In This Issue
Easy Fountain picking up on latest trends
Exclusive: First look at Westland's 'Lawn Man' TV ad
Velcro Companies expands with investment in Petface
Vitax appoints new sales manager
Mother’s Day records despite drop in volumes
Pink Kisses are a big sales winner
Woodstock Chimes offer quality and great value
Boost your EGO with sales of petrol free garden machinery
Record-breaking Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day sees 5-year tally pass £0.5m
Team Briers survive the Garden Re-Leaf Day walk
Which one will be crowned Rising Star 2017?
Strongest Man contenders train amongst the plants
Writtle wins Young Gardeners title in Ideal Home Show design contest
Zest 4 Leisure employees to tackle Manchester Marathon
Assistant Garden Centre Manager - Oxfordshire
Nursery Grower Seasonal Bedding Plants (Devon)
Garden Centre Plantarea Horticultural Manager (Worcestershire)
Plantarea Department Head / Manager (Hampshire)
Plantarea Supervior / Manager (Berkshire)
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Notcutts celebrates staff ‘heroes’
Lights add sparkle to Mother’s Day
Tomato plant sales soar
Impressive initial roll-call of speakers for GrowQuip
DCF invests £8,500 in students of horticulture
Nursery loans plants for children's charity fundraiser
Mother’s Day hit for growing media sales
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Pictures from the Greatest Christmas Gold-winning teams
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
A taster to whet your appetite!
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Assistant Garden Centre Manager - Oxfordshire
Hilltop Garden Store (part of Hillview Garden Centres)
 
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Nursery Grower Seasonal Bedding Plants (Devon)
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Easy Fountain picking up on latest trends


Kelkay’s Easy Fountains have been updated and extended for 2017 to respond to changing customer demand...
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Exclusive: First look at Westland's 'Lawn Man' TV ad


Westland has significantly upped its TV spend, as early indications show SafeLawn is set to storm ahead of the competition this spring. The advert, featuring CGI created ‘Lawn Man’, will air on screens in April.  Here's an exclusive look at the TV ad...
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Velcro Companies expands with investment in Petface


Velcro Companies has acquired a minority stake in Petface Ltd. The agreement will add further momentum to the company’s global consumer business and supplements its innovative product development capabilities...
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Vitax appoints new sales manager

Vitax has appointed Mark Butler as its new sales manager to help drive future sales and expand into new markets. Mark, who has almost 30 years’ industry experience, will be working alongside existing sales manager Colin Wetherley-Mein, who will be stepping down from his UK-wide role later this year to concentrate on Vitax’s key national accounts.



Pictured (left to right): Daniel Wilkinson - Vitax's managing director, Mark Butler - Vitax's new sales manager and Colin Wetherley-Mein - Vitax sales manager.

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Mother’s Day records despite drop in volumes
First reports of records broken for March from Alton Garden Centre


As we reported in GTN Xtra last week garden centres across the country had record sales over Mother’s Day weekend as people flocked to garden centre restaurants and coffee shops and reports suggest good sales levels are continuing this weekend setting record sales for March...
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Pink Kisses are a big sales winner
 
Dianthus Pink Kisses and Orchids were two big plant sales winners during Mother’s Day week...
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Woodstock Chimes offer quality and great value
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Created by GRAMMY® Award-winning musician Garry Kvistad, Woodstock Chimes have been the choice of discerning UK customers for over 30 years. The authentic windchimes offer premier quality and great value...
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Boost your EGO with sales of petrol free garden machinery


EGO Power Plus presented their 2017 range of petrol free mowers and other garden machinery tools to the UK gardening press last week and are now looking for ethusiastic garden centres to add to their sales network...
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Record-breaking Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day sees 5-year tally pass £0.5m
Early reports indicate that  Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day 2017 will be a record breaker in terms of industry participation and sponsorship as the five-year tally of funds-raised passes half a million pounds...



Above: Haskins staff celebrate after their fund-raising efforts.
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Team Briers survive the Garden Re-Leaf Day walk
 
Six members of the Briers team took on the gruelling Garden Re-Leaf 20 mile walk, all in aid of the wholly deserving Greenfingers charity...
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HTA Catering Conference and Dinner - 13-14 June 2017
Recruitment, food psychology, barista training and communicating allergens are the latest topics to be added to the programme of the HTA Catering Conference – A Piece of Cake? which takes place on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 June at The Belfry in Sutton Coldfield...
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Which one will be crowned Rising Star 2017?
This year’s Rising Stars Programme has begun with 25 hopefuls competing to win the prestigious title of Rising Star 2017...

 

Photographs show the Northern Rising Stars at Barton Grange (above left ) and the Southern Rising Stars at Squire's Badshot Lea (above right).
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Strongest Man contenders train amongst the plants

World-class competitors from the Strongman circuit, including Game of Thrones star Thor Bjornsson, prepared for the ‘Europe’s Strongest Man’ competition with the help of leading commercial nursery business Johnsons of Whixley...

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Writtle wins Young Gardeners title in Ideal Home Show design contest

Writtle University College has been crowned the 2017 ‘Young Gardeners of the Year,’ announced in line with the launch of the Ideal Home Show sponsored by Zoopla...



Above: Writtle University College's winning design at the Ideal Home Show.

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Zest 4 Leisure employees to tackle Manchester Marathon



Zest 4 Leisure has announced that Cancer Research UK is its new chosen charity for 2017, and Managing Director Steve Morgan along with 23 other employees will be taking part in the 26 mile Manchester Marathon this Sunday...

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