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High Profile TGCG Regional Manager reveals leaving date
Blaze-hit Blooms Cardiff opens up to sell Christmas trees
The challenges facing Solus as new CEO takes over
GCA confirms Wylie as permanent CEO
GTN Bestsellers predicts 15% volume sales increase at garden centres
Indoor plant and product sales gather pace
Dobbies and Tesco to hold exhibition for first joint Scottish store
Garden centres dish up a cheerful October
Act now to head off law that could devastate plant ranges
Customer Votes for The Greatest Garden Centre Team at Christmas start to arrive
Notcutts buy Greatest Christmas Awards nominated Garden Pride Garden Centre
Benross expands team to meet garden retail demands
Broadcaster Stefan Bucazcki wins Lifetime Achievment Award
Santa arrives at Merryhatton Garden Centre in a microlight
Buy your tickets for GTN's Greatest Christmas Party
Kelkay acquires Borderstone from Aggregate Industries
Santa hats and novelty socks boost Christmas business
Pull together to promote horticulture
Winter Stem is the HTA's Plant of December
Consumer deadline for disposal of Provado Lawn Grub Killer
Top economist shares thoughts on outlook for garden centres
Learn all about branding
More pictures of Garden Centre Christmas displays than have ever been published before
Vote on-line for The Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year.
Gardman's Big January Sale just got bigger
HTA calls on Defra to avoid forestry crisis
Path Weedkiller's seal of approval
Growing media sales still up year on year overall
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Who is The Greatest Supplier for Christmas 2013?
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Customer Votes for The Greatest Garden Centre Team at Christmas start to arrive
Get your customers voting now – entries taken until Christmas Eve


Entries for The Greatest Garden Centre Team at Christmas are starting to arrive at the GTN offices. The first entry to be received – unfortunately there are no prizes for this accolade – was for Langlands Garden Centre in York Road, Leeds.

The Greatest Christmas Awards were conceived by GTN to reward garden centre teams who pull out all the stops to maximise their festive sales and the award for The Greatest Garden Centre at Christmas is awarded to the teams that get the most votes.  It's as simple as that.   The highest accolade a garden centre team can have to be voted number one by your customers!

Voting started on Wednesday 20th November and runs right through to Christmas Eve.

All you need to do is download the posters and voting slips from this link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/69tcbycwte53c0v/Pf9fHcSJhB

Or click on these images to download

    

(If you have any problems downloading files, please contact trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk )

Now in their fifth year, the awards have become increasingly popular and The Greatest Christmas Party at Harrogate on 12 January 2014 – where the results are announced – has earned a reputation as the best gig in town, as well as a celebration of the industry’s leading role in Christmas retailing.

The Greatest Christmas Awards guarantee that the outstanding teamwork that has made the garden centre Christmas the envy of other retail sectors gets the recognition it deserves.

You can enter any, or all, of categories, and you can also invite your customers to vote for you in The Greatest Garden Centre at Christmas Team award.

We’ll also be asking every participating garden centre to nominate their Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year.

Pictured above: One of the Christmas displays at Langlands Leeds, the first garden centre to be nominated for  The Greatest Garden Centre at Christmas Team.


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