In This Issue
Year of research drives major Town & Country re-brand
Revealed: Glee's first Buyers Power Shortlist
Kelkay appoints Alan Sheppard to lead UK sales department
Stick to A-Z, consumers tell Johnsons Seeds researchers
Getting ready for Glee
Revving up for the Webbs Motor Show
Glee's Top 100 chart offers clues to what's hot
The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales gold winners to be presented at spoga+gafa
Make the most of hedgehogs
HTA Futures is the venue for The Greatest Garden Centre Team Awards 2015
Sorry this issue is late
Planteria Manager - Group Centre - Hertfordshire
Area Sales Manager - Hertfordshire
Plant Area Manager - East of England
Wholesale Horticulture Manager - Kent
Netherlands trade shows to swop their top plants
Purple sprouting broccoli hits the top spot
Garden centres invited to join builders merchant network buying group
Top soil and bark are the growing media highlights
Kelkay appoints Richard Slade to senior management role
Lighting up garden product sales volumes
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
West End scoops Haskins Barista Championship
Catering Tip of the Week: The most powerful marketing tool we have?
So you want to sell soft-serve ice-cream...
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Wholesale Horticulture Manager - Kent
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Year of research drives major Town & Country re-brand

Town & Country will launch a new strategy and a new look for the brand at Glee next month to fend off increasing competition in the garden gloves and footwear categories...



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Revealed: Glee's first Buyers Power Shortlist




The organisers of Glee released the shortlist for their inaugural Glee Buyers Power List on Friday last week and voting is now open...
See the shortlists and use the link to vote
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Kelkay appoints Alan Sheppard to lead UK sales department
 

Kelkay has a new UK sales manager. Alan Sheppard, a GIMA council member and garden retail industry professional with 27 years’ experience, has joined the company from Burgon & Ball, where he was head of sales and part of the Burgon & Ball team that won two consecutive GIMA Sword of Excellence awards...

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Stick to A-Z, consumers tell Johnsons Seeds researchers
Keen consumers still like their seeds presented in an A-Z format – despite the industry’s attempts to segment displays by sub-category - a leading marketing manager said this week...

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Getting ready for Glee
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With six weeks to go until we all meet up at the NEC, the GTN team are already well into Glee preparations...
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Revving up for the Webbs Motor Show


The famous names of motoring history will be on parade on Sunday, 30th August for the  20th annual Motor Show at Webbs, the award-winning garden centre in Wychbold...
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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West End scoops Haskins Barista Championship
Haskins Barista Champs 2015 - GTN15.JPGHaskins Garden Centres held their annual Barista Championships last week with Hannah Rodgers from the West End centre winning the title Brista of the Year 2015...
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Catering Tip of the Week: The most powerful marketing tool we have?
Top advice from Garden Centre and Catering Consultant Doug Stewart

Our story defines us.

It differentiates us from the chains.

It gives us credibility and a real point of difference

It is our most powerful marketing tool...

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So you want to sell soft-serve ice-cream...







If you’re hankering after adding soft-serve ice-cream to your catering, check out the new range of self-contained soft serve ice cream and yoghurt workstations from Adande and Carpigiani...

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Glee's Top 100 chart offers clues to what's hot
A new Top 100 Product chart on the Glee website highlights the most popular products that buyers are currently viewing, offering a valuable insight into trends and potential bestsellers...

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The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales gold winners to be presented at spoga+gafa
 
Five gold winners of The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales Awards will have the added prize of receiving their prizes at this year's spoga+gafa exhibition in Cologne, Germany. One person from each of the five winners will be treated to travel to and from Cologne plus one night's accommodation, coutesy of spoga+gafa, as The Greatest Awards really celebrate going on tour this year.
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Make the most of hedgehogs
GTN Bestsellers Tip of the week
 
Every week in the background of GTN Bestsellers we keep track of the Top 50 wild bird care and wildlife products and the Jacobi Jayne ‘I Love Hedgehogs’ feed has featured in the chart every week for the past two months...
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HTA Futures is the venue for The Greatest Garden Centre Team Awards 2015
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Poplars, Groves and Barton Grange have all won Gold in The Greatest Awards.  Which garden centres will be leaving the HTA Futures Conference with Gold this year?
Nominate your Garden Centre Teams here
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Sorry this issue is late
Apologies from the GTN Xtra team that this issue didn't get published as planned over the weekend...
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