In This Issue
Let’s Go Red, White and Blue today for #FloralFriday
GrowNation and Industry Partners Provide Click & Collect to Garden Centres
We need centres re-opened, says Sun legend Peter Seabrook
Record Number of Suppliers and Garden Centres Spread a little Floral Cheer on #FloralFriday
James Stamp to the rescue
Safe Trading Guidance for all garden centres published by HTA
GrowNation announce FREE ecommerce websites for Garden Centres with local delivery route optimisation
Tricia Cox co-founder of Glendoick Garden Centre dies
Reopening your retail store: Step one - signage & screening
spoga+gafa looking ahead positively to exhibition dates in September 2020
It's not too late to colour the UK
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Hand Sanitisers retailers’ opportunity
GTN Xtra - Send to all
The best of last week's
Garden centre re-opening gains high attention
Rosebourne appoint Carol Paris as Chief Executive
A third of UK growers will be out of business before the end of the year reveals new industry survey
Introducing Cleaner Retail – helping retailers to stop the spread of Covid-19 with a one-stop solution for safe trading
It’s #FloralFriday, our favourite day of the week!
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
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Let’s Go Red, White and Blue today for #FloralFriday

To mark VE Day, Greenfingers Charity is calling on its garden industry friends to go red, white and blue today (8th May)...

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GrowNation and Industry Partners Provide Click & Collect to Garden Centres

GrowNation (grownation.co.uk), today announces partnerships with leading horticultural organisations to allow garden centres to begin selling online immediately through click & collect and local delivery services...

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We need centres re-opened, says Sun legend Peter Seabrook

Last week as questions were asked in parliament about the re-opening of garden centres The Sun newspaper published an article by Peter Seabrook alongside it's comment column on pages 12 and 13.  In the article Peter writes of his love of gardening and his personal loss following the death of his wife Margaret.

 

"No one knows better than me what blessed relief it is to be out in the garden.... So please fling the gates to the garden centres open, Boris, and save the horticultural industry.  As I till the soil and grieve for Margaret, I know exactly how therapeutic gardening can be."

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Record Number of Suppliers and Garden Centres Spread a little Floral Cheer on #FloralFriday

May Day saw a record number of leading garden centres and suppliers get involved in #FloralFriday, a Greenfingers Charity initiative to help keep the charity and the horticultural industry in the hearts and minds of garden lovers across the country...

 

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James Stamp to the rescue
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If you are looking at adding extra facilities to keep your staff and customers safe when business are allowed to re-open, James Stamp Rental has the solution...

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Safe Trading Guidance for all garden centres published by HTA
 

The HTA have launched the HTA Safe Trading Guidance for all garden centres. This is to allow garden centres to prepare and implement when the Government gives the go-ahead for stores to reopen...

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GrowNation announce FREE ecommerce websites for Garden Centres with local delivery route optimisation

To make retailers’ local delivery operations more efficient and scalable, GrowNation is delighted to be launching a no upfront fee, fully-featured ecommerce website powered by Visualsoft. The partnership will allow garden centres to trade online quickly and efficiently.

 

All retailers who claim their free site before midnight on Sunday 3rd May will receive a free licence to a delivery route optimisation service, for as long as they use the GrowNation platform. This will allow centres to have their daily delivery routes calculated to take the least possible time...

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Tricia Cox co-founder of Glendoick Garden Centre dies

Tricia Cox (née Sherrard), founder/owner of Glendoick Garden Centre with her husband Peter Cox, died peacefully at Glendoick on 2nd May 2020...

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Reopening your retail store: Step one - signage & screening
 

Advice from Cleaner Retail – a new one-stop-shop designed to assist in creating a sanitised environment for safer shopping and a clean retail experience for the consumer...

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spoga+gafa looking ahead positively to exhibition dates in September 2020

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spoga + gafa's Director, Stephan Lohberg and the Vice President Trade Fair Management for Koelnmesse GmbH, Catja Caspary have issued a message about spoga+gafa for 2020 stating their intention to return to a new normality and that the event will be staged in Cologne from 6 to 8 September...

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It's not too late to colour the UK
 

There is still time to create retail colour, says Ball Colegrave...

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