In This Issue
26th June is Deadline for initial Wyevale Garden Centre offers
Homebase sold for £1.00 - "...one of the great all time disasters"
Westland and Crest are touring!
Get the right compost for your hanging baskets & patio planters
Bord na Móna Growise Sponsors Myeloma UK Garden at Chelsea Flower Show
Bulldog supports RHS Campaign for School Gardening
Garden Centres in a much better place than DIY
Plants now ahead of last year with the Chelsea boost still to come
New owners for Stansted Park Garden Centre
SBM Life Sciences account manager and family raise hundreds for Greenfingers Charity
Celebrating 10 Years of Vitavia
Fryer’s Roses and Helen’s Trust work blooming well together!
Raoul Curtis-Machin leaves HTA
Success for Woodlodge at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
GTN Xtra and GDPR
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Union Jack Windmill sales soar in celebration weekend
Honorary Greats Award for John Athwal
Courgette tops Runner Bean as Veg 2 Gro Bestseller
Johnsons Lawn Seed’s World Cup tip for retailers
Springwatch boost for Wild Bird Care
Growing Media sales set another May record
The best of last week's
Guy Hands puts the "For Sale" notice up at Wyevale Garden Centres
Blue Diamond profits increase to £9.2m
Profits up by 24% at Westland Horticulture
Plant sales soar...'just like an old-fashioned bank holiday'
Golds for Hillers, Cooks, Taylors Bulbs and Dibleys at Chelsea 2018
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
lunch! 2018: Visitor registration opens & first speakers announced
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26th June is Deadline for initial Wyevale Garden Centre offers

Christie & Co, the agents handling the sale of 145 Wyevale Garden Centres have told GTN Xtra the deadline for first round bids is 26th June 2018...

 

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Homebase sold for £1.00 - "...one of the great all time disasters"
June 30th is completion date for Hilco purchase of Homebase

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John Colley of the Warwick Business School in Australia said at the weekend: "This is one of the great all time disasters in the M&A world and it is against some very stiff competition. Both the strategy and the execution were disasters...”

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Westland and Crest are touring!
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After last years successful regional trade shows Westland and Crest are touring again with 3 UK dates and 1 in ROI. There will be cracking show offers, dramatic merchandising solutions, full details of our comms plans, technical experts, plus an exclusive preview of our 2019 New Product Development...

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Get the right compost for your hanging baskets & patio planters
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It’s time to start thinking about your customers hanging baskets and patio planters. Getting the compost right is key to creating beautiful displays that continue to flourish throughout the Summer months...

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Bord na Móna Growise Sponsors Myeloma UK Garden at Chelsea Flower Show
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Bord na Móna Growise would like to congratulate John Everiss and Francesca Murrell winners of Silver Gilt medal for their design of The Myeloma UK Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018...

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Bulldog supports RHS Campaign for School Gardening
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Bulldog Tools Childrens Premier Range is widely promoted at this years 2018 RHS Chelsea Flower Show and proudly supports the RHS Campaign for School Gardening...

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Garden Centres in a much better place than DIY

As B&Q announced sales down by 9% for the first quarter, and Wesfarmers sell off Homebase for £1 after dreadful sales performances, garden centres across the UK are faring much better because of their core product line – plants...

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Plants now ahead of last year with the Chelsea boost still to come

Another booming week for plant sales sees the GTN Bestsellers Plant Sales Index rise not only to parity year on year but to an incredible 3.1% up on 2017 for the year to date...

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New owners for Stansted Park Garden Centre

Stanstead Park Garden Centre, formerley part of the Home & Garden Group, has been acquired by Paul Richards and Tim Mason and will be run under the Your Local Garden Centre brand, as a sister
centre to Mappleborough Green Garden Centre...

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lunch! 2018: Visitor registration opens & first speakers announced

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With visitor registration now open for 2018, lunch! has released its first preview of some of the new Keynote speakers set to appear at the show over 20-21 September at London ExCeL...

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SBM Life Sciences account manager and family raise hundreds for Greenfingers Charity

Peter Clowes of SBM Life Sciences recently took up the challenge of running the Hackney Half Marathon with his family to raise money for Greenfingers Charity...

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Celebrating 10 Years of Vitavia

2018 marks the 10th Anniversary for Vitavia Garden Products Ltd and over the last decade Vitavia has become a major supplier to both the UK and European greenhouse markets.

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Fryer’s Roses and Helen’s Trust work blooming well together!

Last year, to commemorate the first RHS Chatsworth Flower Show, Fryer’s Roses, part of the Blue Diamond group of garden centres, launched a new rose named in honour of the Duchess of Devonshire, which Chatsworth is the home of...

 

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Raoul Curtis-Machin leaves HTA

Raoul Curtis-Machin is taking the opportunity to pursue a new challenge and will leave the HTA at the end of June...

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Success for Woodlodge at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Woodlodge is celebrating after the two exhibits it contributed to at RHS Chelsea Flower Show won prestigious medals...

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GTN Xtra and GDPR

With all the e-mails floating around regarding GDPR, at GTN Xtra, we would like to assure you that our Data Processing policies remain the same in that we actively mange the security of data we hold and that we never share data with any third party unless prior permission has been granted...

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