts Miracle-Gro purchase Solus brands - Issue 41 2014 - Breaking News
3Solus 'close to a deal' with new investors - updated - Issue 26 2014
4Redundancies, resignations and new appointments...it has been a dramatic week at Wyevale - Issue 53 2014
5Comment on the Solus-Scotts situation from leading garden centre owners and buying groups - Issue 21 2014
6Dismay as The Garden Centre Group stores shut at 5pm - Issue 5 2014
7Scotts & Solus partnership off - Issue 20 2014 - More Breaking News
8Scotts and Solus in negotiations to join forces - Issue 12 2014 - Breaking News
9Solus reviews options following Scotts deal breakdown - Issue 22 2014 - Solus update
10Administrators make 91 redundant at Solus to stem losses - Issue 30 2014
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For the Rising Stars, it's the final countdown
After eight months of hard graft, the five finalists in the Garden Centre Association’s Rising Stars programme, sponsored by Westland, are preparing to face their ultimate challenge...



Above: last year's joint winners, George Bishop, from Squires Woking, and Will Michieli, from Monkton Elm, presenting to the 2014 conference.

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Wyevale facing long wait for Blooms Cardiff re-build?
Wyevale Garden Centres could be facing a long wait before the Blooms Garden Centre at Cardiff, which was destroyed by fire in November 2013, is re-built...

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The Quest for Christmas Greatness - Buy Your Tickets for The Greatest Christmas Party Here
 
The quest for The Greatest Christmas teams is nearly at the finishing line.  The expert team of judges have already visited over 130 garden centres to meet teams nominated in this years The Greatest Christmas Awards.  You’ll find out who are The Greatest at Christmas this year by joining us at the first awards event of 2015, The Greatest Christmas Awards Christmas Party next Sunday.  Buy your tickets now...

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