In This Issue
On-line Christmas Customer Votes pour in - your Garden Centre can join in too!
Woof woof: the tail of the two departing executives…
Sunningdale win Garden Centre of the Year Award at glitzy Hillier event
Wanted - more Greenfingers runners for London Santa Run on Sunday 6th December
Chartered Institute of Horticulture awards Services Contract to the Horticultural Trades Association
Politicians are keen to back horticulture, Commons reception told
Winter kicks in and drives sales of lighting and houseplant feeds
Christmas Eve is the peak time for sales of poinsettias, claim Wyevale Garden Centres
Mr Fothergill's marks Peter's 80th with painting of Seabrook's lavender
Garden Media Guild lifetime award for Adrian Bloom
Voting postcards and posters for in-store voting - The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Team
Are you The Greatest at selling Pet Christmas products?
Vote for your Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year
Book your tickets for GTN’s Greatest Christmas Party
Bedding Department Head - West Horsley
Field Sales Support (Vivid Arts Ltd) - ideal location East / South Manchester with access to M60
Key Accounts Manager – Outdoor Living
Bedding Department Head - Twickenham
Plantarea Horticultural Manager - Berkshire
Contracts Manager – Leeds Area
Bedding Department Head - Stanmore
Garden Centre Sundries Shop Manager - Northamptonshire
Allensmore Nurseries Announce New General Manager
Garden centre Christmas gets an airing on Radio 4
Titchmarsh evening raises £3,000 for soldiers' charity
Christmas sales 3.4% up – on course for a record
There’s much more growing going on, even in November
Choir-a-thon at Webbs set to raise voices for hospices
Lawn Academy success – Extra spaces now available!
New Marketing Executive for Town & Country
Gardman supports Healthy Profits Roadshow
Wyevale Nurseries plans for the future
Best landscape gardener in the UK...it's official!
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Garden centre strikes gold with new coffee shop and restaurant
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Bedding Department Head - West Horsley
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Field Sales Support (Vivid Arts Ltd) - ideal location East / South Manchester with access to M60
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On-line Christmas Customer Votes pour in - your Garden Centre can join in too!

"The staff were friendly and amusing and stayed in character during our entire visit to see Santa and my kids were in awe at being allowed to stroke and feed real reindeer."

"They made our children's experience magical and heartwarming and also as adults we loved every minute."

"Made my 3 year old and 1 year old laugh and smile. I do have one complaint though, my kids haven't shut up about Santa since we went there haha."

Just some of the wonderful reasons customers have given when voting for The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Team using the on-line voting system linked from garden centre's social media pages or websites...
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Woof woof: the tail of the two departing executives…
Woof woof, it's me. GTN Xtra Newshound here. Just call me Hound. I'm on the trail of two senior executives said to be leaving a certain large target. So why...?
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Sunningdale win Garden Centre of the Year Award at glitzy Hillier event


Hillier Garden Centres staff and suppliers enjoyed a glitzy night at the Grand Harbour Hotel in Southampton on Sunday 29th November with Sunningdale Garden Centre winning the Overall Hillier Garden Centre of the Year Award...
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Wanted - more Greenfingers runners for London Santa Run on Sunday 6th December


The Greenfingers Charity have more places available for the London Santa Run which takes place on 6th December in Victoria Park...
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Chartered Institute of Horticulture awards Services Contract to the Horticultural Trades Association
    

The Board of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture has announced that it will be transferring its membership secretariat services to the Horticultural Trades Association from 15 December 2015...
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Politicians are keen to back horticulture, Commons reception told
Clear messages of strong support at government level for gardening and horticulture were a feature of this week’s 16th annual reception at the House of Commons of the All Party Parliamentary Gardening & Horticulture Group...
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Winter kicks in and drives sales of lighting and houseplant feeds


It’s all change in the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products Top 50 chart this week as winter weather really kicks in. Half of the Top 50 are either new or re-entries as lighting, houseplant feeds and winter garden decoration items increase in sales faster week on week than even products in our Christmas chart...
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Christmas Eve is the peak time for sales of poinsettias, claim Wyevale Garden Centres
 
Wyevale Garden Centres predicts a peak sales of poinsettias on Christmas Eve based on year upon year sales trends...
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Mr Fothergill's marks Peter's 80th with painting of Seabrook's lavender


Suffolk seedsman Mr Fothergill's marked leading garden writer Peter Seabrook's 80th birthday earlier this month with the gift of a painting of Verbena Seabrook's Lavender by botanical artist Isobel Bartholomew...
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Garden Media Guild lifetime award for Adrian Bloom






The Garden Media Guild presented a Lifetime Achievment Award to plantsman, nurseryman and author Adrian Bloomat the guild's 2015 awards ceremony in London on Thursday...
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Garden centre strikes gold with new coffee shop and restaurant


Strikes Garden Centre at Stokesley, North Yorkshire, has transformed its catering offering with the new Topiary Coffee Shop and Restaurant, which is three times the size of its former café. It’s part of the centre’s extensive redevelopment programme...
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Voting postcards and posters for in-store voting - The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Team
  

Voting is now underway and runs through to 4:00 pm on Christmas Eve to find out which garden centre has The Greatest Christmas Team...
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Are you The Greatest at selling Pet Christmas products?
 
A new category has been added to The Greatest Christmas Awards for 2015. Our team of experts will now also be looking for The Greatest Christmas Pet Sales Team...
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Vote for your Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year


As part of The Greatest Christmas Awards, garden centres get the chance to vote for the supplier they feel has been their Greatest Christmas Suppleir of the Year...
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Book your tickets for GTN’s Greatest Christmas Party


Tickets are now on sale for GTN’s The Greatest Christmas Awards Party, sponsored by Premier Decorations.Come and join us for the party of the year in Harrogate on Sunday 10th January 2016...
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