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Garden centre customers get the 'Love Spring' message
STV first to market with newly approved bait formations for control of mice and rats
Fundraising for Greenfingers exceeds £500,000 in 2017
Orchid drip feeder frenzy hits garden centres
Plant sales rocket ahead
SBM Life Science pre-season sales up by 46% year on year
Bionema launch specialist training courses to boost Biopesticide efficacy
Saddle up for the Garden Re-Leaf Cycle Ride Challenge
Squire's plant show heralds start of gardening season
Highfield Garden World expands its planteria team
Tong Garden Centre raises over £20,000 for local charities
Channa sales ban on hold after an OATA challenge
Haskins Roundstone donates bird boxes to school
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Red Baron onion sets back on top
Seed sowing gets sales growing
Wild Bird Care sales dominated by Gardman
Malcolm Scott Consultants strengthens team
TV gardener David Domoney to partner with Everest again in 2018
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Kelkay bought by US company for $56million
All hands to the pump at Gardman as backlog gets cleared
QD Group acquires The Barn Garden Centre in Peterborough
Squire's eyes investment opportunties after parting with Windsor centre
Major garden centre projects near completion
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Whitco CEO Jeff Whitaker passes away after short illness
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All hands to the pump at Gardman as backlog gets cleared

"It looks a bit like the scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark when they put the Ark of the Covenant away in that warehouse."  That is the description Pete Utting, CEO of Gardman uses to describe their new 70,000 pallet space warehouse at Daventry which GTN Xtra visited last week to see just how they are getting on with getting back on schedule after the teething problems encountered during January.

 

"We are now picking at well above our normal peak season rate and that will mean the backlog will have been cleared by the end of February." Pete explained as we took a tour of the facility which is run for Gardman by DHL on the warehousing side and XPO for transport.

 

In the warehouse it is clear to see that the problem is being solved in the short term by adding more people to the teams to hit the numbers required and garden centre customers can be reassured their orders are being given extra priority in that the sales team are also helping out.

 

"We've had Scott McCabe and his really dedicated team based at Daventry and often staying until midnight night picking themselves. They've been fully trained to enable anything we have missed to be picked immediately and on the first vehicle out."

 

"We really have been putting the effort in to try and look after our customers. We are hyper conscious of it."

 

Paul Barker and Jason Perrins with Pete Utting in the picking area: "We've been picking day and night, its all hands to the pump and we provide extra QC."

 

 

 

 

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