In This Issue
Wyevale Garden Centres announces sale of all remaining centres to British Garden Centres
Wyevale Garden Centres sells remaining trading business
Lets get Floral on Thursday at Glee for Greenfingers
Prongcroft brings fresh approach to garden care
Westland commit to £1.5m TV campaign for peat free growing media
GTN Bestsellers looks forward to new product bonanza
SBM switches to sole distribution deal with Stax
spoga+gafa 2019 - GTN Xtra photo tour
Elho launches more innovations at spoga+gafa
Bulldog turn spotlight on brand loved by pros and enthusiasts
Bulldog Pedigree goes from strength to strength
5p-a-pot payback encouraged Pennells customers to return 135k plastic pots for recycling in August...
Glee Retail Lab: sponsor EKJU explain's why it's a 'must see' feature
How to keep those bins 'wheelie' clean and fresh
Foundation funding awaits student horticulturists
Essex centre's August Christmas launch 'went bananas'
Tom Chambers launches Heritage collection
Ellen Mary to host Great British Growing Awards at Glee
Prinmeur's Christmas doormat supports Greenfingers charity
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Could your choice of uniform help save the planet?
Garden product sales climb by 38%
Malcolm Scott Consultants appoints new associate
Growing media still nearly 8% up
Mourners give ex-GTN staffer Bob a 'psychedelic' send-off
Still more growth for Wild Bird Care
Veg remains 40% up despite a quiet August
August dip for plant sales
The best of last week's
IGCA 2019 - 250 delegates from across the world visit UK garden centres
Dobbies link-up with Downton Abbey movie looks like an industry first
Council cleared of 'unprofessional conduct' over Hare Hatch Sheeplands garden centre
Who made it on to shortlist for Glee 2019 Buyers Power List?
Wyevale group shuts down e-commerce
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Garden Centre Photo Tours
Garden Centre Photo Tour - RHS Wisley New Plant Centre
spoga+gafa 2019 - GTN Xtra photo tour
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Learn trade secrets from Pret’s Guy Meakin at Lunch! show
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Wyevale Garden Centres announces sale of all remaining centres to British Garden Centres

Wyevale Garden Centres (“WGC”) today announces that it has sold its remaining trading business to British Garden Centres (“BGC”). This includes the sale of 20 centres today plus a further two centres expected to be sold shortly...

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Wyevale Garden Centres sells remaining trading business

Since the sale process began in May 2018, WGC have sold 145 garden centres in 57 separate transactions, with over 90% continuing to trade as garden centres and over 95% of garden centres colleagues continuing to work in a sector that they love..

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Lets get Floral on Thursday at Glee for Greenfingers

In support of Greenfingers Charity's special 20th anniversary year, the Glee team, supported by Garden Trade News, are this year urging exhibitors and visitors to Glee to put the floral FUN into FUNdraising at Glee on Thursday 12th September...

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Prongcroft brings fresh approach to garden care
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Prongcroft Ltd, of Nottingham, a company which brings a fresh approach to garden care and maintenance introduced The Garden Prong at Glee last September...

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Westland commit to £1.5m TV campaign for peat free growing media

Westland will become the first to promote the sale of peat free growing media on main stream TV with a £1.5m campaign in 2020...

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GTN Bestsellers looks forward to new product bonanza

 

After an August that has traded above last year, + 2.1%, and above the average for the past 9 years, + 2.3%, all eyes now focus on Glee to see what new products will become bestsellers for the next few years...

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SBM switches to sole distribution deal with Stax

SBM has appointed Stax as its exclusive distributor to the garden centre and nursery trade from October...

 

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spoga+gafa 2019 - GTN Xtra photo tour

Sleeker and lower furniture lines, urban gardening, re-use of plastic, masses of garden decoration lines and loads of BBQ's were the headlines at spoga+gafa in Koln...

 

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Elho launches more innovations at spoga+gafa

Brand new elho innovations that support and encourage everyone to give room to nature were launched at spoga+gafa earlier this month. Here’s a preview of just some of the new collection that will appeal to customers seeking clever solutions, stylish designs and trendy colours...

 

 

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Bulldog turn spotlight on brand loved by pros and enthusiasts

 

 

Bulldog Tools will showcase their famous solid-forged Premier brand loved by professionals and keen gardeners across the industry...

 

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Bulldog Pedigree goes from strength to strength

Bulldog Tools are showcasing more than four ranges at  Glee this week, taking the 240-year-old brand from strength to strength with professional, children’s and hobby gardener markets...

 

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5p-a-pot payback encouraged Pennells customers to return 135k plastic pots for recycling in August...

 

 

Pennells Garden Centre have saved more than 135,000 plastic pots from being burnt for fuel with their ambitious campaign during August of paying customers 5p credit for each pot they returned. The company says this meant customers got £6,825’s worth of plants for free during August!...

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Glee Retail Lab: sponsor EKJU explain's why it's a 'must see' feature

 

Latvian timber furniture and accessory makers EKJU are showcasing some of their best products in the Retail Lab at Glee this week. Here they tell us why a visit to the Lab should be on every

visitor's itinerary...

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Learn trade secrets from Pret’s Guy Meakin at Lunch! show

 

 

Guy Meakin, Pret A Manger’s UK food & coffee director, is the 60th and final speaker to be confirmed for lunch! 2019, which returns to ExCeL London this month...

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How to keep those bins 'wheelie' clean and fresh

 

 

Fledgling business Wheelie Klips will be at Glee this week to showcase to garden market buyers its solutions for keeping domestic wheelie bins clean and fresh...

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Foundation funding awaits student horticulturists

Student horticulturists are invited to apply for funding from The David Colegrave Foundation during Scholarship Season, which opened last week and runs until January 2020...

 

Above: the 2018-19 DCF scholarship winners.

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Essex centre's August Christmas launch 'went bananas'

Essex garden centre Summerhill says its Christmas launch over the August Bank Holiday weekend – an annual ritual for them –  went  “a bit bananas!”

 

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Tom Chambers launches Heritage collection

 

 

 

Tom Chambers is launching its Heritage collection of extra heavy duty obelisks, plant supports and a garden arch...

 

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Ellen Mary to host Great British Growing Awards at Glee

 

 

Gardening guru Ellen Mary has been confirmed as the host of Grow Your Own Magazine’s 2019 Great British Growing Awards at Glee on Tuesday (1.30pm in the Retail Growth Theatre, hall 20)...

 

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Prinmeur's Christmas doormat supports Greenfingers charity

Glee exhibitor Primeur is to support the Greenfingers Charity with a specially-develeoped Christmas Doormat.

 

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