In This Issue
Best Mothers Day Ever? And what about March?
GTN's Newshound joins the crowds at the Wyevale Crowland Closing Down Sale
Durston's plea to business on recycling
APAC to build new centre next door to Wyevale at Leicester
March 2019 sales now heading in the right direction
LifestyleGarden® confirms exclusive new partnership with the Eden Project
Notcutts celebrates success at annual conference
Cherry Lane creates 18 jobs at former Wyevale Barnett Hill
Co.Antrim centre doubles workforce to 100 after expansion
Haskins Garden Centres introduce ‘adopt a houseplant’ scheme
Plans for 32 homes on unused part of Notts garden centre
31 locations for FlowerTrials visitors in June.
Great lead up to Mother's Day for plants
Garden retail set to power ahead as industry defies gloomy High Street outlook
Bord na Mona launches branded lorry fleet to raise profile
Haskins Ferndown raises more than £5,500 for Autism Wessex
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Katy Golden joins The Great British Card Company
Growing media sales heading for record March
Planters defends its 'Live chicks for Easter' post
Mass gardening activity gets underway
Warm weather boosts February garden centre sales
Tomato plants dominate Bestsellers Veg-2-Gro chart
Now is the time to stock up on Neudorff’s fridge-free nematodes
Wild Bird Care sales on the increase
The best of last week's
Wyevale Crowland Garden Centre to close
Industry pioneer Mike Dunnett dies
"The unifying energising effect it has is priceless." Alan Roper on the Blue Diamond Awards evening
Dobbies signs with Nisa for everyday groceries
Garden Re-Leaf Day Walk and Cycle Challenge boasts record numbers
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Best Mothers Day Ever? And what about March?

GTN Bestsellers analysis shows Mothers Day 2019 coming up just short of the previous record for 2011 in terms of volume sales and March up by 40% on last year.  But how did that translate to turnovers?  Were records smashed across the country?  

Read comments from Bents, Blue Diamond, Cowells, Dobbies, Ayletts, Hilliers, Poplars, Perrywood, The Old Railway Line, The Gardens Group, Langlands, Planters, Haskins and Fron Goch
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GTN's Newshound joins the crowds at the Wyevale Crowland Closing Down Sale

 

GTN's Newshound pops into Wyevale Crowland where they have started a "50% Off Closing Down Sale" and reports on the speculation about the other 96 centres still for sale...

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Durston's plea to business on recycling
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As the World-wide issue of recycling plastic continues to dominate news reports, Somerset based Durston Garden Products Ltd reaches out to all organisations big or small to follow its lead and introduce 100% recyclable packaging...

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APAC to build new centre next door to Wyevale at Leicester

 

 

Wyevale’s Rowena garden centre at Leicester is to get a potential new competitor right next door after APAC Group unveiled plans for a retail floristry centre on an adjacent site...

 

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March 2019 sales now heading in the right direction

 

Sales for the fourth week of March – Garden Re-Leaf Day weekend – headed in the right direction towards the levels achieved in 2017 and 2014 with core gardening activity, especially Veg-2-Gro sales and growing media leading the way...

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LifestyleGarden® confirms exclusive new partnership with the Eden Project

LifestyleGarden® has confirmed they will be working exclusively in partnership with the Eden Project, helping to further drive their common goal of promoting environmental responsibility and sustainability...

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Notcutts celebrates success at annual conference

Family-owned garden centre group, Notcutts Garden Centres, has hosted its annual conference and awards dinner to celebrate the success of colleagues and teams across its 18 garden centres nationwide.

Notcutts Booker Garden Centre won the award for Best Customer Service.

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Cherry Lane creates 18 jobs at former Wyevale Barnett Hill

QD subsidiary Cherry Lane is to create 18 new jobs at the Clent garden centre in Worcestershire it has acquired from Wyevale and which is now trading as Barnett Hill by Cherry Lane...

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Co.Antrim centre doubles workforce to 100 after expansion

Colemans Garden Centre at Templepatrick in Co. Antrim has doubled its workforce to 100 following completion of a £5 million expansion project that added 32,000 sq.ft of retail space...

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Haskins Garden Centres introduce ‘adopt a houseplant’ scheme
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Haskins Garden Centre group has introduced an adoption scheme to keep up with customer demand for houseplants...

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Plans for 32 homes on unused part of Notts garden centre

Work on the development of 32 homes on an unused part of the Brookfields Garden Centre site in Nottinghamshire could start towards the end of the year...

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31 locations for FlowerTrials visitors in June.

More than 60 plant breeders at 31 locations in The Netherlands and Germany will open their doors in June for FlowerTrials 2019 to exhibit the latest pot and bedding plants...

 

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Great lead up to Mother's Day for plants
 

 

Plant sales bounced back up to be above 2017’s levels for the fourth week of March by 1% which is a great position to be in before Mother’s Day. Rhododendron were the highest GTN Bestsellers Plants chart climbers, up 15 places to No 23.

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Garden retail set to power ahead as industry defies gloomy High Street outlook

While Britain’s High Streets are facing economic headwinds that have seen big name retailers consigned to history, garden centres are bucking the trend and experiencing healthy levels of growth...

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Bord na Mona launches branded lorry fleet to raise profile

Bord na Móna has welcomed a new fleet of 15 branded lorries to the UK, in a bid to boost brand awareness as it embarks on its most promising season in the UK market to date...

 

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Haskins Ferndown raises more than £5,500 for Autism Wessex

 

The team at Haskins in Ferndown presented Autism Wessex with a cheque for £5,899.45 this week. All money raised from events held at the Ferndown centre throughout 2018 and collected from Haskins’ ‘Wishing Well’ was donated to the charity...

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