In This Issue
Do Christmas tree sales hold the key?
£5k NGGV backing for Garden Re-Leaf Day
Sales boost for Vitax Poinsettia Drip Feed expected
Whartons launch new gift rose range
Christmas judges fan out across UK
Poinsettia International Press Party produces results
Book for The Greatest Christmas Party Ever!
Garden centres hoping for a bumper December
Gardening products being bought as gifts
Snowmen make their mark
Official farewell for GCA's Gillie Westwood
Garden centre reports November growth...
Sale of Cottage Gardens Nursery in Devon
STV distributes Self Set mouse and rat traps
SunTime set to exhibit at SOLEX next July
Centenary Chelsea to promote 'greener, brighter world'
Colour brightens up dull woodcare year
New marketing role at Barrus
Voting is underway for Greatest Supplier and Greatest Garden Centre Teams at Christmas
Bestsellers Update
Bestsellers Top 50 Chart every week
 

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The Greatest Christmas Awards are organised by GTN in association with Harrogate Christmas & Gift Fair...
 

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...and generously sponsored by...
 

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Kaemingk
 

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Premier Decorations
 
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SOLEX at the NEC
 

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Vision Commercial Kitchens
 

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Snowtime
 

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Arena Group
 

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Do Christmas tree sales hold the key?


The next two weekends are traditionally the bestselling times for Christmas trees, and already the signs are looking good, according to Alton Garden Centre in Essex...
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£5k NGGV backing for Garden Re-Leaf Day
 
Garden ReLeaf Day 2013

The HTA are to back a promotion for next March’s Garden Re-Leaf Day to the tune of £5,000 in National Garden Gift Vouchers...

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Sales boost for Vitax Poinsettia Drip Feed expected
 
Vitax are expecting a surge in sales of their Poinsettia and Christmas Cacti Drip Feed over the coming weeks...
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Whartons launch new gift rose range


Whartons Nurseries are launching a new ‘Bouquet Rose Range’ in large 4.5 litre pots with vibrant and colorful pot wraps to enhance the product and enable it to extend the all-important gift market...
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Christmas judges fan out across UK
 
An impessive lit reindeer welcomes customers at the entrance to Garden Pride Garden Centre at Ditchling, West Sussex.
An impessive lit reindeer welcomes customers at the entrance to Garden Pride Garden Centre at Ditchling, West Sussex.
Dozens of garden centres across the UK have been visited by GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards judging panel over the past few weeks in the search for the nation’s top Christmas teams...
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Poinsettia International Press Party produces results
 
An international press party organised by Stars for Europe and PR company Purple Spotted Media is helping to raise the profile of poinsettias...
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Book for The Greatest Christmas Party Ever!
 
The Greatest Christmas Awards Party Book your tickets for the finale to The Greatest Christmas Awards for 2012 – the magnificent awards party to be be held at the Majestic Hotel, Harrogate, on 13 January...
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Garden centres hoping for a bumper December
 
With only four weeks of serious retailing left for the year, the GTN Bestsellers All Barcode Products Index sits at 0.3% down compared to last year...so a great final run into Christmas will get the index back to the same level as 2011!
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Gardening products being bought as gifts
 
There’s plenty of evidence in the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart that consumers are choosing gardening tools and accessories as ideal gifts for family and friends this Christmas...
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Snowmen make their mark


Just as the temperatures start to drop, snowmen are starting to make an impact in the GTN Bestsellers Christmas chart...
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Official farewell for GCA's Gillie Westwood
 
More than 60 past and present members and associate members of the Garden Centre Association attended a farewell party this week for their popular former chief executive, Gillie Westwood, who retired earlier this year...
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Garden centre reports November growth...
 
Whose upper lip is pictured here, sporting its new growth in aid of the Movember campaign supporting men's health charities?
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