In This Issue
Win a £3,950 reindeer for your centre
NEXT group heads for 12 home & garden stores
Summer sales keep the gap ahead of last year
Allensmore grab 40 acres for growth
Gardeners see the light as they remain active
'Gregg Wallace' is working at Whitehall Garden Centre...
Mr Fothergill award for Capel Manor student
Guess where the GCA Conference will be in 2014…and you could win champers!
How does your supplier rate your fine food offering?
Are you looking to solve acoustics problems in your café or restaurant?
New sweet pea honours racehorse trainer Sir Henry Cecil
Snowy garden wins garden centre a gold medal
Aiming for the A-List
Gardman appoint key accounts manager
Seeds are GYO bestsellers all summer long
Mere Park Garden Centre: clarification
Mark wins soccer bronze at Jewish Olympics
Mixed weather boosts Bosmere sales
HTA Garden Retail Monitor confirms GTN Bestsellers early trend analysis
Growing media sales stay ahead of last year
Melcourt to launch peat-free compost for gardeners
Are you planning for next year yet?
GTN Bestsellers - garden centre sales data every week
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
 

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Win a £3,950 reindeer for your centre

Visitors to GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards party in January can win a magnificent 4 metre tall reindeer, as seen at SOLEX...

  

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NEXT group heads for 12 home & garden stores
The Next group could have at least 12 stores with garden centres by the end of 2015...

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Summer sales keep the gap ahead of last year


More summer-like conditions over the past couple of months have helped to boost business at garden centres throughout the country. The GTN Bestsellers All Products Index reveals that summer sales have helped to keep volumes ahead of the same period last year...
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Allensmore grab 40 acres for growth
Allensmore Nurseries have acquired 40 acres of land at Madley in Herefordshire for further expansion...
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Gardeners see the light as they remain active


Data collected for the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart reveals there is still a lot of gardening activity happening and that householders are spending as much time as possible outside...as well as at garden centres!
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'Gregg Wallace' is working at Whitehall Garden Centre...
 
What’s Gregg Wallace doing behind a desk at Whitehall Garden Centre, Lacock?...
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Mr Fothergill award for Capel Manor student
Capel Manor College student Marcus Papa is the 2013 winner of Mr Fothergill's Award for outstanding plant care skills...


Mr Fothergill's commercial director Tim Jeffries presents the shield to Marcus Papa.


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Guess where the GCA Conference will be in 2014…and you could win champers!
 
The GCA have released the second clue in their competition to guess the new venue for their annual conference...
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How does your supplier rate your fine food offering?
A new competition to find the best fine food retailer is an opportunity for garden centres...

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Are you looking to solve acoustics problems in your café or restaurant?


Acoustics is an area often overlooked when designing a café or restaurant space and yet critical to achieving the right ambience for your customers - particularly in large, airy spaces with high ceilings...
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New sweet pea honours racehorse trainer Sir Henry Cecil
A new sweet pea for the 2014 season from Mr Fothergill's was named Sir Henry Cecil this week in honour of Britain's greatest racehorse trainer, who died earlier this year...
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Snowy garden wins garden centre a gold medal
Monkton Elm Garden & Pet Centre won a large gold medal at the Taunton Flower Show for a garden covered in snow...

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Aiming for the A-List


The Bourne family at Perrywood Garden Centre want to make the GCA’s A-list – and there are two generations helping to make it happen, as Mike Wyatt discovered in this months Garden Trade News...

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