GTN presented their Greatest Garden Centre Awards after dinner at the HTA Garden Futures conference last week.
Gold Awards for Garden Centre Team of the Year went to Perrywood and Castle Gardens; the Garden Care Team of the Year Gold Award was won by Aylett Nurseries; Smart Garden Products were voted as The Greatest Garden Products Supplier of the Year by all of the centres we visited during the spring and summer; and the GCA Grow training sheme won Gold for The Greatest Training Initiative of the Year.
Commmenting on the winners, GTN’s Trevor Pfeiffer, who presented the awards with BBC TV journalist and Countryfile presenter Tom Heap, said: “The winners of these awards were the teams who best used great teamwork to achieve excellent retailing, not just in one part of the centre but across all departments from shop front to planteria and from restaurant to garden furniture sales.”
Winners
The Greatest Garden Care Retail Team of the Year
Bronze Award: Blue Diamond Group
Silver Award: Altons
Gold Award: Aylett Nurseries
The Greatest Garden Centre Customer Service Team of the Year
Bronze Award: Planters Tamworth
Silver Award: Chessington
Gold Award: Fron Goch
The Greatest Garden Centre Merchandising Team of the Year
Bronze Award: Barton Grange
Silver Award: Millbrook Gravesend
Gold Award: Perrywood
The Greatest Garden Centre Training Team or Initiative of the Year
Gold Award – GCA Grow
The Greatest Garden Products Supplier of the Year
Gold Award – Smart Garden Products
The Greatest Garden Centre Team of the Year
Bronze Award – Millbrook Gravesend
Silver Award – Fron Goch
Gold Award – Perrywood and Castle Gardens
Finalists
- Altons
- Aylett Nurseries
- Barton Grange
- Baytree
- Bents
- Birkacre
- Blue Diamond Group
- Burston
- Castle Gardens
- Chessington
- Christies Fochabers
- Coolings
- Coolings Green & Pleasant
- Cowells
- Fresh@Burcot
- Fron Goch
- Glyndwr Plant Centre
- Green Pastures
- Hayes Garden World
- Hillmount
- Hillview Studley
- Langlands Leeds
- Mains of Drum
- Millbrook Gravesend
- Notcutts Woodford Park
- Perrywood
- Planters Tamworth
- Poplars
- Scotsdales
- Shackletons
- Squires Badshot Lea
- Squires Chertsey
- Stewarts Christchurch
- Stratford Garden Centre
- Strikes Garforth
- Summerhill
- Webbs Wychbold
- Whitehall Lacock
