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New A-team sets sights on 'fresh approach' to garden centres
Fiskars' new UK showroom and offices officially opened
Waitrose gardening pods a highlight in end-of-year results
GTN Bestsellers predicts a year of record lighting sales
Bonnington and law experts plan free industry seminar on brand protection
HTA Catering Conference set for June at The Belfry
Family garden centre unveils two new violets
There's still time to run your Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz
Garden centre staff lap up Love the Plot learning!
Leading pet firm to hand out one million poop bags at PATS
£3.8m worth of Aston Martins in Squires car park...
Hands up...Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day is closer than you think...
Horticultural Buyer - Suffolk
Nursery Operations Manager - Northumberland
Deputy Manager - Warwickshire
Home & Leisure Manager - Leicestershire
Are your Glovies working for you?
Lighting volumes flash brightly
Homebase ramps up online plants offer
Beetroot bolts into the Veg-2-Gro seed sales lead
HTA seeks training partners
Manure and top soil are good value for sales increases
STV launches Live Pest-Free TV
Out of town shopping boosts February footfall
Grange appoint new MD
New diseases make RHS Top 10 in warm and wet 2014
Napoleon’s Grill Skills Theatre takes to the road
Wyevale Nurseries help Beavers meet badge challenge
Blagdon launch high-tech mains-free fountains
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New A-team sets sights on 'fresh approach' to garden centres

A group of leading garden retail executives has launched Rosebourne Limited to develop what they describe as “a fresh approach to garden centres”...

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Fiskars' new UK showroom and offices officially opened


The Ambassador of Finland, Pekka Huhtaniemi, officially opened Fiskars' superb new UK showroom and offices in Birmingham on Thursday...
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Waitrose gardening pods a highlight in end-of-year results
The Waitrose gardening pods that are now a feature at 167 of the supermarket’s branches have been singled out as a highlight in the parent group’s end-of-year results...

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GTN Bestsellers predicts a year of record lighting sales


GTN Bestsellers predicts that 2015 will be a year of record garden lighting sales as Gardman and Smart Solar continue to innovate and promote, and some interesting newcomers take a share of the rapidly expanding marketplace...
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Bonnington and law experts plan free industry seminar on brand protection


Bonnington Plastics, owner of the Kingfisher gardening and homeware brand, has joined forces with intellectual property experts at law firm Pannone Corporate to host a free seminar on IP and brand protection. It’s open to all interested suppliers.

Pictured: new Christmas products from the Kingfisher brand.
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HTA Catering Conference set for June at The Belfry
The HTA have announced a date for this year’s Catering Conference, which will be a two-day event...

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Family garden centre unveils two new violets
Two new violets bred by internationally renowned violet breeder Clive Groves are on display at the family garden centre in Dorset. Clive has named them after his grand-daughters (pictured),,,

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There's still time to run your Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz

Horticultural celebrities from TV and radio have been busy recording questions, wearing Glovies of course, for the 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day Quiz...
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Garden centre staff lap up Love the Plot learning!
An inspiring crop of displays aimed at helping non-gardening 30-45 year olds make more use of their outdoor space emerged from this week's Love the Plot You've Got workshops in Perthshire...

See pictures from the training session and some great planteria POS at Glendoick
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Leading pet firm to hand out one million poop bags at PATS


One of the UK's leading pet product companies is giving away one million poop bags free in a nationwide campaign to encourage British dog owners to be more responsible...
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£3.8m worth of Aston Martins in Squires car park...


Visitors to Squire’s Garden Centre in Hersham on a recent Saturday were greeted by the sight of 37 parked Aston Martins...
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Hands up...Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day is closer than you think...
'Glovies' have been helping staff and customers at Bosworths Garden Centre in Northants and Baytree Garden Centre in Spalding get in the mood for Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day on Friday 27 March, along with hundreds of other garden centres across the UK...

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