In This Issue
Prime Minister David Cameron on the campaign trail at Melbicks, a Wyevale Garden Centre
GIMA appoints five new members to its council
Easter Monday sales boil over to make it a cracking week
Everything in the Garden Products chart is rosy
Hozelock confirms return to Glee 2015
Wyevale Garden Centres shortlisted for National Recycling Awards ‘Best Partnership Project’
Dutch say Thank-you with flowers in Kew liberation display
Further investment for Deco-Pak helps forecast growth throughout 2015
Natural & Organic Products Europe 2015 opens this weekend
Town & Country reaches £1,500 for Greenfingers
Bayer Garden advisers live on Facebook
Record 22% increase for Burncoose Nurseries mail order
Plant Buyer - South East England
Horticulture Quality Controller - Northamptonshire
Technical Manager/Buyer - Suffolk
Graduate Sales Person - England
Blue Diamond's Richard Hemans is appointed Chartered Director
Seismic shift in young veg plant sales
Trans-Continental Group appoint Buying Director
Back in the black for growing media
Charlie Dimmock set to visit Newbridge Nurseries
Ben to pedal from Paris to Yeovil for charity
Weather affects plant sales while non-traditional categories soar
Artificial lawn would 'save four days of garden graft a year'
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Prime Minister David Cameron on the campaign trail at Melbicks, a Wyevale Garden Centre


British Prime Minister David Cameron visited Melbicks, a Wyevale Garden Centre, in Birmingham today, talking policies and plantpots with customers and staff...
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GIMA appoints five new members to its council


Five new members were appointed to the GIMA Council at its AGM attended by 80 people this week...
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Easter Monday sales boil over to make it a cracking week


Wow, what a week!  After all the concern and worry prompted by the lengthy colder spell of weather – including a really poor Good Friday and Easter Saturday – Easter Monday heralded a bumper week for garden centres providing GTN Bestsellers with EPoS data...
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Everything in the Garden Products chart is rosy
 
Everything gardening is looking rosy after the Easter Bank Holiday. All but one of the GTN Garden Products Bestsellers saw week on week sales increases with really high risess across weed controls, pots, tools, lawn care and hanging basket products...
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Hozelock confirms return to Glee 2015


It has been confirmed that Hozelock, one of the most recognisable garden care and watering brands in the UK today, is set to make its return to Glee in 2015, following a break of several years...
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Wyevale Garden Centres shortlisted for National Recycling Awards ‘Best Partnership Project’
 
Wyevale Garden Centres has been shortlisted, along with its partners Biffa and Good Values, as a finalist for this year’s MRW National Recycling Award, in the category of ‘Best Partnership Project’...
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Dutch say Thank-you with flowers in Kew liberation display

A special spring flower mosaic made of Dutch bulb flowers was unveiled at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew  this week,  commemorating 70 years since the liberation of the Netherlands...


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Further investment for Deco-Pak helps forecast growth throughout 2015
 
Deco-Pak has announced it is making the necessary investments to ensure that 2015 is its strongest year yet...
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Natural & Organic Products Europe 2015 opens this weekend
Buyers prepare for Europe’s biggest trade event for natural and organic health, beauty and food products
 
Natural & Organic Products Europe – Europe’s biggest trade show for natural, organic, fair trade, free-from, vegan, vegetarian, and healthy living brands – opens at 9.30am on Sunday 19 April at the new venue of ExCeL London...
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Town & Country reaches £1,500 for Greenfingers


We reported in a recent GTNXtra that the number of pairs of Town & Country gardening gloves sold on Garden Re-Leaf Day had reached 3,400. The figure now stands at just over 6,000 pairs of gloves sold and, with 25 pence from each sale pledged to Greenfingers, that equates to a fabulous £1,500 raised for the charity so far...
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Bayer Garden advisers live on Facebook
 
Bayer Garden’s Consumer Advisor, Anita Dent, is going to be live on Facebook throughout the season answering consumers’ questions.  Each ‘Facebook Clinic’ will focus on a different topic, kicking off in April with weeds...
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Record 22% increase for Burncoose Nurseries mail order

Burncoose Nurseries mail order department despatched a record number of customer plant orders in the year to the end of March...

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