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Garden Care gets Gold treatment at Aylett's
The winners of GTN's Greatest Garden Care Retail Team for 2015 are the team from Aylett Nurseries beating off stiff competition from Barton Grange, Silver Award winners, and the garden cenre teams at Alton's and Chessington Garden centres who claimed Bronze Awards...
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Customer satisfaction is everything at Scotsdales
GTN's The Greatest Garden Centre Customer Service Team Gold Award winner was the team from Scotsdales, ahead of Fron Goch and Coolings who collected Silver Awards and the teams from Perrywood and Whitehall Lacock who were announced as Bronze Award winners...
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Colin Squire awarded prestigious Pearson Memorial Medla
Colin Squire, chairman of Squires Garden Centres, was presented with the Pearson Memorial Medal at the HTA Garden Futures dinner at Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire...
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Find out what the best are doing...and copy it!
Find out what the best are doing…and copy it! That was the advice offered to HTA Garden Future Conference delegates by leading retail consultant Dennis Reid...
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Rising Stars wins Gold for Westland and the GCA
The Greatest Training Initiative Award, sponsored by MorePeople, was presented to Rising Stars run by the GCA and Westland...
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Economic benefits driving the growth of the green consumer, claims analyst
Economic benefits rather than ecological ones appear to be driving the consumer’s growing commitment to sustainability, according to Dominic Harrison, global trends director at the Futures Foundation...
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Homebase to train 80 through Garden Academy next year
Homebase is to double the number of employees training through its Garden Academy to 80 next year, trading director Jon Kemp (left) told HTA delegates...
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E-commerce: softly-softly approach by garden centres?
A panel of key garden industry players was quizzed on the role of the internet and social media, price deflation and the garden centres of the future at this week’s HTA Garden Futures Conference. Some answers suggested garden centres were taking a softly-softly approach to e-commerce...
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September has been a disappointing month for garden centre sales
September has been a slumbering month for garden centre sales this year. Sales volumes reported to GTN Bestsellers from garden centre EPoS data shows sales for the month to be down 5% on last year and only marginally up on September 2013...
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The Gardens Group joins forces with ABF The Soldiers’ Charity to welcome Alan Titchmarsh to Dorset
Alan Titchmarsh will be presenting an evening of gardening prose, poetry and anecdotes at The Crown Hotel in Blandford on Thursday 19 November at 7pm. Sponsored by The Gardens Group, this special event will raise money for the Army Benevolent Fund (ABF) The Soldiers’ Charity, which was set up in 1944 to support serving soldiers, veterans and their families...
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Strong plant sales as Bents goes back to its roots
It hasn’t been the best of summers, but despite the weather Bents Garden & Home has bucked the industry trend for sales of outdoor plants. The Warrington based Centre can report figures which are not only ahead of the competition but are also almost 12% up on last year’s sales to date...
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STV aims for 10 million
“The only way is up!” says STV managing director Edwin Allingham. STV is on track to sell over 10 million units of pest control products a year...
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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A ninth centre for British Garden Centres
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Early October queues for Christmas at Whitehall
Plus early pictures of Christmas at Barton Grange
The "madness" of Christmas got underway at Whitehall Lacock last week with over 1,000 people queuing to gain entry to their Christmas preview evening...
Christmas display pictures from Whitehall and Barton Grange
'Goldilocks Scenario' will boost garden industry...for now
The garden industry will benefit from the current ‘Goldilocks scenario’ of low inflation, rising wages, high spending power and more older people gardening, BBC Radio’s business and economics presenter Simon Jacks told HTA conference delegates...
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James Whiteley wins Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
James Whiteley, the 30-year-old founder of garden furniture retailer White Stores, has won the Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 award at the Essex Business Excellence Awards...
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Floaris Boskoop Presentation days: Autumn and more…
October 13rd till 15th, 2015. Opening hours: 7.30 am till 5 pm. Cash & Carry Floralis Boskoop, Denemarkenlaan 9 at Hazerswoude (The Netherlands)...
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HTA plan for Chelsea presence
The HTA has applied for four show garden spaces at next year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show....
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Bulbs sales get Garden Radio sales help from Johnny Walkers... and the bake off
Garden Centres playing Garden Radio and selling Taylors Bulbs have the added sales help of a series of "advertorial" recordings made especially for by Johnny Walkers and the Garden Radio team for playing throughout October 2015...
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Orchid product sales beat all growth records
End of September orchid fever has hit new heights this year. An amazing 20 items in the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products Top 50 chart are orchid related, an increase of over 120% on last year, with more specialist fertiliser lines and more related pots being sold than we have ever seen in one week...
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A touch of frost? Yes, please!
This Indian Summer weather is not helping growing media sales volumes at the moment. What we really need is a touch of frost to kick start Autumn planting activity.
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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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10 out of 10 for Taylors Bulbs
It’s 10 out of 10 for Taylors this week in the GTN Bestsellers Veg-2-Gro chart with all of the Top 10 bestsellers being Taylors onion sets, shallot or garlic lines. Sales are up year on year too, so it looks set to be a good winter for homegrown onions and garlic...
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New General Manager role for Highfield Garden World
Highfield Garden World has created and filled a new General Manager role to help the business cope with recent rapid expansion...
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Whose tree will be fit for a Downing Street Christmas?
We may have been basking in some welcome Autumnal sunshine last week, but that hasn’t stopped Christmas tree farmers from around the country gearing up for their most important annual event...
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Greenfingers Glovies prove lucky for the Irish
Maybe it's the green in the Glovies that are proving to be a good luck charm for the Irish in the Rugby World Cup...
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Crest established as leading player
Crest Garden made a huge impact at Glee with their impressive ranges of Kent & Stowe garden tools, Flopro watering and Plantpak by Crest propagation...
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Technical difficulties delay bumper issue
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