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Fund created for Westland accident victims family
Ayrshire garden centre owner, Michael Hayes of Hayes Garden Land in Symington has set up a JustGiving page to raise money for the family of Philip Moore who died after a tragic accident at Westlands Dungannon factory last week...
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Good plant sales prospects for the summer
Weekly plant sales volumes continue to run ahead of 2019 levels, and for the past three weeks have been ahead of weekly levels in 2018. That is a good indicator that provided there is availability of plants looking good customers will continue to buy them through the summer...
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Neil Cochrane joins Fallen Fruits
Neil Cochrane has joined the Fallen Fruits team as the new sales agent for Scotland...
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Veg 2 Gro up by 42% since re-opening
Since re-opening, Veg 2 Gro sales, as monitored by the GTN Bestsellers Epos analysis, are 42% up year on year...
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Gardenex and PetQuip organise second e-commerce webinar
The second in a series of e-commerce webinars organised by Gardenex and PetQuip in conjunction with the Department for International Trade plus Salesupply and Infinity Blue is being held on Wednesday 1 July from 10.00am to 11.00am...
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
Man dies at Westland factory in Dungannon
A tragic accident has happened at Westland's Dungannon factory resulting in a mans death...
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Marlows , Bury St Edmunds, to close due to Coronavirus trading conditions
After re-opening on May 20th with a 40 minute appointment only shopping system, Marlows Home and Garden in Bury St Edmunds announced on June 9th that it will be closing down...
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Year on year sales deficit halved in four weeks
The wetter and cooler weather at the start of June took some of the heat out of overall garden centre sales, not quite setting a new record for the first week of June. Garden Product volume sales were up by 43% on the same week last year and that means on a year to date basis the garden product deficit has halved from 52% just before re-opening to 26% after the first week of June...
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Fire at Cooks Garden Centre
Award winning Cooks Garden Centre in Stourbridge is open as normal following a fire at their Bewdley Road Nursery on June 5th.
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Socially Distanced plant sales up by 40%
Plant sales were up by 40% compared to the same week last year for the start of June. That’s great news considering the weather wasn’t so good and that stocks of bedding plants were running out. Instead gardeners appear to have bought other plants, especially veg plants and plants to grow in pots and containers including herbs...
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Garden Centre Photo Tours
If you've missed one of our popular photo tours of garden centres then click on the links below:
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
Haskins Garden Centre in Snowhill, Crawley, has opened its doors to customers following a 12-month refurbishment costing £15m...
Read more and see GTN Xtras photo tour of the new centre
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