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The search is on for The Greatest Christmas teams
What do we know about The Garden Centre Group's new CEO?
Report names 26 top centres ripe for takeover
Half-term holidays give a boost for garden product sales too
Eddie and Kathy will be an Edible Gardening draw
20,000 advance tickets sold for Ruxley Grotto
Christmas product sales performing better than last year!
It’s a real mixed bag from growing media
Biochar scores in professional trials
Solus POS aims to boost GYO interest
Music, maestros, please say TGCG centres
Andy Bestwick plays with the pro's in Florida PGA Tour event
Centres ramp up the festivities
Grow your Christmas pet care sales
UK launch for 'pay by smartphone' device
Westland bird facility earns another A rating
GTN Bestsellers Chart Update
Bestsellers Top 50 Charts Every Week
 

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The search is on for The Greatest Christmas teams

Bents were a 2012 Greatest Christmas Awards winner

This week Garden Trade News launches its search for the UK's top garden centre Christmas teams. The Greatest Christmas Awards - now in their fourth year – reward the outstanding teamwork that has made garden centres the envy of other retail sectors during the festive period...
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What do we know about The Garden Centre Group's new CEO?
 
What links Charlize Theron and the new CEO of The Garden Centre Group? Read on... [Photo: by courtesy of people.com
What links Charlize Theron and the new CEO of The Garden Centre Group? Read on... [Photo: by courtesy of people.com
What do we know about Kevin Bradshaw, The Garden Centre Group’s new CEO, who takes up his post on Monday week? He’s high profile, a seriously big gun – and a fan of Charlize Theron...
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Report names 26 top centres ripe for takeover
Business analysts Plimsoll claim to have identified 26 thriving high-value garden centres ripe for acquisition...
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Half-term holidays give a boost for garden product sales too
 
Preparations for the festive season provided a welcome boost for garden product sales during half-term week, as well as the expected growth in Christmas specific sales..
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Eddie and Kathy will be an Edible Gardening draw

‘Eddie Grundy’ and ‘Kathy Perks’ from BBC Radio 4’s longest-running soap series, Gthe Archers, are to join the celebrity line-up at The  Edible Gardening Show at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire, on Friday March 15.
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20,000 advance tickets sold for Ruxley Grotto
 

After Santa's grand grotto opening at Baytree last week, he is arriving at many more centres this weekend with Ruxley Manor reporting advance sales of 20,000 tickets for their grotto...
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Christmas product sales performing better than last year!

The half-term holidays have certainly been kind to those garden centres with their Christmas displays already built. The GTN Bestsellers chart reveals that Christmas product sales were an encouraging 9% up on the same week last year, and for the first time this year the Top 50 volumes are ahead of 2011 levels...
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It’s a real mixed bag from growing media
 
A mixed bag of sales performances saw 22 out of the Top 50 GTN Bestsellers Growing Media lines increase sales week on week whilst the overall volume sold dropped by 12%...
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Biochar scores in professional trials
Biochar – a form of charcoal used as a soil improver – has produced impressive results in the the UK’s first commercial biochar trials with professional growers and gardeners...
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Solus POS aims to boost GYO interest
 

Solus say their new  ‘Let’s Grow’ merchandising display and POS additions for the Botanico 2013 range offers benefits for retailers and consumers...
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Music, maestros, please say TGCG centres

The Garden Centre Group are aiming to stage live music and entertainment to boost the festive atmosphere at many of their 129 garden centres during next week-end’s group-wide Christmas Fayres (17-18 November)...
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