In This Issue
High Profile TGCG Regional Manager reveals leaving date
Blaze-hit Blooms Cardiff opens up to sell Christmas trees
The challenges facing Solus as new CEO takes over
GCA confirms Wylie as permanent CEO
GTN Bestsellers predicts 15% volume sales increase at garden centres
Indoor plant and product sales gather pace
Dobbies and Tesco to hold exhibition for first joint Scottish store
Garden centres dish up a cheerful October
Act now to head off law that could devastate plant ranges
Customer Votes for The Greatest Garden Centre Team at Christmas start to arrive
Notcutts buy Greatest Christmas Awards nominated Garden Pride Garden Centre
Benross expands team to meet garden retail demands
Broadcaster Stefan Bucazcki wins Lifetime Achievment Award
Santa arrives at Merryhatton Garden Centre in a microlight
Buy your tickets for GTN's Greatest Christmas Party
Kelkay acquires Borderstone from Aggregate Industries
Santa hats and novelty socks boost Christmas business
Pull together to promote horticulture
Winter Stem is the HTA's Plant of December
Consumer deadline for disposal of Provado Lawn Grub Killer
Top economist shares thoughts on outlook for garden centres
Learn all about branding
More pictures of Garden Centre Christmas displays than have ever been published before
Vote on-line for The Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year.
Gardman's Big January Sale just got bigger
HTA calls on Defra to avoid forestry crisis
Path Weedkiller's seal of approval
Growing media sales still up year on year overall
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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High Profile TGCG Regional Manager reveals leaving date






Peter Burks, one of seven regional managers being made redundant at the Garden Centre Group, has revealed his leaving date...
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Blaze-hit Blooms Cardiff opens up to sell Christmas trees
 
Just one week after the devastating fire at Blooms Cardiff, the garden centre has opened its gates to customers from this weekend and will be selling real Christmas trees and wreaths...
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The challenges facing Solus as new CEO takes over








Solus Garden & Leisure will be craving a period of stability as its new chief executive faces major challenges...
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GCA confirms Wylie as permanent CEO





The Garden Centre Association has confirmed Iain Wylie’s appointment as its permanent chief executive...
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GTN Bestsellers predicts 15% volume sales increase at garden centres



Volume sales in garden centres are on track to end the year 15% up, as predicted by GTN Bestsellers three weeks ago. This week’s volume increase of 20%, coupled with a weather forecast that doesn’t mention snow at all through to Christmas, puts us in the best possible place to end the year on a really big high...

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Indoor plant and product sales gather pace
 
Pointsettia sales are gathering momentum in garden centres with associated products also showing healthy signs of growth...
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Dobbies and Tesco to hold exhibition for first joint Scottish store


Dobbies and Tesco will unveil their plans for their first joint new build store in Scotland at an public exhibition next week...
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Garden centres dish up a cheerful October
 
Diners and early Christmas shoppers turned to garden centres for their refreshments and festive purchases in October with sales in both categories up on the same month last year. That's according to the GCA Barometer of Trade...
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Act now to head off law that could devastate plant ranges
Garden centres and nurseries have just days left to register their concerns with MEPs about new plant-naming proposals that many believe could devastate ornamantal horticulture...
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Customer Votes for The Greatest Garden Centre Team at Christmas start to arrive
Get your customers voting now – entries taken until Christmas Eve


Entries for The Greatest Garden Centre Team at Christmas are starting to arrive at the GTN offices. The first entry to be received – unfortunately there are no prizes for this accolade – was for Langlands Garden Centre in York Road, Leeds...
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Notcutts buy Greatest Christmas Awards nominated Garden Pride Garden Centre
 
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Notcutts Garden Centres announced yesterday they are to buy Sussex garden centre Garden Pride and one of The Greatest Christmas Awards Experts visited the teams this week to collect information for their Greatest Christmas Awards entry...
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Benross expands team to meet garden retail demands

Liverpool-based Benross has formed a strong national garden retail team to focus specifically on the growing demand in the marketplace...

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Broadcaster Stefan Bucazcki wins Lifetime Achievment Award
The Garden Media Guild this week presented its Lifetime Achievment Award to writer and broadcaster Professor Stefan Buczacki...


Above: Professor Bucazcki receives his Lifetime Achievment Award from the 2012 winner, Jekka McVicar, and awards host Matthew Wilson
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Santa arrives at Merryhatton Garden Centre in a microlight
 
Santa arrived at Merryhatton Garden Centre, North Berwick, in spectacular style last weekend...by microlight!
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Buy your tickets for GTN's Greatest Christmas Party


Tickets are selling fast for The Greatest Christmas Awards Party on Sunday, January 12, 2014 at the Majestic Hotel in Harrogate...so make sure you don't miss out!
Buy your tickets at Early Bird discounted prices now
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