In This Issue
10 out of 10 for Glee 2016 from garden centre owners and buyers
Glee 2016 hailed as a fantastic success
Hot weather drives sales down in garden centres
HTA Marketing Forum - Maximising Your Potential
Bradford garden centre proves a little bit of charity goes a long way
GardenSite wins 'Best Online Garden Retail Buying Team'
Grange invests in manufacture and distribution
Wyevale Nurseries sees 45% increase from garden design sector
Great British Cards raise £18,000 for industry charities
Woodlodge raises £1,000 for Greenfingers Charity with fire pit raffle
Winner of Squire's competition gets £500 worth of plants
Nursery Growing Supervisor
Grounds Maintenance Operative
Planteria Seasonal Department Manager
Garden Centre Seasonal Manager, Christmas & Furniture
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Orchid feeders back on top of Bestsellers chart
Onions and Christmas spuds outsell winter veg
Bulb planting and houseplant care drive growing media sales
Large sales jumps for Violas and Primulas
HTA Garden Futures Conference and Dinner: ‘Business Agility in a Disruptive World’
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
GTN's Greatest Awards 2016
All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Celebrating 15 years of Fresh Flavours at Bents
lunch! 2016: The UK’s biggest food-to-go show returns
New catering manager at Stewarts Garden Centre
Situations Vacant
Nursery Growing Supervisor
Salary: £20,000 - £25,000
 
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Grounds Maintenance Operative
Salary: £16,000 - £18,000
 
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Planteria Seasonal Department Manager
Salary: £20,000 - £25,000
 
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Garden Centre Seasonal Manager, Christmas & Furniture
Salary: £20,000 - £25,000
 
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GTN Bestsellers
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Every week GTN receives and analyses epos data from a number of UK garden centres to produce the GTN Bestsellers charts...
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GTN's Greatest Awards 2016



Catering Awards - June 7th @ HTA Catering Conference
Plant Retailing Awards - June 22nd @ National Plant Show
Outdoor Living Awards - Sept  5th @ spoga+gafa
Garden Centre Awards - Oct 12th @ HTA Garden Futures
Marketing Awards - Nov 8th @ HTA Marketing Forum

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10 out of 10 for Glee 2016 from garden centre owners and buyers



It was a really busy Glee from a GTN point of view. But what about Glee from the point of view of the most important people; garden centre owners and buyers?  After the show GTN asked the questions:  How useful was Glee 2016 for you?  And what was your highlight of the show?

Read the first 10 responses received...
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Glee 2016 hailed as a fantastic success


The three-day Glee 2016 show at the NEC Birmingham this week has been hailed as a fantastic success by both exhibitors and visitors alike...
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Hot weather drives sales down in garden centres


Garden centres don’t appear to have benefitted from the unusually hot weather last week. GTN Bestsellers EPoS data indicates that total volume sales dropped by 14% on the previous week and on the same week last year. Perhaps the weather was so good everyone went to the beach instead...
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HTA Marketing Forum - Maximising Your Potential
 
The HTA Marketing Forum, with a theme of ‘Maximising Your Potential’, takes place on 8 November 2016 at Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire...
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Bradford garden centre proves a little bit of charity goes a long way


Tong, one of Yorkshire's largest independent garden centres, is celebrating after raising over £7,000 for a North Yorkshire children's hospice...
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GardenSite wins 'Best Online Garden Retail Buying Team'


For the second year running GardenSite.co.uk has won the prestigious 'Best Online Garden Retail Buying Team' award at Glee...
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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Celebrating 15 years of Fresh Flavours at Bents


The Fresh Approach Restaurant at Bents Garden & Home has celebrated many achievements over the years, but 2016 marks one of its most significant milestones; its 15 year anniversary...
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lunch! 2016: The UK’s biggest food-to-go show returns
The UK’s biggest and multi-award winning show for the food-to-go trade, lunch! returns to the Business Design Centre in London on 21-22 September 2016...
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New catering manager at Stewarts Garden Centre


Stewarts Garden Centre Restaurant and Coffee shop at Broomhill, near Wimborne has a new catering manager.
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Grange invests in manufacture and distribution


Leading UK timber fencing company Grange is proposing to restructure its production model, including the closure of manufacturing at the company’s site in Telford. The company’s new production facility opens this autumn in Grudziadz, Poland, although Telford will remain as Grange’s UK headquarters, focusing on sales, marketing and distribution.
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Wyevale Nurseries sees 45% increase from garden design sector
 
Wyevale Nurseries in Hereford has announced that it has seen a 45% increase in sales year-on-year this month (September) from the garden design sector...

Pictured right: Adrian Hoare, Garden Design & Domestic Landscape Sales Manager at Wyevale Nurseries.
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Great British Cards raise £18,000 for industry charities


On the first day of Glee, giant cheques totalling £18,000 were presented to Greenfingers Charity and Perennial from the Great British Card Company from sales of its ‘Floreo’ range of charity cards...
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Woodlodge raises £1,000 for Greenfingers Charity with fire pit raffle
 
Woodlodge has raised almost £1,000 for Greenfingers Charity through a raffle hosted at Glee...
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Winner of Squire's competition gets £500 worth of plants

Sue Ponsford from Shalford in Surrey has won Squire’s Garden Centres “3 Wild Ways” competition, winning £500 worth of plants from Squire’s, plus a wildlife course with the Surrey Wildlife Trust...
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