In This Issue
Garden industry starts New Year with major changes at retail giants
Shake-up at the top of Dobbies but Nicholas Marshall stays
Jobs at risk at Wyevale Garden Centres following ‘challenging trading conditions’
Global giant Venanpri Tools acquires Burgon & Ball
A challenging Christmas...but not for the Bestsellers
Bumper year for Top 100 Bestselling Christmas Products
New products replace old favourites
Cyclamen are the Autumn and Christmas winner
GTN's Greatest Christmas Team Winners to be announced during Glee@Spring Fair
Two new cordless lawnmowers from Webb Garden Power
Arrange a viewing to see Gardman’s Christmas Spectacular 2018 display
Gardman 2018 Christmas Spectacular includes 125 stand-out products
Bonningtons announces new website launch
Schoolboy sees gardening glove design become a reality
Enterprising nursery supplies ambitious airport project
Looking for Christmas Ideas for 2018?
Paul Dye loses battle with cancer
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Squire’s in Long Ditton is group's Garden Centre of the Year
Sign up to a Garden Re-Leaf Day challenge
Unique Selling Points of Gardman's Christmas winners
Garden industry welcomes Defra 25-Year Environment Plan
Hillier appoints new Head of Wholesale Nurseries
spoga+gafa 2018 on course for success
HTA welcomes Lloyds Cardnet as a Preferred Partner
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
HTA Catering Conference 2018 - ‘A Recipe for Growth’
Fine Food Show North serves up three course feast
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Garden industry starts New Year with major changes at retail giants

What a week that was! The garden industry has certainly started the New Year with a frenzy of activity as major changes take place at retail giants Wyevale Garden Centres and Dobbies, plus news that award-winning Burgon & Ball has been bought by a Canadian company.  As a result GTN's Newshound is having to take a rest in his kennel to recuperate...

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Shake-up at the top of Dobbies but Nicholas Marshall stays

Rumours circulating in the garden industry today that Nicholas Marshall had left his job as CEO of Dobbies have proved be unfounded although two of his senior team – Lorrie Robertson and Andrew West – have left the company. Commuting to Edinburgh has been given as the reason for their decision to leave.

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Jobs at risk at Wyevale Garden Centres following ‘challenging trading conditions’

Wyevale Garden Centres have revealed that challenging trading conditions have forced them to review their structure at head office with the risk of job losses...

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Global giant Venanpri Tools acquires Burgon & Ball

Venanpri Tools, the Hand Tools division of Venanpri Group and owner of the Bellota and Corona brands, announced yesterday (Thursday) it has acquired Burgon & Ball Limited. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

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A challenging Christmas...but not for the Bestsellers

 

This week's GTN Bestsellers focussed on Christmas 2017, which many garden centres described as “Challenging.”  Indeed overall trading was down on all of the previous three years in the run up to Christmas, as our All Product index graph above shows...

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Bumper year for Top 100 Bestselling Christmas Products
 

It was a bumper year for sales of the Top 100 Christmas Products as analysed by GTN Bestsellers from garden centre EPOS data. Suki Personalised Angel Ornaments are the No1 Bestselling line for the year.

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New products replace old favourites

Wow, what a year of change when it comes the the Christmas Bestsellers for 2017. Sixty out of the Top 100 Bestsellers are New Entries, underlining the importance of New Product Development...

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Cyclamen are the Autumn and Christmas winner
 

In a chart of the bestselling plants over the Autumn and Christmas period from the end of September to Christmas Eve, Cyclamen are the clear No 1, outselling Pansies in second place by 66%...

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GTN's Greatest Christmas Team Winners to be announced during Glee@Spring Fair

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The votes are being counted and the judges meeting to decide who will be the winners in GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards, sponsored by Gardman, ready for the announcement and presentation of awards at a special Greatest Awards Winners Breakfast Reception on Tuesday 6th February in Hall 3 as part of Glee@Spring Fair...

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Two new cordless lawnmowers from Webb Garden Power

Webb Garden Power has introduced two new cordless lawnmowers to its extensive range of petrol and electric walk-behind mowers for domestic users in 2018...

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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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HTA Catering Conference 2018 - ‘A Recipe for Growth’

Bookings are now open for the HTA Catering Conference 2018, ‘A Recipe for Growth’, which takes place on Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 June at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. This successful two-day event and dinner is aimed at all those in garden centre catering from business owners and managers to chefs and front of house staff...

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Fine Food Show North serves up three course feast

With a keynote talk from food critic, writer and broadcaster, Jay Rayner, The Jolly Tasty pop-up pub sampling Great Taste award-winning beers & ciders, retail clinics with the School of Fine Food and Shopper’s Anonymous all on the line up, the new look Fine Food Show North (formerly Harrogate Find Food Show) is set to be bigger and better than ever before...

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Arrange a viewing to see Gardman’s Christmas Spectacular 2018 display

You can arrange a viewing of Gardman's Christmas Spectacular 2018 display at one of three venues – Peterborough showroom, Daventry warehouse or the Pop-Up Showroom at The Majestic Hotel, Harrogate...

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Gardman 2018 Christmas Spectacular includes 125 stand-out products

 

This year the Gardman 2018 Christmas Spectacular includes 125 stand-out Christmas products, 84 of which are BRAND NEW and consist of a comprehensive range of battery operated lighting, dual power and solar power lighting, home furnishings, doormats, garden décor, natural botanical decorations, artificial decorations, storage solutions and tree stands…all set at attractive price points to maximise those seasonal sales...

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Bonningtons announces new website launch
New customer-led features promise a much improved user experience

Bonnington Plastics Ltd, the Nottingham based importer and distributor of home, gardening and leisure goods, has launched a new e-commerce website...

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Schoolboy sees gardening glove design become a reality
 

Ten-year-old Aidan Parmar saw the realisation of his glove design when he received a surprise presentation of the finished article by Briers in front of his classmates and parents at Brocks Hill Primary School’s morning assembly in Leicestershire...

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Enterprising nursery supplies ambitious airport project

 

Johnsons of Whixley has supplied a range of trees, plants and grasses as part of the construction of a new £15m link road at Manchester Airport...

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Looking for Christmas Ideas for 2018?

If you are on your way to Harrogate and wanting some extra input of ideas for your Christmas 2018, take a look at GTN's photo tours of 30+ garden centres this Christmas including:

  • Aylett Nurseries
  • Barton Grange
    Baytree
    Bents
    Blue Diamond Trentham
    Brookside, Kent
    Castle Gardens
    Daleside Klondyke
    Dobbies Mellville
    Fresh at Burcot
    Fron Goch
    Frosts Woburn Sands
    Gardenwise
    Gouldings
    Haskins Ferndown
    Haskins West End
    Hetland
    Kirktown
    Mains of Drum
    Millbrook Gravesend
    Notcutts Solihull
    Old Railway Line
    Planters Tamworth
    Pughs Radyr
    Raemoir
    Ruxley Manor
    Silverbirch
    Summerhills
    Thurrock
    Whitehall Lacock
    Woodlands Ash, Kent
See GTN's Christmas Garden Centre photo tours
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