The death of Charles Notcutt this week – peacefully at home at the age of 81 – has deprived the garden industry of one of its most influential and colourful characters...
Right: Charles Notcutt in 2003 after announcing Notcutts' acquisition of Ansells Garden Centre in Cambridgeshire, which is now owned by Scotsdales.
June 2015, with flaming temperatures at the end of the month, has scorched the GTN Bestsellers record books with all time high sales volumes in all but one of the categories...
Wyevale Garden Centres have posted increased sales, operating profit and gross margins for 2014 – and are predicting further growth through acquisition, concessions and full implementation of multi-channel retailing...
Growing media supplier William Sinclair faces weeks of financial uncertainty as it urgently searches for strategic options, according to this week’s interim results...
The GTN Xtra team will be at SOLEX all next week bringing you the SOLEX SUN so we will be on the look out for next year’s Outdoor Living bestsellers...
The GIMA Awards are proving to be the most hotly contested competition of the year with the number of entries, totalling around 200, beating all recent records...
Diversified Communications UK’s Casual Dining show – the award winning trade event for the UK’s multiple restaurant and pub group sector – has won ‘Best Tradeshow Exhibition under 2,000sq.m’ at the AEO Awards for a second time in its first two years of business...
The director general of Gardenex and PetQuip, Amanda Sizer Barrett, has urged British firms not to neglect reviewing the ways they handle their overseas business...
Five gold winners of The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales Awards will have the added prize of receiving their prizes at this year's spoga+gafa exhibition in Cologne, Germany. One person from each of the five winners will be treated to travel to and from Cologne plus one night's accommodation as The Greatest Awards really celebrate going on tour this year.
Poplars, Groves and Barton Grange have all won Gold in The Greatest Awards. Which garden centres will be leaving the HTA Futures Conference with Gold this year?
Greenfingers are calling in any remaining monies raised from Garden Re-Leaf Day earlier this year so the final tally can be calculated and The Greatest Awards expert judges will be deciding wgo should be The Greatest Garden Re-Leaf Day Fundraising Retail team...
Garden lighting sales, added to a boost in plant feed products, pushed June figures for GTN Bestsellers Garden Products up by 5.6% on the same month last year and up 15% on 2013...
A garden celebrating the influence of women in gardening earned a special visit from HRH Princess Alexandra and a silver medal at this week’s RHS Hampton Court Flower Show...
The heat may be coming out of growing media sales but to reach the half year up 7.2% on last year and up 11.7% on 2013 reflects just what a great gardening year it has been. Bark sales are a notable sales performer this week as the lack of rain and the heat prompts customers to seek out mulching solutions to keep their plants in tip top condition...
Reports have appeared in The Uttoxeter Pres and Times of a break-in at Byrkley Park Garden Centre, one of the Klondyke-Strikes group of garden centres...
