GTN November 2024 - GIMA Awards Roll of Honour & GLEE New Products Directory.

In this Issue:

• GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards – the judges hit the road to visit 120 garden centres
• Choice Marketing – winners from the conference and awards
• Opinion – retailers on implications from the Budget
• Keter celebrate 80 years of Stewart Garden
• Glee New Product Directory – every product entered this year
• GIMA Award – winners in the roll of honour
• Glee New Product Directory continued
• Review of PATS Telford
• Houseplants in the mall – a look around The RHS Plant Space
• Planteria – plants for the festive season
• HTA Viewpoint - A chance to give back
• GIMA Viewpoint – Managing Risk

After the success of last year's Christmas Customer vote we’ve formally added back in in-store voting on paper voting slips to allow even more customers to share their appreciation of the magical Christmas retailing experiences that are created by garden centres across the UK.

Last year almost 19,000 garden centre customers voted for their Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Team as part of GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards. Since the launch last Friday, hundreds of votes have already been made on-line for garden centres across the UK.  Will your customers vote your team as The Greatest at Christmas this year?

Our team of judges are really getting into the Christmas spirit as they start their mission to visit the record entry of 120 garden centres that have teams nominated in this year’s Greatest Christmas Awards...

As well as the kudos and fame from winning a Greatest Christmas award, our Gold winners in each of the judged categories will win prizes including stock, services or hotel accommodation from our Greatest Awards sponsors. 

GTN will be publishing its Sustainability Directory again and this year's theme will be 'Where next for Garden Centres?'.

New Products for the UK Garden Trade for 2025 from GIMA Members: Ames, Auto Pot Global, Avocet Hardware – Greenman Tools, Azpects, Bulldog Tools, Burgon & Ball, Capi Europe, Coir Products, Durston Garden Products, elho, Evergreen Garden Care, Fandango Fire Tools, Fargro, Forest Garden, Gardena, Glee, Greenkey, Greenleaf Horticulture, Handy Distribution, Harvest Pet Products, Hortiwool    , Hozelock, Johnsons Lawn Seeds, Kleen-Tex, LBC Ultralight Boots, Marriages, Meadow View Stone, Museums & Galleries, Panacea Products, Phoenox, PlantWorks, POTR, Primeur, Primus, Sipcam, Smart Garden Products, Sorbus, The Solar Centre, Tildenet, Treadstone, Vitavia, Vitax, Witt UK & Ireland, Woodmansterne, Zest Outdoor Living, GIMA Member Directory, Join GIMA.

GTN October 2024. In this Glee Review Issue:

• RocketGro – Towards Climate Positive
• Open for business in Shetland - GTN visits the new centre in Lerwick
• It’s Christmas – Entry details for GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards 2024
• Glee 2024 – The Buzz is back
• Making an impact at Glee
• Potr - GIMA Seed Corn Fund Winner
• Glee Hero’s – Influencing the past 50 Years
• Glee New Product Award Winners
• Floral Thursday at Glee sets new records
• Hold on tight – Wing walkers for Greenfingers
• GTN Planteria – Seasonal picks for 2025 and beyond
• Navigating change at the HTA Conference
• HTA Viewpoint – Presidential reflections