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Sale of Solus Garden & Leisure edges closer
New collections set to mark Supremo launch at SOLEX
Armitage's gets ready to welcome Tour de France
Perrywood goes bike-crazy ahead of the Tour in Essex
It has been more of an average month than a flaming June
Rising sales make it a Chilli Fiesta for Suttons
Mr Fothergill's world-first gives seed packets a new look
Catch all the news from SOLEX in the SOLEX SUN
Buy your tickets for The Greatest Awards Summer Garden Party - it's on Monday 7th July - the first evening of SOLEX
Sir Roy Strong a hit at Wyevale Nurseries’ open day
Revenues at The Garden Centre Group increase by £17m
TGCG will add to its growing portfolio, says Chief Executive
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Sale of Solus Garden & Leisure edges closer
With speculation mounting that a sale of Solus Garden & Leisure is imminent, the administrators acting on behalf of the company re-iterated the fact that they were hopeful of completing a sale. And Ross Yealland told GTN Xtra there could be an update on the matter next week...
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New collections set to mark Supremo launch at SOLEX

Supremo, the new brand replacing Bellagio UK, is set to get off to a flying start at SOLEX, with the launch of new collections in some of its most popular outdoor furniture ranges...
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Armitage's gets ready to welcome Tour de France


Armitage's Home & Garden near Huddersfield is getting ready for an invasion of cycling fans as the Tour de France passes by on Sunday. Will Armitage has even allowing a field to be used as a spectator car park during the stage and will be offering fans a BBQ...
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Perrywood goes bike-crazy ahead of the Tour in Essex


Perrywood Garden Centre near Tiptree in Essex has decorated and planted up ten bikes which are displayed in-store ahead of the Tour de France coming to Essex...
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Buy your tickets for The Greatest Awards Summer Garden Party - it's on Monday 7th July - the first evening of SOLEX
 
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It has been more of an average month than a flaming June


Total volume sales for June, recorded by the GTN Bestsellers Epos data from garden centres, shows June 2014 down 16% on 2013, up 8% on 2012 and 17% up on 2011. Taking the average June sales volumes for the five previous years, it has been a just-below-par month...
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Rising sales make it a Chilli Fiesta for Suttons
 
Suttons Chilli Fiesta plants are again the biggest winners in this week’s GTN Bestsellers Veg-2-Gro chart with nine entries...
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Mr Fothergill's world-first gives seed packets a new look
Suffolk seedsman Mr Fothergill's believes it is the only company in the world capable of filling two different types of seeds into a perforated twin pack of two discrete chambers - and it is putting its technology to good use for the 2014/15 season with the introduction of its Planting Companions range...
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Catch all the news from SOLEX in the SOLEX SUN
 
The Garden Trade News team will be at SOLEX to bring coverage of the event for special editions of the enewsletter SOLEX SUN.
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Sir Roy Strong a hit at Wyevale Nurseries’ open day


Sir Roy Strong, landscape designer, writer and ex-Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, was the guest speaker during an open day at Wyevale Nurseries, one of the UK’s leading commercial nurseries...
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Revenues at The Garden Centre Group increase by £17m


The Garden Centre Group is reporting an increase in revenues by £17 million to £276.2 million for the year ending December 29, 2013, while operating profits showed a decline of £6.1 million to £22.0m. The figures were issued today by Trellis Capital Limited, the holding company for TGCG, in its Annual Report and financial statements...
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TGCG will add to its growing portfolio, says Chief Executive

The boss of The Garden Centre Group, which has bought a total of 11 centres in the past year, has revealed that the company will continue to grow at a similar rate over the next two or three years.


Kevin Bradshaw, who became CEO of TGCG in November 2012, told GTN Xtra: “It’s a fragmented industry, and as the market leader we’re still relatively small compared to the overal market. I can see significant growth from this point forwards."

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