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Slow start to trading in 2017 as footfall is down
LOFA prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a new Chairman and Vice Chairman at the helm
Light up your January sales with impulse displays
Onion sets and seed potatoes selling through
Magic start to the year for growing media sales
Primulas are the bestselling plant of the year so far
Wyevale Garden Centres launches new e-commerce site
Notcutts celebrates 120 years of glorious gardening
£2m investment in ad campaign for Westland SafeLawn
Wyevale Nurseries raises £1,042 for Greenfingers Charity
Green festival during Plantarium 2017
Exhibitor stands at PATS Sandown 'sold out'
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Slow start to trading in 2017 as footfall is down


The first two weeks of 2017 have started slowly according to EPoS data supplied for GTN Bestsellers. High volumes of Christmas sale lines, kitchenware and homewares feature in the data overall but indications are that footfall is down compared to the previous three years...
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LOFA prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a new Chairman and Vice Chairman at the helm


Outback chief executive Mark Osborne has been appointed Chariman of LOFA, following the decision by Paul Bevington to step down for personal reasons. Pravin Patel, a director of Premier decorations has been made Vice-Chairman of the association...
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Light up your January sales with impulse displays
 
While centres start to get their garden products departments ready for the season customers are still buying garden lighting and houseplant feeders in relatively high volumes...
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Onion sets and seed potatoes selling through

Onion sets and seed potatoes have started selling through this week as displays are finished and stocks located in high footfall areas. Stuttgarter is once again the most popular onion for early starters with Pentland Javelin being the most picked up seed potato. Beetroot Boltardy is as usual the most popular seed for the start of the year...
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Magic start to the year for growing media sales
 
Jack’s Magic is the early bird compost of choice for keen gardeners wanting to get a head start in 2017, according to GTN Bestsellers, which also sees Westland Gro-Sure Perlite Pouch 10 litres enter the Growing Media Top 50 for the first time...
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Primulas are the bestselling plant of the year so far

Plant sales volumes at the start of the year have dropped to just less than 50% of the week before Christmas but the most popular plants that are looking good are still selling in high volumes, especially Primulas...
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Wyevale Garden Centres launches new e-commerce site


Wyevale Garden Centres has launched its new e-commerce website to all customers, following a trial period for Garden Club members. This launch is central to the businesses ambition to become fully multi-channel...
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Notcutts celebrates 120 years of glorious gardening
Notcutts, the family-owned garden centre business, will be marking its 120th anniversary this year after opening as a nursery in 1897...



Caroline Notcutt with the large gold medal won at Sandringham Flower Show.
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£2m investment in ad campaign for Westland SafeLawn
 
Westland will invest over £2m in a TV and digital advertising campaign in 2017 to promote Westland SafeLawn, a new product encouraging more consumers to feed their lawn...
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Wyevale Nurseries raises £1,042 for Greenfingers Charity


Wyevale Nurseries has raised £1,042 for Greenfingers by backing its ‘Turn Old into Gold’ fundraiser, which sees discontinued or unwanted stock auctioned off in aid of the charity...
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Green festival during Plantarium 2017
Young people accept the challenge and take on the organisation


During the trade fair Plantarium, which will be held from 23 to 26 August 2017, a green festival for and by young people will be organised for the first time. The festival is one of the items that aims to make the fair more trendy in order to let Plantarium have a higher profile as a source of inspiration in the field of green applications...
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Exhibitor stands at PATS Sandown 'sold out'


Visitors to PATS Sandown in March can expect a busy and exciting show as all exhibitor stands at the two-day event have now been sold...
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