In This Issue
Revealed: The magic of Christmas and award-winning garden centre teams
Ex-sales director Nigel Thompson helps Stewart Group to deliver on future plans
The Greatest Christmas Awards judges raise nearly £4,000 by donating their time to Make-A-Wish
Sales boost as gardeners get set to grow
GCA and suppliers join battle again...for charity
Fairy Gardening...has it got wings?
Supa range offers garden centres a point of difference
Sinclair nominate Decco as national distributor
CRoP Clinics to help HTA members save money
Stewart Garden Schools campaign in full swing as garden goodies get despatched
Stax investment continues as they launch biggest-ever garden catalogue
Kelkay Twit Twoo to fly off the shelves for Mother’s Day
Free Sweet Pea Tiller Girls seeds for schools
For the Rising Stars, it's the final countdown
The Top 100 most-read stories of 2014
Gardening celebs get ready for 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz
Key Accounts Manager - Thetford, Norfolk
Garden Centre Manager - East Midlands
Assistant Garden Centre Manager - Washington, West Sussex
Assistant General Manager - West Sussex
Plant Area Department Head - Woking
Plant Area Assistant - Essex
Plant Area Department Head - Stanmore
Bedding Supervisor - West Horsley
Plant Area Supervisor - London
Plant Area Assistant – Hersham
Nick Clegg speaks up for grannies who use garden centre websites
Sales of clothing boost revenues at garden centres in December
Trio pots are fun for cacti say Elho
Scotts offer ChapelWood deals for National Nest Box Week
Onion sets and seed potatoes are Veg-2-Gro bestsellers
Town & Country secateurs top in Which? trial
Multi-purpose compost is back in high demand
Draper to go digital on Totally Tools stand
Wildlife World expands range with environmentally friendly bird baths
New launch: the 'greenest' gloves yet?
Meet the Buyer sessions help fuel export success
London's own garden show to return in June
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Revealed: The magic of Christmas and award-winning garden centre teams
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The magic of Christmas sprinkled over the garden centre industry this week as The Greatest Christmas Awards for 2014 were presented on Sunday evening at the Majestic Hotel, Harrogate.

See exclusive pictures from The Greatest Christmas Awards and link to full results
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Ex-sales director Nigel Thompson helps Stewart Group to deliver on future plans
 
The Stewart Group of companies is in good shape and progressing well with all of its plans for 2015, says former sales director Nigel Thompson, who now works for the company on a freelance consultancy basis...
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The Greatest Christmas Awards judges raise nearly £4,000 by donating their time to Make-A-Wish


After visiting 130 garden centres this Christmas season for The Greatest Christmas Awards, the judges decided to do something different to help raise money for Make-A-Wish. Each of them offered a day’s consultancy to a garden centre or supplier in return for a sizeable donation to Make-A-Wish. A total of nearly £4,000 has already been donated...
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Sales boost as gardeners get set to grow
 
There are signs in this week’s GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart that gardeners are starting to plan for the months ahead...
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GCA and suppliers join battle again...for charity


Teams representing the Garden Centre Association and their supplier associate members will once again battle it out for charity on the eve of the GCA conference in Chester...
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Fairy Gardening...has it got wings?
 
A ‘Fairy Gardening’ competition at Brechin Castle Garden Centre attracted a spectacular array of entries and could be the start of a new trend...
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Supa range offers garden centres a point of difference

Award-winning Supa Ltd, which has supplied the pet and aquatic industry for the past 65 years, is now looking to extend its retail base into garden centres. The company's innovative range of products covers water gardening, fishkeeping, poultry, wild bird care and small animal, and Supa believes it would give garden centres a point of difference.
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Sinclair nominate Decco as national distributor
 
William Sinclair Horticulture has signed a national distribution agreement with the leading garden wholesaler, Decco, covering the company's full suite of brands: J. Arthur Bower's, Growing Success, New Horizon and Deadfast...
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CRoP Clinics to help HTA members save money

The HTA will be holding Cost Reduction Programme (CRoP) Clinics at the end of February, where HTA members can meet CRoP partners and learn how to reduce costs to their business. Garden Radio is one of the partners taking part in the clinics...
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Stewart Garden Schools campaign in full swing as garden goodies get despatched

Stewart Garden is preparing to issue its gardening kits, following the launch of the Stewart Garden Schools campaign 2015. Participating schools across the UK will receive the kits, which will equip them to start growing their own fruit and vegetables...



The 2014 winning entry from Bradley Barton.

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Stax investment continues as they launch biggest-ever garden catalogue
 
Following developments in the garden sector earlier in 2014, Stax Trade Centres who have over 30 years of experience and expertise selling garden products, look back on a year which saw them significantly scale up their garden operations, culminating in them now carrying their largest ever range in their biggest ever catalogue...
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Kelkay Twit Twoo to fly off the shelves for Mother’s Day

Kelkay has its Twit Twoo range of indoor owl water fountains in stores ready for Mother’s Day on Sunday 15 March...
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Free Sweet Pea Tiller Girls seeds for schools


Any of Britain's schools which would like the chance to win £250 by growing sweet peas this summer for Mr Fothergill's national competition are being given an added incentive by the Suffolk seedsman with the offer of free seed...
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For the Rising Stars, it's the final countdown
After eight months of hard graft, the five finalists in the Garden Centre Association’s Rising Stars programme, sponsored by Westland, are preparing to face their ultimate challenge...





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The Top 100 most-read stories of 2014

It was another year of momentous change for the garden centre industry - and, predictably, it was the troubles of the former Solus business and the latest re-shaping of the Wyevale Garden Centres group that topped the list of GTN Xtra's best-read stories...

GTN Xtra Content Popularity 2014
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1Solus Garden & Leisure goes into administration - Issue 28 2014 - Breaking News
2Scotts Miracle-Gro purchase Solus brands - Issue 41 2014 - Breaking News
3Solus 'close to a deal' with new investors - updated - Issue 26 2014
4Redundancies, resignations and new appointments...it has been a dramatic week at Wyevale - Issue 53 2014
5Comment on the Solus-Scotts situation from leading garden centre owners and buying groups - Issue 21 2014
6Dismay as The Garden Centre Group stores shut at 5pm - Issue 5 2014
7Scotts & Solus partnership off - Issue 20 2014 - More Breaking News
8Scotts and Solus in negotiations to join forces - Issue 12 2014 - Breaking News
9Solus reviews options following Scotts deal breakdown - Issue 22 2014 - Solus update
10Administrators make 91 redundant at Solus to stem losses - Issue 30 2014
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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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