Retail solutions specialist SpaceandPeople has confirmed it has won a five-year contract with The Garden Centre Group. The company markets, sells and administers space in high footfall venues, including garden centres...
Last chance to vote for The Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year Voting for The Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year ends on Christmas Eve
Here's the last chance for garden centres across the country to vote for their Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year. We count one vote per garden centre and the winners are announced at The Greatest Awards Christmas Party in January.
Take one look at this week's GTN Bestsellers All Products chart above and you’ll see that sales volumes are 15% higher than 2012 – a cracking performance considering difficult trading conditions earlier in the year...
Gardeners have really got into a festive floral mood with houseplants, cover pots and drip feeders dominating sales of garden products. Topping the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart is the Fito Drip Feeder for Poinsettia & Christmas Cactus – it’s worth noting that it was third in the chart this time last year...
Garden centres taking part in Garden Re-Leaf Day 2014 – the garden industry’s annual, season-starting charity fund-raising day – can win a ‘money-can’t buy’, footfall-boosting visit to their garden centre by popular ITV gardener David Domoney on Sunday 16th March 2014.
Deco-Pak, a leading supplier of garden aggregates and decorative accents, has run a birdfeeder design competition involving pupils from Shelley First School in Huddersfield, giving them the opportunity to try their hands at garden product design from an early age...
Tickets are selling fast for The Greatest Christmas Awards Party on Sunday, January 12, 2014 at the Majestic Hotel in Harrogate...so make sure you don't miss out!
Christmas lights sales in the GTN Bestsellers Christmas Products Top 50 for the second week of December are 40% higher than at the same time last year. LED lighting has seen a surge in interest with 10 lines in the chart compared to seven in 2012...
A mild start to December helped keep the GTN Bestellers Growing Media Top 50 sales volumes total up by 3.6% on 2011 levels, a creditable performance when you consider they were 35% down after the first 15 important weeks of the year...
More pictures of Garden Centre Christmas displays than have ever been published before
The GTN team and Greatest Awards Experts have already been out and about visiting garden centres throughout the country and have seen some brilliant Christmas displays. Here's a selection of the 2013 displays that are selling through now. Just click on the garden centre name to take you to their picture gallery:
Following a record number of applications from 15 colleges across the UK, five scholars have been awarded Student Scholarships of £1,000 by the David Colegrave Foundation (DCF)...
Stax & Wilshart has launched its Garden Collection for 2014 with a garden range of well over 3,000 lines from market leading brands such as Doff and Hozelock...
Following the acquisition of Borderstone from Aggregate Industries at the end of November, Kelkay is now focusing on the key product areas moving forward...
Vivid Arts Ltd has commenced legal proceedings in the English High Court against Tom Chambers Ltd based on allegations of copyright infringement...
