In This Issue
New display ideas, new products, new suppliers at Bunnings first UK garden centre - GTN Xtra picture exclusive
Dobbies reports best Christmas trading for five years
Flowering plants and veg lines buck the trend
Resolva Liquid Shots back on TV
Wyevale Nurseries tree sales up by 22%
Diarmuid Gavin is new brand ambassador for Vivagreen
Plant pot manufacturer Hum celebrates export success
Hygge trend driving customer trends in the garden
HTA Study Tour celebrates and learns in Holland
More Greatest Christmas Award winners...
Garden Centre Manager
Garden Centre General Manager (Dorset)
Plant Buyer (Essex)
Plantarea Department Head Seasonal Plants (Essex)
Wholesale Senior Plantsman (Kent)
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Baby Bio to rejuvenate the houseplant sector
New UK-bred pot petunia gives a thundering performance
Christmas orchids drive repeat sales
Onion sets and shallots boost Veg-2-Gro sales
Farmyard manure sales beat the February blues
Plants brighten sales...even on grey days
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Garden Centre Manager
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Garden Centre General Manager (Dorset)
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Plantarea Department Head Seasonal Plants (Essex)
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Wholesale Senior Plantsman (Kent)
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New display ideas, new products, new suppliers at Bunnings first UK garden centre - GTN Xtra picture exclusive



The Bunnings Warehouse garden centre area at their pilot St Albans store provided plenty of new ways of displaying plants and products as well as some surprising new product lines and new suppliers to the UK market, when GTN Xtra made a visit yesterday...
See GTN Xtra's exclusive picture gallery
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Dobbies reports best Christmas trading for five years


Dobbies Garden Centres reports its most successful Christmas trading period in the last five years with a number of standout performances for the business.
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Flowering plants and veg lines buck the trend
 
Footfall may have been down for the first week of February, but sales of brightly coloured flowering plants and Veg-2-Gro lines bucked the trend with increases of over 20% week
on week, according to GTN Bestsellers...
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Resolva Liquid Shots back on TV


The largest growing concentrate weedkiller brand is set to grow even further in 2017 with another £1m spend on TV...
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Wyevale Nurseries tree sales up by 22%
 
Wyevale Nurseries in Hereford has announced its tree sales were up 22% year on year from August 2016 until the end of January 2017...
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Diarmuid Gavin is new brand ambassador for Vivagreen


Vivagreen, winners of the 2016 GIMA SeedCorn fund, have appointed Diarmuid Gavin as their brand ambassador across their range of ‘free from’ home and garden products...
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Plant pot manufacturer Hum celebrates export success
 
There may be a stream of Presidential news coming out of the USA at the moment but for British plant pot manufacturer Hum the biggest story is about their own export success...
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Hygge trend driving customer trends in the garden


Kelkay have developed a wide range of beautiful natural stone paving products to respond to the trend for Hygge inspired simple, natural designs...
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HTA Study Tour celebrates and learns in Holland


It was an action packed few days for garden centres and suppliers attending the HTA Garden Retail Study Tour in Holland, joining in with the celebrations of The Garden Retail Experience Award winners...
See first pictures from the study tour
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More Greatest Christmas Award winners...
   

GTN Xtra caught up with Greatest Christmas Award Winners Noma Lights and Aylett Nurseries last week...


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