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Tesco sell Dobbies for £217m - but not to Wyevale
Leighton Buzzard GC is Home & Garden's tenth
GIMA Charity Golf Day hailed as a great success
Whitehall will grow to over 22,000 sq m of retail area
Glyphosate decision deferred yet again
Sales boost for sunny side of the country
Hilltop's play barn raises £20k for Greenfingers
January Furniture Show's future secured in NEC deal
London potholes transformed into miniature gardens
Nurseries help charity with garden at Sophie House
Plantarea Assistant Bedding Plants – Essex
Sales & Marketing Exec, Landscape Amenity Sector
Garden Sundries Retail Manager - Cornwall
Garden Sundries Retail Manager - South Gloucestershire
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Durston appoints new national sales manager
Garden lighting illuminates slugs and snails
Another strong sales week for herb plants
Squire's to host RNRS southern rose show
Multi-purpose compost is a bestseller for Durstons
Thrive showcases its ‘life changing’ floral border at BBC Gardeners’ World Live
Improved displays feature in Mr Fothergill's 2017 retail range
WorldSkills semi-finalists announced for RHS Flower Show Tatton Park
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Taming the beast at the HTA Catering Conference
Green Pastures, Fron Goch and Bents are The Greatest Garden Centre Catering Teams
The Greatest Afternoon Tea Experience Team
Poppies of Oban and Trentham Blue Diamond pick up gold as The Greatest Garden Centre Coffee Teams
Timmermans wins The Greatest Garden Centre Chef Team Award
Fron Goch and Squires Badshot Lea crowned The Greatest Garden Centre Front of House Teams
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Tesco sell Dobbies for £217m - but not to Wyevale
Tesco has this morning confirmed the sale of its Dobbies Garden Centres business to an investor group led by Midlothian Capital Partners and Hattington Capital...
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Leighton Buzzard GC is Home & Garden's tenth
Leighton Buzzard Garden Centre will become the Home and Garden Group’s tenth centre next week...

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GIMA Charity Golf Day hailed as a great success


Twenty teams battled it out for honour of being crowned the GIMA Charity Golf Day champions at Telford Hotel and Golf Resort on Thursday with Grange being presented with the winners' trophy by ex-professional footballer Steve Kindon...
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Whitehall will grow to over 22,000 sq m of retail area


Wiltshire Council Strategic planning committee have approved the application for the reordering and expansion of Whitehall Garden Centre, Lacock, up to 22,572 sq m of retail space...
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Glyphosate decision deferred yet again

The future of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup and other weedkillers, is still uncertain after the European Commission failed yet again to re-licence its use earlier this week...

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Sales boost for sunny side of the country


Half term saw a distinct East-West split in garden centre sales due to the weather. The GTN Bestsellers team experienced it for real while out judging for The Greatest Catering Awards and that has certainly been backed up by the Epos data supplied for our Bestsellers analysis...
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Hilltop's play barn raises £20k for Greenfingers

Hilltop Garden Store, near Chipping Norton, has raised more than £20,000 for Greenfingers through takings from its children’s play barn...

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Taming the beast at the HTA Catering Conference


Catering is a beast. The customer is king. It’s all about cake, coffee and hot food. Coffee is a culture. Casual diners still expect excellent service. Local is a given nowadays. These were the sounds of the HTA Catering Conference, sponsored by Vision Commercial Kitchens, that took place at The Belfry Hotel and Resort, near Sutton Coldfield, this week...
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Green Pastures, Fron Goch and Bents are The Greatest Garden Centre Catering Teams


Green Pastures, Fron Goch and Bents all picked up golds in GTN's prestigious Greatest Garden Centre Catering Teams categories...
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The Greatest Afternoon Tea Experience Team
Green Pastures picked up a second gold to clinch the Greatest Aftrenoon Tea Experience...
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Poppies of Oban and Trentham Blue Diamond pick up gold as The Greatest Garden Centre Coffee Teams

Poppies of Oban and Trentham Blue Diamond were joint gold winners in The Greatest Garden Centre Coffee Team category. Silver went to Fron Goch (pictured receiving their award)...
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Timmermans wins The Greatest Garden Centre Chef Team Award
Timmermans were crowned The Greatest Garden Centre Chef Team...
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Fron Goch and Squires Badshot Lea crowned The Greatest Garden Centre Front of House Teams

The Greatest Garden Centre Front of House Team category was hotly contested so it was no surprise to see to gold winners in Fron Goch and Squires Badshot Lea...
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January Furniture Show's future secured in NEC deal



Organisers of the January Furniture Show confirmed this week that they've signed a new long-term deal with the National Exhibition Centre...

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London potholes transformed into miniature gardens


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is getting to the bottom of London’s pothole crisis by teaming up with Steve Wheen, The Pothole Gardener, to beautify the unsightly holes that line the London city streets in the most unexpected of ways...
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Nurseries help charity with garden at Sophie House


Wyevale Nurseries has collaborated with Nick Dunn of Frank Matthews of Tenbury Wells and together supplied the trees and plants for a charity garden on the outskirts of the city...
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