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Caulders buys Loch Lomond Homes & Gardens
Great start to the New Year, reports GTN Bestsellers
Hayes Garden World announce sad passing of Elizabeth Hayes
£1.5million investment in Kelkay's expansion
Planners approve major project at Hillier's Newbury site
Strong pre-season orders for Neudorff says distributor DLF
Perrywood hands over £21k to its charities of the year
‘Orse racin’ returns to GCA conference in aid of Greenfingers
Brimsmore Gardens helps The Hub ‘green up’ for RHS It’s Your Neighbourhood scheme
Survey highlights ‘lonely’ UK as RHS announces garden to encourage nation to make friends through plants at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Drive to Monte Carlo in an old banger to FUNdraise for Greenfingers
Inspiration for garden centres at IPM Essen
Squire's rewards staff who made a difference
Tulips in Amsterdam...200,000 of them.
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Former Wyevale operations director joins digital commerce firm
Make hay while the sun shines
New Year plant sales are supercharged
Early birds get 28% increase
Change at the top for Wild Bird Care
Johnsons demonstrates green credentials with new compostable plant labels
HTA urges Scottish MPs to vote against scrapping Uniform Business Rates
The best of last week's
Dobbies Christmas trading up by 44%
Bird food company fined £50k over accident that led to finger amputations
Best year on record for garden centre volume sales
New name for Bord na Mona retail in UK
Garden Centre Photo Tours
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Inspiration for garden centres at IPM Essen

Garden centres will find plenty of inspiration at this year's IPM ESSEN (28 to 31 January 2020), including innovative and practical sales concepts and new presentation ideas.

 

More than 1,500 exhibitors from around 50 nations will show their products and services. The IPM Discovery Centre in Hall 7 will primarily focus on measures for increasing sales. Complete POS situations will be presented there, with recommended display solutions.

 

The meeting place for buyers will be the IPM Discovery Centre in Hall 7 under the management of creative director Romeo Sommers, who curates (Glee’s Retail Lab). POS concepts and bold ideas for measures to boost footfall and customer retention will be introduced there – a blernd of showroom, communication area, think tank and a Hall of Fame. Participating exhibitors and products will be staged as ‘heroes’ that can be used to tell exciting POS stories . The stand will feature professional shopfitting with a garden centre style.

 

The Innovation Showcase organized by the Central Horticultural Association (ZVG) will celebrate the best breeding in bedding and balcony plants, spring-flowering plants, flowering house plants, green house plants, woody plants, perennials and tub plants.

 

Picture: Guernsey Clematis Nursery

 

The Commercial Horticultural Association (CHA) is once again organising the British Group at IPM Essen, supported by the Department for International Trade and presenting a range of companies offering new varieties and innovative technologies in Halls 7 and 3. Find out more from the CHA team on the information stand 7-A24.e.

 

Exhibitors include:-

  • Air-Pot® – stand no. 7–A24.c
  • David Austin Roses – stand no. 7-A24.a
  • Fairweather’s Nursery – stand no. 7-A24.f
  • G Plants Ltd – stand no. 7-B24.b
  • The Guernsey Clematis Nursery – stand no. 7-A24.b 
  • INDO Lighting – stand no. 3-B37.a
  • Must Have Perennials – stand no. 7-B24.d
  • PPC Labels – stand no. 7-A24.d
  • Tildenet Ltd – stand no. 7-A24.g
  • Tyne Moulds & Machinery Co Ltd - stand no. 7-B24.a
  • Whetman Plants International – stand no. 7-B24.c
  • Wonderwall –stand no. 7-B24.d

 

Visitors to the CHA stand will be able to access a meeting area with refreshments and can take a copy of the CHA Buyers’ Guide a copy of the UK government-supported publication highlighting UK Capability in Commercial Horticulture.

 

A day ticket for IPM ESSEN costs €23 online, with the price at the door €35. Opening times:  9am- 6pm Tuesday to Thursday and from 9am- 5pm Friday.

 

Find out more here.

 

 

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