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What a month for Blue Diamond!
Squire’s purchases Frensham Garden Centre
July continues the year of extremes
Blue Diamond East Bridgford and Webbs of Wychbold are top GCA Midlands centres
Plant sales continue up on last year
The Old Railway Line and Monkton Elm are GCA top centres in Wales & West
Gardening heads growth in UK online sales
Homebase gardening buyers face redundancy as Swindon office set to close
Get set for Cultivating Retail this Autumn
Garden centres share The Sun's Prettiest Rose glory
SunBelievable displays at RHS Hyde Hall by T&M
Ball Colegrave host successful GCA Planteria Forum
WIN a VIP ticket to spoga+gafa
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Adam Dunnett leaves Wyevale Nurseries to join Hilliers
Lowest Top 50 July week for Garden Products
Christmas spuds get growing
Growing Media follows plants upward trend
Sunshine sends garden centre sales soaring
The best of last week's
Acquisition of outdoor leisure firm Anchor Fast presents new category for Kelkay
20k social media posts greet Blue Diamond's acquisition news
Dobbies promote COO Jenkins to chief executive role
£30k damage in forklift ram raid on Notts garden centre
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Loch Fyne to sell seafood at Dobbies centres
Big name speakers confirmed for lunch! food-to-go trade show
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What a month for Blue Diamond!

July 2018 was a sparkling month for garden centre group Blue Diamond. Silver-Gilt Medals at RHS Flower Shows, eight garden centres acquired from Wyevale Garden Centres and seven awards in the GCA Midlands Region including Midlands Garden Centre of the Year for East Bridgford...

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Squire’s purchases Frensham Garden Centre

 

Squire's has announced the purchase of Frensham Garden Centre from Wheelhouse Warehousing Ltd. The deal was completed on 1 August 2018...

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July continues the year of extremes

 

Has the heatwave switched custiomer buying away from gifts and home and more into the garden?  That’s a conclusion that can be drawn from July’s GTN Bestsellers analysis.  Overall garden centre volume sales for the month were down by 11% while plants and other gardening lines were up on last year...

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Blue Diamond East Bridgford and Webbs of Wychbold are top GCA Midlands centres

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Blue Diamond's new East Bridgford centre near Nottingham (above) and Webbs of Wychbold (below) won the Midlands GCA Garden Centres of the Year awards announced last week at Brookfields Garden Centre in Nottingham...

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GCA Midlands Area full results and pictures
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Plant sales continue up on last year

 

For the fifteenth week in succession the GTN Bestsellers All Plants sales volume index is up on last year which make plant sales on the verge of breaking through the 10% up threshold. 

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The Old Railway Line and Monkton Elm are GCA top centres in Wales & West

The Old Railway Line (above) and Monkton Elm (below) won the Garden Centres of the Year Awards in the GCA's Wales & West region...

GCA Wales and West Area full results and pictures
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Gardening heads growth in UK online sales

 

 

Online sales of gardening products in the first half of the year  have grown by almost 25% year-on-year, says a new retail report...

 

 

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Homebase gardening buyers face redundancy as Swindon office set to close

Homebase gardening buyers face redundancy this month when new owners Hilco Capital close the horticulture office at Swindon, according to reports from some of the chain’s suppliers who contacted GTN Xtra last week...

 

 

Above: Homebase is back...new signage replaces Bunnings branding at St Albans

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Get set for Cultivating Retail this Autumn

Managing Director of the newly expanded Blue Diamond Group, Alan Roper, features on the programme for Cultivating Retail, the new industry conference and dinner, hosted by HTA and GIMA, taking place at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham on Tuesday 13 November...

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Loch Fyne to sell seafood at Dobbies centres

Loch Fyne have reached a deal with Dobbies to install their seafood counters in the group’s garden centres across the UK...

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Big name speakers confirmed for lunch! food-to-go trade show

Greggs, Caffè Nero, KFC, Tortilla, GAIL's Bakery & Pod are among the big who have confirmed speakers for the lunch! trade show in September...

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Garden centres share The Sun's Prettiest Rose glory

The Sun newspaper has announced the results of its Prettiest Rose Competition run through garden centres across the country with the winner coming from Ayletts Nurseries...

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SunBelievable displays at RHS Hyde Hall by T&M

If you are looking for visual plant inspiration and you are able to get to RHS Garden Hyde Hall this summer then a visit to the Thompson & Morgan Floral Fantasia garden is well worth the effort...

See GTN Xtra's photo gallery of the Floral Fantasia
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Ball Colegrave host successful GCA Planteria Forum

The Garden Centre Association (GCA) held a successful Plant Area Forum at Ball Colegrave at the end of July...

See pictures from the Forum and a full tour of the Ball Colegrave Summer Showcase
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WIN a VIP ticket to spoga+gafa

spoga+gafa are offering GTN Xtra readers the chance to win a VIP ticket to the international trade exhibition...

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