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If you're set for Christmas now is the time to get planning for next year
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Driving Tangible Returns on Investment with PR and Social Media
Developing a successful marketing campaign in your local community
Maximising the marketing benefits of EPoS
Catering for the modern customer
Life’s a Beach!
The Ups and Downs of Play time!
How intelligent doordrops can help your business grow
Digital Marketing – key issues on the digital agenda
Eighteen marketing presentations in one day
5 days to go until HTA Marketing Forum
Nominate your teams for GTN’s The Greatest Christmas Awards
Vote for your Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year
Book your tickets for GTN’s Greatest Christmas Party
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Life’s a Beach!



Neil Grant from Ferndale Garden Centre, talks about some of the ways in which they are reaching out to new customers and keep existing customers, especially younger families, coming back. This is includes their summer beach project and also the National Children’s’ Gardening Week initiative. 

Neil Grant is Managing Director of Ferndale Garden Centre just south of Sheffield. Neil has been with Ferndale for 33 years, since his wife’s family bought a run-down existing garden centre business.  Neil met Linda, his wife, at Writtle Agricultural College, near Chelmsford while studying HND commercial Horticulture.  Having both passed with Distinction they started to develop the family nursery in south Sheffield before moving the whole family to Coal Aston to form Ferndale Nursery and Garden Centre in July 1982.  Neil is passionate about our industry and has previously been Midland area rep for the GCA and then an elected Director sitting on the national executive for 6 years.  Neil became HTA representative for Yorkshire in 2012.  Neil is also ‘garden expert’ for BBC Radio Sheffield every Sunday morning. 

If you want great ideas on how to attract younger families to your centre next year, and keep them coming back, book your place at The HTA Marketing Forum now.  GTN Xtra readers can take advantage of a special Buy One get One Free offer at: www.the-hta.org.uk/marketingforum using the code GTNXtra.

Neil Grant from Ferndale Garden Centre, talks about some of the ways in which they are reaching out to new customers and keep existing customers, especially younger families, coming back. This is includes their summer beach project and also the National Children’s’ Gardening Week initiative.

 

Neil Grant is Managing Director of Ferndale Garden Centre just south of Sheffield. Neil has

been with Ferndale for 33 years, since his wife’s family bought a run-down existing garden

centre business.  Neil met Linda, his wife, at Writtle Agricultural College, near Chelmsford while

studying HND commercial Horticulture.  Having both passed with Distinction they started to

develop the family nursery in south Sheffield before moving the whole family to Coal Aston to

form Ferndale Nursery and Garden Centre in July 1982.  Neil is passionate about our industry

and has previously been Midland area rep for the GCA and then an elected Director sitting on

the national executive for 6 years.  Neil became HTA representative for Yorkshire in 2012.  Neil is

also ‘garden expert’ for BBC Radio Sheffield every Sunday morning.

 

If you want great ideas on how to attract younger families to your centre next year, and keep them coming back, book your place at The HTA Marketing Forum now.  GTN Xtra readers can take advantage of a special Buy One get One Free offer at: www.the-hta.org.uk/marketingforum using the code GTNXtra.

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