In This Issue
Wyevale Garden Centres agrees sale of five more garden centres
Bord Na Móna launches its ‘Growing Media Academy’ at Glee 2018
Block Blitz to launch new larger pack at Glee 2018
Blue Diamond start recruiting 8 chefs for new centres
Market leading timber retail plant staging solutions from M&M Timber
Gloves come off as Aberdeen garden centre and boxer go head-to-head for former school site
Gardman move away from the pallet network and return to dedicated fleet via Robsons of Spalding
No more extremes, please!
Glee confirm new 2019 opening days
Gardenex gives valuable advice to UK companies on developing their Brexit strategy
Wyevale Garden Centres partners up with The Royal British Legion for ‘Thank you’ Campaign
Get ready for Greenfingers Charity’s 20th anniversary at this year’s Glee
Wyevale Nurseries Taster Menu hailed a success
£2.5m Mill-inspired Garden Centre Restaurant Opens
Celebration raises £20,000 for children
Late summer colour sparks plant sales increases
Christmas opens at Summerhill Garden Centre in Essex
Bank Holiday Blues for GTN Xtra
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Honorary Degree for Peter Seabrook
Tom Sharples retires from Suttons
Will Glee shine a light on Garden Product sales growth?
HTA strengthens its grower representation at Board level
Carry on growing your own
Buddleja davidii 'SMNBDBT' (ROCKETSTAR INDIGO) Best novelty Plantarium 2018
Growing Media sales pick up as winter veg gets planted out
New director joins Vitax board
Who is stealing Wild Bird Care sales?
Press Award Plantarium 2018 for Triple Beauty and Ficinia Ice Crystal
The best of last week's
Blue Diamond now 3rd largest Garden Centre Group in the UK
42 more Homebase closures named as former owners lick their wounds
Lancs grower is latest victim or rural crime
Hilliers set out to make a family's dream come true
43% of gardeners use weedkillers, survey suggests
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Wyevale Garden Centres agrees sale of five more garden centres
One more to Blue Diamond and one to Homeleigh

Wyevale Garden Centres, the UK’s biggest garden centre operator, today announces the sale of Brooks; Nailsworth; Aldridge; Keynsham and Shirley garden centres to individual buyers.  Nailsworth has been purchased by Blue Diamond and Brooks by Homeleigh Garden Centre...

 

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Bord Na Móna launches its ‘Growing Media Academy’ at Glee 2018
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Bord na Móna has announced the launch of its ‘Growing Media Academy’, a brand new, educational initiative designed to strengthen retailers’ understanding of the Bord na Móna Growise range of products...

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Block Blitz to launch new larger pack at Glee 2018
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Yorkshire-based start up company, Block Blitz, will be launching new large-size packs of its expanding product range of hassle-free paving treatments at this year’s GLEE show on stand number 20U70...

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Blue Diamond start recruiting 8 chefs for new centres

One week into the integration of 8 previously Wyevale Garden Centres into the Blue Diamond Group, Managing Director Alan Roper has told GTN Xtra that the switch over went well; "For customers the main issue was the swap over of tills and that has gone very well.  We have already started to recruit 8 chefs so that we can start to move the food offering up to Blue Diamond standards, none of the new centres had chefs employed."...

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Market leading timber retail plant staging solutions from M&M Timber
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M&M Timber have a comprehensive range of merchandising units which are the perfect choice for garden centres, DIY businesses, nurseries, department stores and other retail businesses...

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Gloves come off as Aberdeen garden centre and boxer go head-to-head for former school site

A potential new site for Parkhill Garden Centre in Aberdeen has set the garden centre against Aberdeen boxing champion Lee McAllister's plans to create a £10 million health and fitness village...

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Gardman move away from the pallet network and return to dedicated fleet via Robsons of Spalding

Nine months on from the opening of their Daventry warehouse facility which was devastated by fire in March, Gardman have now decided to move back to a dedicated fleet run by Robsons of Spalding for their deliveries to garden centres...

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No more extremes, please!

Ouch!  It feels as though we have fallen off a cliff since the end of June.  July and August so far have brought us seven consecutive weeks of GTN Bestsellers All Sales Indexes that are down on last year...

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Glee confirm new 2019 opening days
 

Glee has a proven track record of evolving and changing to meet the needs of the industry it represents. The latest update is a continuation of this theme, as it is confirmed that the 2019 event will take place on Tuesday 10th – Thursday 12th September...

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Plastic carrier bag tax to double and extend to all garden retailers

The tax on plastic carrier bags is likely to rise to 10p and be extended to all retailers according to stories in National Newspapers and TV News services...

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Gardenex gives valuable advice to UK companies on developing their Brexit strategy

“Brexit Day on 29th March 2019 is only a matter of months away, so the Federation of Garden & Leisure Manufacturers Ltd is working hard on your behalf to gather as much tangible information about the possible implications of the deal’s outcome as possible,” says Amanda Sizer Barrett...

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Wyevale Garden Centres partners up with The Royal British Legion for ‘Thank you’ Campaign
 

Wyevale Garden Centres launched a ‘Thank you’ campaign with donations to be made to The Royal British Legion from sales of plants and garden related poppy products, Afternoon Tea events in September, October and November with donations made to Royal British Legion at centres and 50% off Fish & Chips every Friday from 24th August - 9th November for serving forces and veterans...

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Get ready for Greenfingers Charity’s 20th anniversary at this year’s Glee

With its 20th anniversary on the horizon in 2019, there are lots of exciting plans afoot for Greenfingers Charity, some of which are set to be revealed at this year’s Glee (10-12 September, Birmingham NEC).

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Wyevale Nurseries Taster Menu hailed a success

 

Customers at Wyevale Nurseries have helped them select four new plants from a Taster Menu concept launched last year to go into full scale production...

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£2.5m Mill-inspired Garden Centre Restaurant Opens

Work on a £2.5 million Kent-mill style restaurant at Millbrook Gravesend has been completed...

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Celebration raises £20,000 for children

A 65th birthday, a 30-year business milestone; and an OBE in recognition of his services to business and charity all paved the way for a lavish celebration for John Athwal OBE of Premier Decorations Ltd in June, raising more than £20,000 for his favourite Fence Club charity to help sick and disadvantaged children...

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Late summer colour sparks plant sales increases

Plant sales moved back up last week with over half of the plant groupings in the GTN Bestsellers Plants chart increasing sales.  Plants for late summer and autumn colour were the big movers with Cyclamen moving back to No 1...

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Christmas opens at Summerhill Garden Centre in Essex

Christmas opened this Bank Holiday Weekend at GTN's Greatest Christmas Award Winning Summerhill Garden Centre, near Basildon, Essex...

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Bank Holiday Blues for GTN Xtra

This issue of GTN Xtra was originally compiled and sent on Bank Holiday Monday, 27th August 2018, however there was a fault in the content that stopped the mailing...

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