If Australian retailer Wesfarmers closes the deal to buy Homebase, the UK garden and home improvement market will have formidable new competition in short order...
Newshound here – woof woof! What a week! There I was, sniffing a few trouserlegs (harmless enough) on the way to the boozer when the old dog and bone rattled my eardrums and I was ordered off to darkest Horncastle...
Winter weather arrives at last and we see the first sales of sledges and rock salt in the EPoS data provided by garden centres for GTN Bestsellers. There are also notable increases in sales of Frostgard, logs and fuels for fires.
The six finalists in the GCA Westland Rising Stars are rehearsing their presentations this weekend in readiness for the final part of their quest to become the Rising Star at the GCA Conference in Brighton...
Representatives from across the horticulture industry came together on 19 January for the parliamentary launch of the Ornamental Horticulture Roundtable Action Plan at the Palace of Westminster. The plan was described by HTA chief executive Carol Paris as heralding “a golden age” for the horticulture industry...
Thompson & Morgan is to stay in Primary Capital ownership after enjoying a positive first half (July-December) with visits to its website up 20% and record numbers of new names and retention levels...
Town & Country, has appointed a new area sales manager for the South East region. Vicky Shine has traded in a career in the city with some of the UK’s biggest investment banks, to pursue her life-long passion for gardening and a role with one of the industry’s best known brands...
Leading consumer and shopper behaviouralist Ken Hughes is appearing at the 2016 GCA annual conference next week to talk about the customer of the future...
Thrive has announced a new training bursary made possible by a touching and generous donation to the charity in the name of the late Charles Notcutt who passed away last year aged 81...
It’s year two of the HTA/GIMB Love the Plot You’ve Got campaign. Building on the success of 2015 – here’s a one-day Masterclass to demonstrate how to sell to non-gardeners – as well as gardeners.
GTN’s analyst Trevor Pfeiffer (MD of The Garden Communication & Media Company) believes December increases in seed and bulb sales posted by GCA members were the result of increased footfall as a result of Christmas visits and the ‘extra’ week-end garden centres had in December...
Following our visit to the Tuinzaken Garden Retail Experience event last year the Horticultural Trades Association has arranged an inspirational Study Tour to the Netherlands in February 2016 to take in the 2016 event and there is still some limited availability for for you to join us on the trip...
The third edition of GROW London, described by James Wong as a ‘horticultural hipsterville’, takes place again this year on Hampstead Heath (24-26 June)...
After the resounding success of The Greatest Awards ON TOUR in 2015, we are pleased to announce that in 2016 The Greatest Awards ON TOUR will be bigger and better than ever...
Here's a great way to raise £'s for Greenfingers and get your self into shape for the rest of the year by loosing weight between now and Garden Re-Leaf Day. Join GTN Xtra's Trevor Pfeiffer and Greenfingers Linda Petrons and Debs Skillicorn in Pounds 4 Greenfingers...
While Growing Media and Veg-2-Gro volume sales grew week on week and against last year, GTN’s Garden Products Top 50 chart volume sales dropped by 25% vs the same week last year...
Growing Media sales have got off to a flying Early-bird start this year. GTN Bestsellers Growing Media chart Top 50 sales volumes are over 50% up on the first two weeks of last year....
Pictures from The Greatest Christmas Gold-winning Teams
Garden centre teams excelled with their Christmas displays in 2015. Below we reveal galleries from the gold-winning teams. The galleries are sponsored by Kaemingk...
The Greatest Christmas Display award was strongly contested again this year with four garden centres picking up main awards – Silverbirch (small garden centre), The Old Railway Line (mid-sized), Barton Grange (large) and Le Friquet Plant Centre (group)...
"Rising stars is quite nerve wracking but at the end of it you feel very motivated. It is a fantastic course to go on." That's the verdict of Barton Granges' second finalist Kath Bailey...
Greenfingers is delighted to welcome Andy McIndoe to the Board, as new Trustee at Greenfingers...
