Having proven its economic model, Greenfingers.com is now looking to double the scale of its business in the next three years. Part of that expansion includes the recruitment of a Senior Buyer...
The organisers of Garden Re-Leaf Day – the annual season-starting garden retail event in aid of children's garden charity Greenfingers – have announced a new and simple way to enable garden product and plant suppliers to get involved in time for the big day on March 14...
Greenfingers, the charity dedicated to creating magical gardens at children’s hospices around the UK, has started work on its first new garden of 2014 at Chestnut Tree House children’s hospice in Sussex...
Ian Flounders, of Woodlodge Products, is taking part in a marathon rowing race called the Celtic Challenge in May, along with members of member of Crannog Rowing Club (pictured), to raise money for charity, including Greenfingers...
The weather may not be great for gardening – as reduced year-on-year sales volumes in our Veg 2 Gro and Growing Media charts indicate – but total garden centre volume sales were up on the past two years for the fifth consecutive week. It could be catering and gifts that are keeping sales up as we move into February...
Twenty-two of this week’s Garden Products Chart Top 50 products are from the Gardman stable, testimony to the success of the company’s current topical promotions strategy...
The Garden Centre Association’s new chairman Will Armitage has pledged to rejuvenate the organisation’s regional groups as he took on the chains of office at the organisation's recent national conference...
Regarded as the ultimate trade experience, BETA International covers equestrian, country clothing, outdoor and pet product sectors, and is built on a rich tradition of innovation, design and invention.
Garden centre catering operators will come together next week (12 February) for the HTA Catering Conference – Ingredients for Success, which takes place at the Hilton Hotel, Coventry...
The Smart Solar head office team is expanding in line with increasing sales to ensure that trade customers continue to receive outstanding customer service.
Gardman is giving its retail partners 10 more Stronger Off£ers, with savings of up to £40 off RRP, in time for the British Trust for Ornithology’s (BTO) National Nest Box Week, which takes place beteen February 14-21...
Aggregates continue to be core to the Kelkay business. This fact has been underlined by the company’s recent and substantial investment in opening up another 10 acres of its land bank...
New GIMA member Textice Ltd was established 20 years ago and now has an ever growing range of innovative products, including the Twisters Plant supports...
‘Cosmic Purple’ carrot seeds from Thompson & Morgan is the highest new entry in the GTN Bestsellers Veg-2-Gro chart , closely tailed by the first appearance of Cucumber ‘Jogger’...
While the bad weather may have put a brake on seed sales, forward-looking customers will still be preparing in earnest to sow veg and flower seeds over the next few weeks, so it’s reasonable to expect sales of growing media to increase in tandem with the desire...
Hollywood star Jude Law and Dr Who actor David Tennant (pictured) have joined the growing list of household-name celebrities to support Garden Re-Leaf Day’s popular Gardening Quiz, by recording a round of questions. The brain-teasing audio quiz is available as a customer event opportunity to any garden centre taking part in the annual fund-raising day in March...
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:
The Hillview Group have entered into a strategic alliance with The Garden Store and Burford House Garden Store, with the intention of acquiring the businesses. Boyd J Douglas-Davies (pictured), CEO, Hillview Garden Centres, said the deal would add six new centres to their portfolio...
The organisers of Garden Re-Leaf Day – the annual season-starting garden retail event in aid of children's garden charity Greenfingers – have announced a new and simple way to enable garden product and plant suppliers to get involved in time for the big day on March 14...
Regarded as the ultimate trade experience, BETA International covers equestrian, country clothing, outdoor and pet product sectors, and is built on a rich tradition of innovation, design and invention.
