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Which garden centre will be sold next...and will Wyevale buy Dobbies...?
Dutch Retail Experience is a real source for inspiration and ideas
Dobbies aims to raise £50,000 for charity during 150th anniversary year
Alyson Haywood leaves Wyevale to set up consultancy business
Growing media sales give January figures a boost
Bayer Garden takes to the road to help retailers drive up sales
UK stocks of world’s largest tomato sell out in 36 hours
James Wong becomes the 'face' of Fiskars
Cold weather boosts sales of polar bears
Norfolk Leisure full of Christmas spirit...and it's now February!
Darlac set to launch 'most innovative product to date'
Stewart Garden assures quality with British manufactured electric propagators
Mr Fothergill's honoured for sales of poppy seeds
Gardening celebs get ready for 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz
Crest Garden supports Greenfingers
Eden Halls launch greenhouse range with 'no trip' zero threshold
Centre Manager - Redfields Garden Centre, Fleet
Centre Manager - Jersey
Garden Centre Manager - East Midlands
Key Accounts Manager - Thetford, Norfolk
Plant Area Assistant - Essex
Plant Area Supervisor - London
Adventurer James Ketchell to talk pushing limits at APL Awards ceremony
Driving ban overturned for garden centre owner
2014 ends with strong Christmas season for garden centres
Vegetable seed packet sales rocket
Writtle College postgraduate wins prestigious garden design student award
Keen gardeners get ready to grow
Giant snowdrop discovered in the Cotswolds
Garden RELEAF goes "down under"
Yankee Candle revolutionises flameless fragrance with new Scenterpiece range
CRoP Clinics to help HTA members save money
Empty shops inevitable if retailers don't adapt
British Flowers Week 2015 dates announced
British Ornamental Plant Producers launch new version of the Grower Standard
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Which garden centre will be sold next...and will Wyevale buy Dobbies...?


Blue Diamond secured the first garden centre purchase of the year and speculation has now turned towards which garden centres are next on the 'hit' list especially after the Wyevale CEO told managers and suppliers last week they were talking to a chain of over 30 centres...
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Dutch Retail Experience is a real source for inspiration and ideas


If you are looking for really inspirational ideas for displays and garden centre layout then the Tuinzaken (the Dutch equivalent of GTN) Retail Experience is the place to start...
See photos from our visit to the Dutch Retail Experience Trade Fair
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Dobbies aims to raise £50,000 for charity during 150th anniversary year
Dobbies Garden Centres celebrates its 150th anniversary this year and to mark this milestone the company is looking to support a national charity that champions the benefits of gardening for either the environment or to benefit good causes...



"In June, we’ll be holding a special event across our 35 stores to mark the occasion with the proceeds going to the appointed charity partner," says Dobbies MD Andy King.
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Alyson Haywood leaves Wyevale to set up consultancy business
Alyson Haywood has left her role as Wyevale Garden Centres horticultural quality manager to start her own consultancy business. Leaving a company that owns 148 stores, she now wants to "help horticultural businesses thrive against the onslaught of fierce competition."
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Growing media sales give January figures a boost


It’s a good job that the really keen gardeners don’t mind the cold weather. Considering the big variance in temperatures year-on-year during January, it would be expected there would be an overall drop in volumes, down 8%.  But, leading the way in the GTN Bestsellers charts are Growing Media sales, up 7% on January 2014 and up 42% on 2013...
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Bayer Garden takes to the road to help retailers drive up sales


Bayer Garden has taken to the road to give garden centre staff the information they need to help and advise their customers. The Bayer Garden training roadshow kicked off in Cambridge on Monday before moving to Birmingham on Tuesday and Leeds on Wednesday.
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UK stocks of world’s largest tomato sell out in 36 hours
 

Seed and plant firm Van Meuwen had to play 'ketchup' after unprecedented demand for the world’s largest tomato. Stocks sold out within 36 hours of launch, forcing the company to reopen its production line and fill 10,000 more packets...

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James Wong becomes the 'face' of Fiskars



Leading garden tool manufacturer Fiskars didn't have to think too hard about who should be the face of their award-winning ranges. TV presenter, ethnobotanist and best-selling author James Wong ticked all the right boxes...

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Cold weather boosts sales of polar bears
 
The recent snowfall and winter clearances have seen a rise in the sales of polar bears in the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart...
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Norfolk Leisure full of Christmas spirit...and it's now February!


The team at Norfolk Leisure were surprisingly still full of the Christmas spirit this week as they exhibited at the Spring Fair, NEC, this week...
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Darlac set to launch 'most innovative product to date'
 

With a week to go to the DIY and Totally Tools Show at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, Darlac continues to ‘keep schtum’ about its latest and most innovative product to date which is due to be launched at the show on the Darlac stand (i39) on Sunday 15th February..,

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Stewart Garden assures quality with British manufactured electric propagators
 

Stewart Garden is urging retailers to stock up on quality assured British manufactured electric propagators in readiness for the growing season...

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Mr Fothergill's honoured for sales of poppy seeds


"Greatly honoured and naturally delighted" was how Mr Fothergill's joint-managing director David Carey described his reaction on learning the company had been accorded honorary corporate friendship status by the Royal Hospital Chelsea...
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Gardening celebs get ready for 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz

Horticultural celebrities from TV and radio are busy recording questions for the 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day Quiz at the moment, and garden centres who sign up to take part in what is set to be the biggest and best quiz yet can take advantage of the ‘early bird’ entry fee of just £50 - if they sign up before 1st January 2015...
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Crest Garden supports Greenfingers
 
Crest Garden is supporting the Greenfingers charity with a donation of 25p for every pair of General Purpose Scissors sold in their spring promotion...
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Eden Halls launch greenhouse range with 'no trip' zero threshold


A new range of greenhouses has been launched by Eden Halls Greenhouses under the Eden brand, featuring a whole series of game changing, technically-led, consumer benefits including the revolutionary, patent pending, Eden Zero Threshold Sliding Door System...
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