In This Issue
Garden centre sales up 30% in September
Hozelock unveils impressive range of sprayers for 2021
Christmas gets off to a flying start – up 71%
The birth of a brand: Woodlodge’s new Honey & Wild range to ignite sales of garden décor in 2021
September plant sales beat last year by 50%
Blue Diamond interim results show resilient performance
Garden centres must work in partnership with suppliers
Visors out sell facemasks in garden centres
Missed the Ball Colegrave Summer Trials?
Video: Rudbeckia range exceeds expectations at Hyde Hall
Greenfingers thanks Evergreen Garden Care for support
Christmas displays return to The Gardens Group
Neudorff is a finalist in the German Sustainability Award
The unique BucketBarrow arrives In UK
Dobbies to host Spooktacular events this Halloween
New Hortes garden centre in Riga opens this month
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Retirement Village plan submitted for Solihull garden centre site
Fervour to grow sees record growing media sales
Robotime, a Chinese brand of DIY Model Kits come to UK garden centres
New record high for garden product sales
This year, GrootGroenPlus goes digital - will you join us?
'Knowing their Onions' sees Autumn Grow Your Own rise to new high
AIPH looks to the future with new members and new strategic plan
Wild Bird and Wildlife Care products show signs of growth
HTA statement on Migration Advisory Committee review
The best of last week's
September garden centre sales head for 20% up
Santa’s Grotto at Hillmount opens for Pre-Booking
Autumn plant sales head back towards past glories
Award-winning Zest 4 Leisure launch lifestyle product video support package
Tong appoints project manager for Food Hall makeover
Wild Bird Care dissapoints so far this Autumn
Royal seal of approval for HTA #MillionPlantingMoments campaign
Nicola Pugh joins the HTA Council
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to the GTN Bestsellers printed weekly newsletter
All the latest news from the world of pet products
New dates for PATS Sandown 2021
UK pet food industry performance revealed in new report
Winners of the PetQuip Awards 2020 revealed
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Garden centre sales up 30% in September
Exclusive GTN Bestsellers Epos data analysis

We predicted September to be 20% up but with continued high levels of gardening activity and Christmas starting with a bang the month ended up 31% on last year...

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Hozelock unveils impressive range of sprayers for 2021
GTN Xtra Promotion

Sprayers are suitable for applying many different garden chemicals, offering an economical solution to treating large areas effectively and comfortably. In 2021, Hozelock launches its new, complete range of sprayers compatible with a variety of different treatments to meet the needs of every gardener...

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Christmas gets off to a flying start – up 71%

Wow! What a start to our monitoring of garden centre Christmas sales. The first GTN Bestsellers Christmas chart of the season shows sales volumes up by 71% on last year. And not all of the centres we get data from have started selling Christmas yet!

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The birth of a brand: Woodlodge’s new Honey & Wild range to ignite sales of garden décor in 2021
GTN Xtra Promotion

The garden décor category is set to undergo a big transformation for 2021 with the launch of Woodlodge’s exciting new Honey & Wild range – a carefully curated portfolio with huge potential to drive sales thanks to its unique collection of fun, quirky garden products that are guaranteed to enhance any garden...

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September plant sales beat last year by 50%
 

September plant sales set a new GTN Bestsellers record for the month, beating last year’s totals by a mere 50%...

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Blue Diamond interim results show resilient performance

 

Blue Diamond have reported profits before tax of £6.3m for the six months to June 2020. Chairman Simon Burke believes that garden centres will be one of the winners from this crisis...

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Garden centres must work in partnership with suppliers
 

GCA and GIMA members concluded during a recent webinar that garden centres will need to work in partnership with suppliers to minimise future supply chain disruption. Vicky Nuttall, GIMA Director, said: “There was a strong message from the suppliers involved in the forum about importance of pre-season in ensuring continuity of supply for 2021."

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Visors out sell facemasks in garden centres

Over the past few weeks the sales of decorative face masks in UK garden centres have steadily increased, but last week the Epos data supplied for GTN Bestsellers revealed that at face visor line had outsold the different face mask lines available...

 

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Missed the Ball Colegrave Summer Trials?

Ball Colegrave totally understand many were unable to visit their Trial Grounds in July. That’s why they have put together a short video highlighting some of the standout new Annual varieties and product displays...

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New dates for PATS Sandown 2021

Organisers of PATS Sandown have announced the show will be moving to a new date in 2021. The two-day pet industry exhibition will now be held on Tuesday, May 11th, and Wednesday, May 12th, again at Sandown Park, Surrey...

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UK pet food industry performance revealed in new report

The Pet Food Manufacturers’ Association has published a full UK Pet Data Report 2020, making indepth data available to a wider audience for the first time...

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Winners of the PetQuip Awards 2020 revealed

Following six months of turmoil caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the UK pet industry can finally celebrate some good news with the announcement of the 2020 PetQuip Awards winners...

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Video: Rudbeckia range exceeds expectations at Hyde Hall

Within the framework of the 'Year of the Rudbeckia' home garden marketing campaign, Fleuroselect together with broadcaster and Sun gardening columnist Peter Seabrook planted a trial of over 80 Rudbeckia varieties at the Royal Horticultural Society's garden Hyde Hall in Essex.

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Greenfingers thanks Evergreen Garden Care for support

The Greenfingers Charity welcomes support from all corners of the garden retail sector, with many retailers and suppliers pulling together to help raise much needed funds. One such supplier is Evergreen Garden Care, which has once again dug deep to help Greenfingers build even more treasured garden spaces at children’s hospices across the country...

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Christmas displays return to The Gardens Group

The Gardens Group has announced plans for the return of its award-winning Christmas displays in Sherborne, Yeovil and Poundbury next month, including a comprehensive range of new measures designed to keep families safe and socially distanced as they soak up the festivities and get transported to magical winter wonderlands...

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Neudorff is a finalist in the German Sustainability Award
 

The German Sustainability Award is one of the most important awards of its kind in Europe. On September 24th, 2020, the expert jury announced the finalists of this year's nominations. Neudorff will enter the finals in the category "Transformation Resources"...

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The unique BucketBarrow arrives In UK

Magic Distribution have taken their first delivery of BucketBarrow this week. Originally designed and developed for gardeners and the construction industry in Australia, BucketBarrow is a truly unique and tough wheelbarrow that until now has only been available down under...

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Dobbies to host Spooktacular events this Halloween

Dobbies are inviting families to come and enjoy a spine-tingling time of tricks and treats at their Dobbies’ Halloween Spooktacular which takes place from Thursday 29 to Saturday 31 October in selected stores...

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New Hortes garden centre in Riga opens this month

Hortes garden centre chain will open its third garden centre in Riga this month. In this way they grow in a short time to three locations, two of them were previously built in Estonia...

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