GTN Xtra - GTN Xtra - Issue 64 2015

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Is this the spot for Guy Hands's next long-week-end?

If you were to spot Guy Hands on the seafront at Sidmouth, it might be more than an outing to the seaside...

Coffee Grounds concept earns Wyevale GCs top award

Wyevale Garden Centres has won a major award for its coffee shop concept, Coffee Grounds, first introduced last year...

Local businesses oppose Wyevale’s plans for Endsleigh

Businesses in Ivybridge, Devon, are opposing plans by Wyevale Garden Centres to more than double the space dedicated to concessions at their Endsleigh centre...

Cadbury Garden Centre creates 41 new jobs with new look

Wyevale Garden Centres unveiled its new-look Cadbury centre in Bristol yesterday (Friday) following a 13 week redevelopment. The changes have led to 41 new jobs being created...

Sales in Autumn running later than last year, according to Bestsellers data

Christmas is coming... but it’s not getting going just yet. EPoS data supplied to GTN Bestsellers indicates the autumn season is running one or two weeks behind last year, and that includes the start of the big Christmas build-up...

Blue Diamond wins an Award for Excellence in Housewares 2015

Blue Diamond has won the Excellence in Housewares award for Non-Specialist Multiple Retailer...

Kelkay celebrating after ‘best ever’ Glee

Kelkay says Glee 2015 was its most successful show ever. The aggregates market-leader generated huge interest as it presented 91 new products to garden centre buyers and gift retailers at the show...

British Garden Centres bring back Christmas excellence to Chapel Garden Centre

British Garden Centres are already decking their newset and ninth centre ready for Christmas...

All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering

Baking all the way to the tills

Are you making the most of the huge audience and interest levels of The Great British Bake Off?

Award-winning lunch! show welcomes over 6,000 visitors

Buyers from across the UK demonstrated their appetite for lunch! last month, with the multi-award winning trade event enjoying another successful edition...

Record number of exhibitors make it biggest-ever AQUA

AQUA 2015, the UK’s premier water gardening and aquatics trade event, will stage its biggest ever trade show next week with a record number of 82 companies showcasing their products and services...

New pond and aquarium contractor scheme to launch

The Ornamental Aquatic Trade Association is launching a new membership scheme aimed at pond and aquarium contractors...

Bents, The Old Railway Line and Haskins Roundstone are The Greatest Garden Centre Teams

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Bents, The Old Railway Line and Haskins Roundstone were crowned The Greatest Garden Centre Teams of 2015 at the end of GTN's The Greatest Awards ON TOUR 2015, presented after dinner during HTA Futures last week...

Treats – not lump sums – are what motivate retail staff to work harder says report

Bonuses often involve sizeable investment by UK employers, but new research has found that the majority of retail workers are not motivated by lump sums...

GTN October 2015

Garden Trade News

Ken Crafer brings out new book on Garden Centre Management

Consultant and GTN Greatest Awards judge Ken Crafer is sharing his wide knowledge and experience in a new book called Garden Centre Management...

Stax to headline at GIMA Day Conference

Next month’s GIMA Day Conference delegates will hear from Stax Trade Centres Managing Director, David Hibbert...

Leadership, Innovation and Growth is the theme of CIH conference

David Domoney will be chairing the Chartered Institute of Horticulture conference at SALTEX 2015 on 4 November at the NEC, Birmingham. The theme of the conference is theme of Leadership, Innovation and Growth...

Two orchid products dominate the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart for a second week running. The ever popular Fito Drip Feeder for Orchids takes over the No 1 spot while Growth Technology Orchid Myst slips down a place to No 2...

Six garlic varieties in the top 12 bestselling veg products

It’s 12 out of 12 for Taylors this week in the GTN Bestsellers Veg-2-Gro chart with all of the Top 12 bestsellers being Taylors onion sets, shallot or garlic lines. There are six garlic varieties included in that figure. Sales continue to be up year on year too, so it looks set to be a good winter for homegrown onions and garlic...

Farmyard manure and top soil sales encouraging

Farmyard manure and top soil have been in good demand, according to the Bestsellers Growing Media chart. Westland Top Soil (Value Bag) has seen a 50% increase in sales compared to the previous week while Vital Earth Farm Manure has risen 18 places to No 3...

Postgraduate wins second national landscape award

Writtle College postgraduate Jacqui Jobbins, from Bradwell on Sea, has won a second major national award for her landscape architecture dissertation...

Help give birds a beautiful home with new RSPB garden hedge packs

Best4hedging have launched special, bird-friendly hedging packs that have been approved by the RSPB...

Save the Date: HTA Marketing Forum 2015 – Tuesday 10 November

Taking place at Chesford Grange, Warwickshire on Tuesday 10 November, the HTA is excited to announce its first HTA Marketing Forum...

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