In This Issue
Solus brands: give us time, urges Scotts MD
Barton Grange plan £6m leisure development at Brock
Kingfisher continues to shine with their unique “World Icons”
October sales volume down but still tracking above average
Solex dates for 2015 change to reflect visitor response
Ghostly garden product sales for Halloween week
Town & Country offer premium gifts for gardeners...just in time for Christmas
Stewarts celebrate over 870 years in service!
HTA business mentoring scheme promises 'real world' approach
After 20 years, Bents find use for giant compost heap...
The annual Kingfisher Pre-season BIG giveaway has begun!
Retailers will be first to benefit from new era of collaboration
If catering and food are your growth areas our new Food Xtra will help you
The Quest for Christmas Greatness
Notcutts scoop Retail Interiors Award
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HTA plan to move Futures conference out of London
Defra minister recalls 'memorable summer' at Bransford Nurseries
Good weather equals record sales for growing media
Back Garden Re-Leaf Day says Downton Abbey star
Homebase director to share realignment 'secrets'
GPs should prescribe gardening says Queen's former doctor
15% sales surge in warm September
£25m Sinclair plant ushers in new hi-tech era
Bosmere grows management team
Primrose recognised via inclusion in Google Certified Shops programme
November spotlight turns to trees
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Solus brands: give us time, urges Scotts MD


Scotts Miracle-Gro UK MD Martin Breddy said this week the company had made a long-term commitment to its newly-acquired Solus brands and urged retailers to ”give us a little time”...
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Barton Grange plan £6m leisure development at Brock
Barton Grange plan to build a £6m leisure development on their Brock garden centre site near Preston, with a curling rink, ten-pin bowling,cinema and high-quality dining facilities...

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Kingfisher continues to shine with their unique “World Icons”


One of the UK’s leading importers and distributors of value for money goods, Kingfisher (Bonnington Plastics Ltd) are leading the way in the garden, leisure and homeware industries, and garden lighting forms an important sector of their core ranges...
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October sales volume down but still tracking above average


October sales volumes, as reported by the GTN Bestsellers All Items Epos data, were 7.7% down on October 2013, but still 1.5% up on the average for October over the previous five years...
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Solex dates for 2015 change to reflect visitor response


LOFA surveyed a representative sample of visitors to SOLEX 2014 and, as a result, have decided that the 2015 exhibition will change to become a true mid-week show, running from Tuesday 7th July to Thursday 9th July.
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Ghostly garden product sales for Halloween week
 
There were many ghostly happenings at garden centres last week for Halloween. And, according to GTN Bestsellers data, sales of related garden lighting and decorative lines reflected higher than usual activity with half-term also kicking the sale of winter garden ornaments into action too...
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Town & Country offer premium gifts for gardeners...just in time for Christmas

The introduction of the new Glove and Secateurs Sets from Town & Country brings together its luxuriously soft, premium leather and suede gloves with a pair of quality, comfort grip secateurs to provide retailers with a winning combination and a guaranteed all-year-round seller with high gift purchase potential.
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Stewarts celebrate over 870 years in service!


Award-winning Stewarts have presented long service awards to 51 staff members who collectively have worked with the company for over 870 years in total...
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HTA business mentoring scheme promises 'real world' approach







HTA members are being offered a new business mentoring scheme titled ‘Making it Happen’, championed by former garden centre operator Steve Myatt (left)...
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After 20 years, Bents find use for giant compost heap...






Bents at Glazebury, Cheshire, have converted a giant compost heap of plant and green waste collected over the past 20 years into growing media for use on their nurseries and local allotments...
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The annual Kingfisher Pre-season BIG giveaway has begun!



The annual Kingfisher Pre-season BIG giveaway has begun! If you have never purchased Kingfisher products before, now is the time to order.

Grow your profits with a complete range of products, covering everything you need in store. New customers will receive 25% off catalogue prices, plus FREE delivery for orders placed over £500.00+VAT...
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Retailers will be first to benefit from new era of collaboration
 
The HTA are doing great work at the moment bringing the previously disparate parts of our industry together, writes GTN’s managing director, Trevor Pfeiffer. And the results of all the collaborative work were on display at last month’s HTA Garden Futures Conference...
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If catering and food are your growth areas our new Food Xtra will help you
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The Quest for Christmas Greatness
 
The quest for The Greatest Christmas teams is on.  The expert team of judges are now out and about visiting all of the 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...

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Notcutts scoop Retail Interiors Award


Notcutts have won the Best Large Format Store of the Year Award at the Retail Week Interiors Awards 2014...
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