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Terra Firma to stay as owners of Wyevale Garden Centres...for the time being!
Water fights, high lights and tools at dawn – it’s Glee time
Autumn promo gets Crest Garden off to flying start
Lighting products still shining brightly as product sales soar
We plan to put zip back into grow-your-own say Crest and Plantpak
Crunch challenge looms for garden centre 'rising stars'
If catering and food are your growth areas our new Food Xtra will help you
New general manager for Haskins Ferndown
Number of households with gardens is falling suggest HTA
Another Which? Best Buy for Gro-Sure
Garden Centre Manager - London
Head of Buying - Cambridgeshire
Garden Care Team Leader - Hertfordshire
Sales Executive - Norfolk Leisure
Junior Buyer - Cambridgeshire
It’s the Great British Bake Off at Taylors Bulbs
Handy become sole distribution partner for Flymo
Rhubarb makes welcome return to Veg chart
The UK’s largest garden machinery wholesaler is on the move
Winner of GIMA Innovator’s Seed Corn Fund has been chosen
Growing media sales remain positive
HTA renew attack on 'outdated' Sunday trading laws
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Terra Firma to stay as owners of Wyevale Garden Centres...for the time being!


Despite reports circulating in the US and UK that private equity firm Terra Firma are ready to sell Wyevale Garden Centres, 
a source with knowledge of the matter confirmed to GTN Xtra there is no sales process for the company at this time...
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Water fights, high lights and tools at dawn – it’s Glee time



How will the battle for the Bestsellers of 2015 shape up at Glee? As GTN Xtra receives news of all the new products and new exhibitors that will be at Glee in a couple of weeks time we’re starting to speculate on where the new Bestsellers for 2015 will come from...

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Autumn promo gets Crest Garden off to flying start

More than 300 retailers have taken up the first promotion offered by Crest Garden, the new supplier set up by Nick Davies with backing from Westland ...

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Lighting products still shining brightly as product sales soar
 

For another week, lighting products are brightening up the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart, with wood effect lines from Gardman still showing up well. The highest new entry is Smart Solar Golden Pearl Mosaic Stake Light (pictured)...

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We plan to put zip back into grow-your-own say Crest and Plantpak
   
Desch Plantpak and new suppliers Crest Garden have started a joint venture  designed to inject new life into the  ‘grow your own’ propagation market...
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Crunch challenge looms for garden centre 'rising stars'
The Garden Centre Association and Westland Horticulture Rising Stars 2014 Programme is holding its third and final Masterclass at Van Hage Garden Centre in Peterborough next month...
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New general manager for Haskins Ferndown










Haskins have appointed Matt Hill as general manager at their Ferndown centre near Bournenouth...
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Number of households with gardens is falling suggest HTA



The number UK households with gardens could be declining, according to the latest HTA analysis...
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Another Which? Best Buy for Gro-Sure






 Westland’s Gro-Sure All Purpose Liquid Plant Food has achieved a Which? Best Buy...
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