In This Issue
SOLEX Exhibition to kick off festivities with Awards Ceremony and Afterparty
Whisk out your tongs: SOLEX's Fire Food & Outdoor Living Evening returns for its second sizzling year
Special hotel rates for SOLEX Visitors - limited availability - book now
Dobbies appoints Jonathan Wass as Chief Financial Officer
Woodmansterne launch W-Select Gift Packaging Category Management
Jardinopia seeks Senior Sales Account Managers/New Business Generators
GIMA Awards are back for 2024 – entries now open
Navigating the current challenges in garden retail - GIMA Conference report and pictures
Wet February sees modest market growth
David Domoney transforms front garden LIVE on ITV’s This Morning
Dutch flowers back in St. Peter’s Square in Rome at Easter
Book tickets for horticulture’s party of the year
RHS Director General negotiates with children designers
94% of exhibition space at spoga+gafa already sold
British Garden Centres' commitment to home-grown plants
Bolster spring sales with exclusive Apta garden centre deals
Gordale raises over £35,000 from Charity Santa’s Grotto
Leading ladder specialist receives prestigious double global design award for setting a new standard
Asteraceae: a new RHS Gifts for Gardeners collection from Burgon & Ball
GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards Bumper Issue - read on-line here
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Princess Margriet opens Keukenhof’s Symphony of Colours anniversary concert
The best of last week's
Dobbies gears up for the 1st day of spring - Quote from Commercial Director Andy Hannan
Garden Re-Leaf Day 2024 - Southern Sponsored Walk for Greenfingers photo gallery
Garden Re-Leaf Day 2024 - Northern Sponsored Walk for Greenfingers photo gallery
GCA’s February BoT figures reflect a wet month with a ‘sunny outlook’
Group Commitment, GTN Interview with Caroline Owen, Chair of the Tillington Group in GTN March 2024 Issue
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North and South Regions
 
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SOLEX Exhibition to kick off festivities with Awards Ceremony and Afterparty
SOLEX Afterparty | Tuesday 9 July | 1830 -2230 | Hilton Metropole | NEC, Birmingham

SOLEX Exhibition, the premier event that gathers the best and brightest of the outdoor leisure industry, has announced an Awards Ceremony & Afterparty to kick off the excitement of the summer event on the Tuesday 9 July. Marking its 16th year, SOLEX Exhibition has curated a night of celebration, networking, and a thrilling football-themed evening to coincide with the highly anticipated UEFA Euro 2024 semi-finals...

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Whisk out your tongs: SOLEX's Fire Food & Outdoor Living Evening returns for its second sizzling year
Fire Food & Outdoor Living Event | Wednesday 10 July | 1800 -2000 | Hall 5 | NEC, Birmingham

Ready your grills, sharpen your knives, and stoke the fires! SOLEX Exhibition 2024 is about to welcome back the crowd-pleasing, taste-bud-teasing Fire Food and Outdoor Living Evening incorporating our BBQ Competition, which is set to light up the evening with charm and flavour...

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Special hotel rates for SOLEX Visitors - limited availability - book now

In order to ensure that everyone can fully immerse themselves in the Exhibition and exciting SOLEX Evening Events, the SOLEX team have secured Special Hotel Rates For Visitors who wish to attend these events and stay overnight on Tuesday 9th or Wednesday 10th July...

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Dobbies appoints Jonathan Wass as Chief Financial Officer

Dobbies has strengthened its senior leadership team with the appointment of Jonathan Wass as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Joining Dobbies from his role as CFO of Cancer Research UK, Jonathan brings more than 20 years’ experience from across some of the biggest names in British retail. He is a former Chief Financial Officer at Boots UK; Commercial Finance Director at Sainsbury’s; Finance Director at Morrisons; and Head of Business Accounting at Asda...

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Woodmansterne launch W-Select Gift Packaging Category Management
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The launch of an exciting new category from Woodmansterne means customers can now get everything they need to coordinate their gift packaging...

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Jardinopia seeks Senior Sales Account Managers/New Business Generators
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Jardinopia Limited, a multi award-winning designer and manufacturer of home and garden gift products, is looking for two experienced Senior Sales Account Managers/New Business Generators for both the North and South Regions of the UK to help take the business to the next level...

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GIMA Awards are back for 2024 – entries now open

Entries are now open for this year’s GIMA Awards, which be presented at the Gala Dinner taking place on 7th November at the five-star Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales.

Sipcam were the Sword of Excellence Winners in 2023.

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Navigating the current challenges in garden retail - GIMA Conference report and pictures

Retail and economic challenges, sustainability, and adaptation to changing market dynamics were just some of the key topics that were explored at the annual GIMA Day Conference, which took place at Horticulture House, Chilton...

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Wet February sees modest market growth

Despite facing a deluge of rain across the United Kingdom, the Horticultural Trade Association’s (HTA) Market Update in March 2024 reports that garden centres in February 2024 remained positive, with a +6% increase in overall garden centre sales compared to the same period last year...

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David Domoney transforms front garden LIVE on ITV’s This Morning

To raise the importance of a front garden, David Domoney and his team transformed a front garden in a real-time live television broadcast in under two hours.

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Dutch flowers back in St. Peter’s Square in Rome at Easter

It has become a more than good custom that at Easter, during the Holy Mass celebrated by the Pope, all kinds of colourful flower arrangements decorate St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, in Rome...

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Book tickets for horticulture’s party of the year
Party for Perennial 2024 – Thursday 9 May, Core, Bank, London, EC4N 1TX

Party for Perennial this spring at your charity party of the year! Let’s come together to make a difference for all those working with plants, trees, flowers or grass...

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RHS Director General negotiates with children designers

After some serious negotiating RHS Director General Clare Matterson has persuaded the co-designers of the RHS No Adults Allowed Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, pupils from Sulivan School, London, to agree that adults can enter the children’s garden..

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94% of exhibition space at spoga+gafa already sold

In what has been challenging trading conditions, it’s encouraging to hear that 94% of exhibition space at this year’s Spoga+gafa has already been accounted. Taking place from June 16-18 at Koelnmesse in Cologne, the event is the world’s biggest trade fair for outdoor decoration, bbq’s and accessories...

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Group Commitment, GTN Interview with Caroline Owen, Chair of the Tillington Group in GTN March 2024 Issue

GTN March 2024 read on-line here. In this issue:

  • Gift Packaging from Woodmansterne
  • Group Commitment – GTN Interview with Caroline Owen, Chair of the Tillington Group
  • New retail solutions from Artevesi
  • What’s Hot in 2024 – New products launched at the Garden Press Event
  • Maximising seed sales at Mr Fothergills
  • 25 years of Greenfingers FUNdraising
  • Garden Re-Leaf Day 2024
  • Strictly Blue Diamond – Exclusive Awards coverage
  • New at Solex for 2024
  • Products to delight from Spring Fair
  • Be the best plant specialists – GTN Planteria special report
  • A brighter shade of green – LOFA Column
  • Three days of PATS in September 2024
  • Celebrating 125 years – HTA Column
  • The start is everything – GIMA Column
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British Garden Centres' commitment to home-grown plants

British Garden Centres has announced its renewed commitment to providing customers with quality and value through an extensive range of locally grown plants, cultivated right here in the UK...

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Bolster spring sales with exclusive Apta garden centre deals
 

Apta has created five special spring promotions, including up to 39% off RRPs, to ensure that garden retailers across the country can offer their customers access to some of the newest planter designs...

 

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Gordale raises over £35,000 from Charity Santa’s Grotto

Gordale Garden and Home Centre has announced the remarkable success of its annual Charity Santa’s Grotto. The event, held in collaboration with The Hospice of the Good Shepherd, not only spread festive cheer but also raised an impressive £35,836.04 for a worthy cause...

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Leading ladder specialist receives prestigious double global design award for setting a new standard
 

Leading garden ladder specialist, Henchman, has been awarded the prestigious iF Design Award 2024 for not one, but two of its pioneering garden products - the Fully Adjustable Tripod Ladderand Henchman Lifting Harness...

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Asteraceae: a new RHS Gifts for Gardeners collection from Burgon & Ball

Burgon & Ball is launching an elegant new design collection in its top-selling ‘RHS Gifts for Gardeners’ range of gardening gifts. Entitled ‘Asteraceae’, the new design showcases flowers from the daisy family...

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GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards Bumper Issue - read on-line here

GTN February 2024 - GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards Bumper Issue

  • The Greatest Christmas Awards presentations at Spring Fair
  • GCA Conference Award winners
  • Primeur: the home of doormats
  • Environmental perceptions of garden centres
  • Westlands New Horizon Community Fund
  • Busy Bee tops the customer vote for Christmas greatness
  • 23 pages of judges photos and comments from The Greatest Christmas Awards start here: Barton Grange, Cooks, BGC Harrogate, Pugh’s, Gates, Haskins Snowhill, Woodlands, Kent, Squires Badshot Lea, Polhill, Old Railway Line, Klondyke High Legh, Poundbury, Birkacre, Alton, Blue Diamond Newbridge, Garsons Esher, Brimsmore, Glendoick, Chessington, Wentworth, Klondyke Astbury Meadow, Cambridge Home & Garden, Bents, BGC Studley, Coolings, Newquay, The Grange, Garsons Titchfield, Keydell, Perrywood Tiptree, BGC, Dobbies, Gouldings Santa Experience, Dobbies Edinburgh and Tewkesbury, Mackenzie & Cruickshank, Munros, Pengelly, Planters Tamworth
  • Thank you to our Sponsors
  • Flashes of Christmas Inspiration
  • Harrogate Show Ideas for Christmas 2024
  • Planting Manifesto Ideas – HTA Column
  • Supply Chain Challenges – GIMA Column
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