In This Issue
Nominate your teams for GTN’s The Greatest Christmas Awards
Are stores from other groups on Wyevale Garden Centres' radar?
Love the Plot campaign teams up with Radio 2 for Children in Need
Get your skates on for ice cool experience at Webbs
Conference to get ‘fresh perspectives on leadership’
Vote for your Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year
Vroom vroom....Santa settles for a £1m sports car for Squire's arrival
Less than two weeks to go until HTA Marketing Forum
Squires fund-raising will help 14 local charities
Book your tickets for GTN’s Greatest Christmas Party
Plant Buyer - Plant Area Manager - Destination Centre - SW England
Wholesale Nursery - Sales Assistant - Hampshire
Buyer - Major Multiple - Plants - SE England
Plant Propagation Seeding Supervisor - Manager - North Yorkshire
Last chance to sign up for Lawn Academy
Advent calendar in demand as Xmas buying accelerates
Party for Perennial promises night out to remember
Stewart appoints new marketing director
Pots and pot feet continue to be bestsellers
Bark is the star performer in Growing Media sales
Rachel de Thame is Plantlife's new Vice President
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Director who transformed Wyevale catering to leaves
Situations Vacant
Plant Buyer - Plant Area Manager - Destination Centre - SW England
Salary: £30,000-£35,000
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Wholesale Nursery - Sales Assistant - Hampshire
Salary: £23000 to £25,000
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Buyer - Major Multiple - Plants - SE England
Salary: £40,000
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Plant Propagation Seeding Supervisor - Manager - North Yorkshire
Salary: £18,000 - £25,000
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Book your tickets for GTN's Greatest Christmas Party on Sunday January 10th 2016 here


Nominate your teams for GTN’s The Greatest Christmas Awards


Christmas is upon us once again, and the signs are it’s going to be a great one for garden centres. So now is the time for you to nominate your teams to be a part of GTN’s The Greatest Christmas Awards.

All you have to do is nominate your team using the form in the November issue of GTN (or send an email to thegreatestawards@tgcmc.co.uk) to arrive no later than Monday 9th November and we will then organise for one of GTN’s The Greatest Awards team of experts to come and visit you to find out just what makes your teams so great at Christmas.

After all the judges visits, our experts meet to decide on the winners and the results will be announced at The Greatest Awards Christmas Party on January 10th 2016 in the Majestic Hotel, Harrogate, during the evening after the first day of the Harrogate Christmas & Gift Show.

The award for The Greatest Garden Centre Team at Christmas is a category decided purely by customer voting. Using the voting postcard pdfs we supply you can invite your customers to vote for you as The Greatest Garden Centre Team at Christmas. You can also invite them to vote online using a special Greatest Awards voting link.

Voting will run from November 23rd through to Christmas Eve.  When all the votes are counted, the size of each garden centre team is then taken into account so that small centre teams have as much chance of winning this accolade as large centres.

To register your team for customer voting in GTN’s The Greatest Christmas Awards please send an email to thegreatestawards@tgcmc.co.uk

GTN’s The Greatest Christmas Awards Categories for 2015
  • The Greatest Christmas Display Team - awards for individual centres and centres that are part of groups, plus special awards for display teams that are being really innovative.
  • The Greatest Grotto Team - regional and national award for teams delivering The Greatest Santa experience for their customers young and old.
  • The Greatest Christmas Sizzle Team - for exceptional BBQ sales as gifts and for cooking the turkey in the run up to Christmas.
  • The Greatest Festive Plant Sales Team - for planteria teams that really enter into the festive spirit to maximise the sales of plants and trees while centre footfall is at it’s highest.
  • The Greatest Festive Catering Team - which catering team is The Greatest at converting footfall into dining and drinking.
  • The Greatest Garden Centre Team at Christmas (customer voting) - decided purely by customer voting.  If you have a loyal and satisfied customer base let them make you The Greatest, they will love taking part.


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