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Vicky Nuttall named as new Director of GIMA
Blaze-hit Blooms Cardiff fights back with impressive Christmas tree sales
Winter sales volumes at garden centres set to reach a peak
Garden products benefit from high footfall
Christmas comes early with festive marketing treats from Stars for Europe
Solus completes sales and customer team changes
Sales and confidence boost for garden retail
Bents takes 'Best in the North West' Christmas title
Notcutts at the heart of £85 million shopping village re-development
Garden centre uses Google maps to give shoppers an instore glimpse
Buy your tickets for GTN's Greatest Christmas Party
Who is this man of many mo's…?
Door decorations give festive sales a lift
Notcutts complete Garden Pride takeover
Bark sales hold their own
HTA member support needed for EU proposal amend
Jane Lawler to support the Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf partnership
Police warn of Christmas tree thefts from garden centres
Six new jobs created as Newquay GC opens new café
Stagecraft set for major expansion
Go 'green' at Christmas with Oncor
More pictures of Garden Centre Christmas displays than have ever been published before
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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Vicky Nuttall named as new Director of GIMA
Vicky Nuttall, head of marketing at Forest Garden, has been named as the new Director of the Garden Industry Manufacturers’ Association...



Vicky seen earlier this year receiving the GIMA President's chain of office from Nigel Thompson.
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Blaze-hit Blooms Cardiff fights back with impressive Christmas tree sales
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Winter sales volumes at garden centres set to reach a peak


With three weeks to go, it looks as though the GTN Bestsellers prediction of a new winter sales volume peak is on the cards...
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Garden products benefit from high footfall
 
The GTN Bestsellers Garden Products Top 50 sales volumes are currently on a par with the last week of March. Although the weather then was not ideal, it just illustrates the resilience of gardening and garden products, even though Christmas is at the top of the agenda at the moment.
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Christmas comes early with festive marketing treats from Stars for Europe


Stars for Europe reveal ways to maximise your poinsettia sales this Christmas, including step-by-step instructions for building an irresistibly eye-catching poinsettia display...
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Solus completes sales and customer team changes
 
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With new sales director May Philpott and CEO Mark Pearson now on board at Solus Garden & Leisure, the Worcestershire-based company has announced the final additions to its sales and customer service teams.
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Sales and confidence boost for garden retail


The December edition of HTA Market Update, published this week, reveals that year to date garden centre sales are 5% ahead of 2012 (end of October). Sales have been ahead of 2012 levels since May with September figures 4% up and October 3% up...
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Bents takes 'Best in the North West' Christmas title


Christmas celebrations have come early at Bents Garden & Home as the Glazebury-based centre has been presented with the ‘Best in the North West’ title at this year’s Garden Centre Association Christmas awards...
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Notcutts at the heart of £85 million shopping village re-development


A much larger Notcutts garden centre is part of a £85 million plan to re-develop a shopping centre in Maidstone, Kent, where it currently has a store...
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Garden centre uses Google maps to give shoppers an instore glimpse


Notcutts Garden Centres have teamed up with Google Maps to create a virtual 360 tour of its Christmas shop in Norwich...
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Buy your tickets for GTN's Greatest Christmas Party


Tickets are selling fast for The Greatest Christmas Awards Party on Sunday, January 12, 2014 at the Majestic Hotel in Harrogate...so make sure you don't miss out!
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