In This Issue
Final week of Christmas voting to decide who is The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre team of 2017
Bunnings to test format in smaller Homebase stores
Girl Power takeover for Rising Stars
Snow takes gloss off Christmas
Shark Warrior to get jaws wagging at conference
UK becoming less dependent on Netherlands for plants and flowers
World exclusive new sunflower from T&M breeding
Retail Lab set to return to Glee 2018
Bents helps make Christmas for someone special
Perrywood spreads Christmas cheer across North Essex
Poinsettia back at No 1
Dogs meet Santa at Squire's Garden Centres
Haskins Roundstone gives chocolate to volunteers
Can you recognise the brands from these colours?
Use social media, emails and websites to win customer votes for The Greatest Christmas Team 2017
Circus fun after Christmas at Squire’s
Happy Christmas from all at GTN and Garden Radio
Sales Agents
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Christmas up on last year despite the snow
Sewing Bee judge signed up for GCA conference
Mr Fothergill’s appoints Ken Ross as new Territory Manager
Snow shovels sell out
Rolawn ranked 44th in Top 100 Businesses
Smart Garden Products unveil their Christmas presence
Compost sales hit by snowfall
Everything you need to get growing with Plantpak
Amazon patents a 'garden service'
Wanted: exhibitors for Belvoir Castle's first flower show
Spring Fair names Gift of the Year shortlist
The best of last week's
Notcutts Woodbridge to rebuild Santa's grotto after fire
Fire-hit garden centre gets planning permission to rebuild
Christmas sales peaks still to come
Bridge Farm Group submits plans for major new site
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Fri-Jado sees demand rise for multi deck hot food merchandisers
New grab-and-go cabinet promises big energy savings
Situations Vacant
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Final week of Christmas voting to decide who is The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre team of 2017



The ultimate accolades at GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards are The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Teams, as voted for by garden centre customers.  Voting starts now and runs through to Christmas Eve, December 24th and to be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is download the posters and voting forms below for in-store voting and add our voting link to your facebook, twitter or website to get customers voting on-line too!

 

GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards 2017 are sponsored by:

Download the voting forms and on-line voting link here
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Bunnings to test format in smaller Homebase stores
Bicester and Walton on Thames will be the smallest conversions so far

Wesfarmers is trialling smaller store formats following the conversion of the first 12 Homebase stores to Bunnings Warehouses...

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Girl Power takeover for Rising Stars

Emma Blackmore from Bents, Samatha Davis from Haskins, Sarah Postlethwaite from Fron Goch, Andreea Robertson from Gardenwise and Jayne Scott from Klondyke Daleside are the five Westland GCA Rising Stars finalists preparing for their presentations at the GCA Conference in Stratford next January...

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Snow takes gloss off Christmas

Last weekend’s snow, which was heavy enough to cause centres to close in the Midlands, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire, made it impossible for overall weekly sales volumes to reach the pre-Christmas peak expected, according to EPOS data analysed by GTN Bestsellers....

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Shark Warrior to get jaws wagging at conference

Following the BBC's successful Blue Planet II series the Garden Centre Association has secured a guest speaker passionate about shark conservation for its annual conference. Lesley Rochat, known as the Shark Warrior, is the founder of Shark Warrior Adventures and AfriOceans, a non-profit organisation, and she will be the first speaker at the event on January 22.

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UK becoming less dependent on Netherlands for plants and flowers

Britain’s dependency on imports of plants and flowers from the Netherlands, is declining, according to a  report from the organisers of January’s IPM Essen trade show...

 

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World exclusive new sunflower from T&M breeding
 

Thompson & Morgan is launching its latest world exclusive plant breeding success. Sunbelievable is a truly phenomenal new sunflower. Like no other sunflower, Sunbelievable flowers continuously from June until the first frosts. In trials, plants were still blooming in late November. Incredibly, over 1,000 flowers are produced on each plant during the growing season!

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Retail Lab set to return to Glee 2018

 

Still on a high following Glee 2017, the event’s post-show report has helped shape much of the thinking for the short and long-term future of Glee, including the return of the Retail Lab in 2018...

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Bents helps make Christmas for someone special

 

To help celebrate the launch of its brand new website, Bents Garden & Home recently ran a festive competition to find a very special person – someone who deserved to have Christmas made for them, with an impressive prize package worth over £1,000...

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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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Fri-Jado sees demand rise for multi deck hot food merchandisers

Uxbridge based foodservice and food retailing equipment provider, Fri-Jado UK Limited, has claimed a sustained increase in sales of its heated multi deck (MD) merchandisers...

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New grab-and-go cabinet promises big energy savings

 

 

 

 

 

 

Applied Design & Engineering has completed a successful field trial of its new energy-efficient integral refrigerated Aircell ‘Crivat’ Grab & Go cabinet...

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Perrywood spreads Christmas cheer across North Essex

 

Up to 20 deserving individuals will enjoy a surprise this festive season as Tiptree-based garden centre, Perrywood, embarks on its Christmas Cheer campaign...

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Poinsettia back at No 1
 

Indoor plant sales shone while the snow kept customers out of planterias for a large swathe of the country....

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Dogs meet Santa at Squire's Garden Centres
 

Squire’s Garden Centres recently held a special “Santa Paws” event for dogs to meet Santa and have their photo taken with him...

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Haskins Roundstone gives chocolate to volunteers

 

Haskins Garden Centre in Roundstone has partnered with Wadars Animal Rescue to spread festive cheer to volunteers that give up their time to support animals in distress or danger over Christmas...

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Can you recognise the brands from these colours?

Colour increases brand recognition by 80%, but how many brands can you name from colour alone?

 

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Use social media, emails and websites to win customer votes for The Greatest Christmas Team 2017



Once again you can use social media, e-mail and your website to invite your customers to vote for your team in The Greatest Christmas Awards...

On-line voting link
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Circus fun after Christmas at Squire’s

 

For families looking for something to do after Christmas then Squires has the answer – a fantastic circus show under the Big Top...

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Happy Christmas from all at GTN and Garden Radio

Christmas Greetings to all our readers and listeners from the Team at GTN and Garden Radio; Trevor, Neil, Mike, Mandy, Alan, Ben, Harry, Rebbecca and Karen.

 

We wish you all a great final run into Christmas and a very prosperous New Year!

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