GTN Xtra - GTN Xtra - Issue 57 2016

Catering Awards - June 7th @ HTA Catering Conference
Plant Retailing Awards - June 22nd @ National Plant Show
Outdoor Living Awards - Sept 5th @ spoga+gafa
Garden Centre Awards - Oct 12th @ HTA Garden Futures
Marketing Awards - Nov 8th @ HTA Marketing Forum

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Christmas is bursting out all over and Grottos are fully booked already

Christmas displays are opening up and down the country and Christmas Grotto booking are already sold out - and October is still a week away!

Tete a Tete tops Bestsellers Top 20 chart

Tete a Tete bulbs, multipurpose compost with John Innes and decorative Poppy Wild Bird Feeders dominate at the top of the first GTN Bestsellers All Garden Products Top 20 chart...

See GTN's New Top 20 Chart and pictures of Burfords bulb displays

Kates Sky Dive for Greenfingers

Kate Ebbens, MD of Cadix UK was one of the intrepid team who Sky Dived yesterday to raise funds for Greenfingers...

HTA Garden Futures Conference and Dinner: ‘Business Agility in a Disruptive World’

PY Gerbeau, Ibrahim Ibrahim and Leonard Diepenbrock are just three of the speakers announced for the HTA Garden Futures conference and dinner which takes place on Wednesday 12 October at Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire...

SkALE Greenwall wins Best Product at Glee

The team from Lows of Dundee were overjoyed when the innovative SkALE Greenwall was voted Best Overall Product at Glee...

CPL Distribution launch Next Generation Biomass Fuels range

CPL’s Homefire Olive Briquettes created plenty of interest at this year’s Glee. The completely new and innovative product, which is the result of extensive research by CPL, also won the Going Green Award at the Glee New Product Awards...

New Plant Invigorator and Bio Stimulant from Neudorff

Exciting new additions to Neudorff’s weed, feed and control range were launched at GLEE 2016, receiving positive feedback from the industry...

Wildlife World launches stylish new range

This Autumn, Wildlife World is unveiling an extensive range of new products, including its new novelty Dewdrop range for birds, bees and other beneficial garden insects. Wildlife World exclusively launched the range at Glee 2016 where the unique SIMON KING brushwood robin nester (below) retailing at only £6.99 won best new pet and wildlife product at Glee...

Rebooking for Glee 2017 breaks records

Following the successful 2016 show, it has been confirmed that the 2017 show has already broken Glee’s own rebooking records...

Bathgate Horticulture Wins Award for Best Retail Product or Service at Four Oaks

The Bathgate Horticulture team has picked up the award for Best Retail Product or Service at the recent Four Oaks exhibition in Cheshire for their new product, Champions Blend...

HTA Marketing Forum - Maximising Your Potential

The HTA Marketing Forum, with a theme of ‘Maximising Your Potential’, takes place on 8 November 2016 at Whittlebury Hall, Northamptonshire...

VivaGreen is crowned the 2016 GIMA Innovators’ Seed Corn Fund winners!

The winner of this year’s GIMA Innovators' Seed Corn Fund is Dublin based, VivaGreen. Impressing the judges with its MossOff product which is a multi-surface concentrate that offers a new and totally unique biocide-free way of controlling moss and algae on all outdoor surfaces, VivaGreen beat off stiff competition to secure this year’s win...

Elementi - The Art of Fire

The Gas Fire Pit market got red hot on the Elementi stand at Glee...

New Aquabrush will be a hit with gardeners and active lifestylers

The new Aquabrush from JK's Creations is destined to be a big hit for gardeners and people with a more active lifestyle...

Little Babas Toys showcased their new range of licensed CBeebies Mr Bloom Talking Veggies at Glee 2016

Mr Bloom's Nursery is one of the BBC's top-rating kids' TV shows. Little Babas Toys showcased their new range of licensed CBeebies Mr Bloom Talking Veggies at Glee 2016...

New Spear & Jackson Razorsharp Convertible Ratchet Anvil Secateurs

Spear & Jackson launched their new Convertible Ratchet Anvil Secateurs at GLEE this year, as part of their Razorsharp range...

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Orchid products provide sales uplift

Sales of orchid growing products provided a welcome uplift this week, even outselling garden lighting lines by 95%...

Onion sales are electric

Onion and garlic sales for autumn planting doubled week on week with onion sets Radar and Electric taking over at the Top of the GTN Bestsellers Veg-2-Gro chart...

Growing media sales rise by 4%

The nation’s gardeners are back on track with growing activity. Sales of growing media moved up 4% even despite the second week of unusually hot September weather.

Top 50 plant sales grow by 28%

Mid-September plant sales show a healthy increase. Overall plant sales volumes increased by 13%, while volumes of the Top 50 genus groupings increased by 28%...

Glee New Product Awards - Full list of winners

Ten ground-breaking new garden products were confirmed as the winners of the coveted Glee New Product Awards at Glee 2016, including Wildlife World (pictured) who won the Wildlife and Pets category...

Find out the New Product Award winners

A Conifer for every garden: National Conifer Week 2016

National Conifer Week takes place from 24 September – 2 October 2016...

Retailers Choice is inspired by the Japanese art of origami and an opening seed

The Retailers Choice Award at Glee 2016, sponsored by the HTA, was won by Adam Christopher Design, 20E35, for their Kronen 65 planter...

New National Sales Manager joins Fallen Fruits

Fallen Fruits’ newly appointed National Sales Manager, Edward Cantle has been getting to grips with his new role with the garden giftware company at this month’s Glee...

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