GTN Xtra - GTN Xtra - Issue 26 2015

British Prime Minister David Cameron visited Melbicks, a Wyevale Garden Centre, in Birmingham today, talking policies and plantpots with customers and staff...

GIMA appoints five new members to its council

Five new members were appointed to the GIMA Council at its AGM attended by 80 people this week...

Easter Monday sales boil over to make it a cracking week

Wow, what a week! After all the concern and worry prompted by the lengthy colder spell of weather – including a really poor Good Friday and Easter Saturday – Easter Monday heralded a bumper week for garden centres providing GTN Bestsellers with EPoS data...

Everything in the Garden Products chart is rosy

Everything gardening is looking rosy after the Easter Bank Holiday. All but one of the GTN Garden Products Bestsellers saw week on week sales increases with really high risess across weed controls, pots, tools, lawn care and hanging basket products...

Hozelock confirms return to Glee 2015

It has been confirmed that Hozelock, one of the most recognisable garden care and watering brands in the UK today, is set to make its return to Glee in 2015, following a break of several years...

Wyevale Garden Centres shortlisted for National Recycling Awards ‘Best Partnership Project’

Wyevale Garden Centres has been shortlisted, along with its partners Biffa and Good Values, as a finalist for this year’s MRW National Recycling Award, in the category of ‘Best Partnership Project’...

Dutch say Thank-you with flowers in Kew liberation display

A special spring flower mosaic made of Dutch bulb flowers was unveiled at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew this week, commemorating 70 years since the liberation of the Netherlands...

Further investment for Deco-Pak helps forecast growth throughout 2015

Deco-Pak has announced it is making the necessary investments to ensure that 2015 is its strongest year yet...

Natural & Organic Products Europe 2015 opens this weekend
Buyers prepare for Europe’s biggest trade event for natural and organic health, beauty and food products

Natural & Organic Products Europe – Europe’s biggest trade show for natural, organic, fair trade, free-from, vegan, vegetarian, and healthy living brands – opens at 9.30am on Sunday 19 April at the new venue of ExCeL London...

Town & Country reaches £1,500 for Greenfingers

We reported in a recent GTNXtra that the number of pairs of Town & Country gardening gloves sold on Garden Re-Leaf Day had reached 3,400. The figure now stands at just over 6,000 pairs of gloves sold and, with 25 pence from each sale pledged to Greenfingers, that equates to a fabulous £1,500 raised for the charity so far...

Bayer Garden advisers live on Facebook

Bayer Garden’s Consumer Advisor, Anita Dent, is going to be live on Facebook throughout the season answering consumers’ questions. Each ‘Facebook Clinic’ will focus on a different topic, kicking off in April with weeds...

Record 22% increase for Burncoose Nurseries mail order

Burncoose Nurseries mail order department despatched a record number of customer plant orders in the year to the end of March...

GTN April 2015

Garden Trade News

Blue Diamond's Richard Hemans is appointed Chartered Director

Richard Hemans, Group Finance Director of Blue Diamond Garden Centre Group, has successfully gained admission as a Chartered Director, the Institute of Director’s prestigious and practical qualification for company directors and board members...

Seismic shift in young veg plant sales

Veg-2-Gro sales, particularly tomatoes and cucumber plants, have moved out of garden centres with a seismic shift following on from the great Easter Monday...

Trans-Continental Group appoint Buying Director

Trans-Continental Group has announced that Sara Murray has been appointed to the position of Buying Director...

Back in the black for growing media

Growing media sales had a great week after the sun finally shone enough to encourage gardeners to venture out into their gardens and into garden centres...

Charlie Dimmock set to visit Newbridge Nurseries

Much-loved gardening expert Charlie Dimmock will be visiting Newbridge Nurseries on Saturday, 25th April...

Ben to pedal from Paris to Yeovil for charity

Management trainee Ben Gregory, who works at Wyevale Nurseries in Hereford will this month be cycling from Paris to Yeovil in aid of charity...

Weather affects plant sales while non-traditional categories soar

Garden centres across the country saw sales of clothing and catering soar while fluctuating weather saw plant sales rise and fall during March, according to the Garden Centre Association’s Barometer of Trade results...

Artificial lawn would 'save four days of garden graft a year'

Home owners could save four days a year by ‘turfing out' their natural grass in favour of an articial lawn, according to research from the UK’s biggest supplier of artificial grass...

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