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Wyevale Marlow closed after field fire

Wyevale's Marlow Garden Centre is closed today after a fire in nearby fields yesterday evening engulfed the centre and surrounding roads in smoke...
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June up 14% on last year as plants and growing media star
Up to the minute sales data analysis from GTN Bestsellers


Headline data, fresh in from GTN Bestsellers, shows that June was another great month for garden centre sales with volumes up by 14% on last year...
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Smart Garden Products win Supplier of the Year in France
Smart Garden Products are very proud of their French team who picked up a prestigious award for Supplier of the Year in the Lighting Category, voted for by garden centre buyers in France. The decision was based on sales potential, product range and innovation, service and availability...
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In the pink as Rose Festivals continue

Dianthus and Rose sales both saw significant increases on the same week last year as garden centre planterias are looking radiant in the summer sun...
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GIMA Awards decided: find out who won on July 12

Following a hot day of judging at Warwick Racecourse on Wednesday, where around 200 entries were considered, the winners of the 2018 GIMA Awards have now been confirmed. However, the garden retail industry has to wait a few more weeks to find out who wins, when this year’s winners are revealed on July 12th at the five-star Celtic Manor Resort...
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Businessman rescues two garden centres facing closure
A Milton Keynes businessman has rescued a second garden centre facing closure, saving a total of 40 jobs and vowing to invest in the new ventures to make them “a supplier of quality products to gardening enthusiasts.”
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Homebase to cut over 300 head office jobs and reports emerge of 40 store closures

Homebase is to cut over 300 jobs at its Milton Keynes head office, the company has confirmed...
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Greenfingers Charity bags cash from Squire’s
Greenfingers has bagged £4,219 thanks to Squire’s Garden Centres. The garden centre group donated the proceeds of the government carrier bag tax to the charity, as well as money raised from a 12-hour “Plant-a-thon” that the Squire’s team took part in...
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Hot weather helps sales bloom for garden centres in May

Garden centres across the country saw a boost in May sales thanks to the good weather and two Bank Holidays according to the Garden Centre Association’s Barometer of Trade report...
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Interest in SOLEX up by 35% for 2018

The first issue of this year's SOLEX SUN, published last week, has received record readership so we're expecting a busier than ever SOLEX at the NEC...
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National Survey shows we’re wild about wildlife in our gardens!
To celebrate Countryfile’s 30th Anniversary Garden at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show (3 – 8 July), the RHS has commissioned research to find out what gardeners are doing to support wildlife and what creatures visiting our gardens...
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Meet GES – the Retail Lab @ Glee stand contractors

Earlier this year, the organisers of Glee undertook a tender process to source a new stand contractor to help the show’s leading feature – the Retail Lab – come to life. One company stood out, and that was GES – one of the world’s leading experiential marketing and exhibition and events management brands...
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Gift wrap goes green at The Gardens Group
The Gardens Group has enhanced its environmental credentials once again this month, by switching to eco-friendly wrapping at all three of its garden centres...
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Klondyke Rose Festival in full blooom

Over the last few weeks, The Klondyke Group’s Rose Festival has been running in full bloom...
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Nursery offers solution to help staff beat the heat
Johnsons of Whixley, which is based between York and Harrogate, has purchased and installed freezers at key locations through its 200-acre site – and filled them with complimentary ice creams and ice lollies for staff to enjoy...
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Six staff members clock up 195 years of service

Six staff members from Wyevale Nurseries in Hereford were recently presented with medals to honour their long service to the company...
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Brookside celebrate 50 years in style

Alison, Simon, Beryl and Terry Shead celebrated 50 years of Brookside Garden Centre in East Peckham, Kent, last night with a party for over 400 guests that included customers, staff and suppliers...
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Growing garden centre business appoints Commercial Director
Tong Garden Centre has strengthened its senior management team with a board level appointment. Sharon McNair has been promoted to the newly created position of Commercial Director...
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Huge rises for plant feeds
Plant feeds have seen huge sales increases as the summer heat continues. This week there are 13 feed lines in the GTN Bestsellers Top 50, with nine of them in the Top 20...
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Fryer’s Roses to Launch Two New Roses at RHS Hampton Court 2018
Fryer’s Roses, part of the Blue Diamond Group of garden centres, is to launch two new roses at this year’s RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show - “Eirene” to commemorate the centenary of the end of WW1 and “Sarah Elizabeth” in memory of a young lady, who tragically lost her life in 2013...
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Salad days for veg sales
Herbs and salad leaves lead the way in the GTN Bestsellers Veg-2-Gro chart in the third week of June...
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Osteospermum Purple Sun wins FleuroStar Award
Fleuroselect, the international organisation for the ornamental plants industry, is proud to announce that the FleuroStar Award 2018/19 goes to Osteospermum ecklonis Purple Sun from Selecta one...
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Bumper Summer sales boost for growing media
A bumper week of summer growing media sales sees June sit at 33% ahead of last year for the month to date...
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Steve Millington joins Tom Chambers
Steve Millington has joined Tom Chambers as National Account Manager.
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Gardman back on track with wild bird care sales
Wild Bird care sales volumes saw a small increase last week and for the first time since the start of March the week was up on last year too...
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Firefighters tackle blaze at garden centre
Firefighters were called to a plastic fire at a South Cheshire garden centre on Wednesday...
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
The bids are in for 145 Wyevale Garden Centres
As the deadline clicked over yesterday, 26th June 2018, for bids in the first round of the sale of 145 Wyevale Garden Centres by Terra Firma, GTN’s Trevor Pfeiffer met with CEO Roger McLaughlan for the first of what we hope will be a series of meetings to keep us all updated during the potentially lengthy sales process...
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Seven Homebase stores to close
Insight DIY has reported this week that there are now seven Homebase stores closing in the near future...
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Roses lead the way as plant sales grow to 6% up on last year
Rose Festivals across the country have provided a boost to sales and in the second week of June Roses climbed to No 3 in the GTN Bestsellers plants chart on the back of a 35% increase year on year...
See GTN Bestsellers Plants Chart plus pictures from the Baytree Rose Festival
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