In This Issue
Which garden centre will be sold next...and will Wyevale buy Dobbies...?
Dutch Retail Experience is a real source for inspiration and ideas
Dobbies aims to raise £50,000 for charity during 150th anniversary year
Alyson Haywood leaves Wyevale to set up consultancy business
Growing media sales give January figures a boost
Bayer Garden takes to the road to help retailers drive up sales
UK stocks of world’s largest tomato sell out in 36 hours
James Wong becomes the 'face' of Fiskars
Cold weather boosts sales of polar bears
Norfolk Leisure full of Christmas spirit...and it's now February!
Darlac set to launch 'most innovative product to date'
Stewart Garden assures quality with British manufactured electric propagators
Mr Fothergill's honoured for sales of poppy seeds
Gardening celebs get ready for 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz
Crest Garden supports Greenfingers
Eden Halls launch greenhouse range with 'no trip' zero threshold
Centre Manager - Redfields Garden Centre, Fleet
Centre Manager - Jersey
Garden Centre Manager - East Midlands
Key Accounts Manager - Thetford, Norfolk
Plant Area Assistant - Essex
Plant Area Supervisor - London
Adventurer James Ketchell to talk pushing limits at APL Awards ceremony
Driving ban overturned for garden centre owner
2014 ends with strong Christmas season for garden centres
Vegetable seed packet sales rocket
Writtle College postgraduate wins prestigious garden design student award
Keen gardeners get ready to grow
Giant snowdrop discovered in the Cotswolds
Garden RELEAF goes "down under"
Yankee Candle revolutionises flameless fragrance with new Scenterpiece range
CRoP Clinics to help HTA members save money
Empty shops inevitable if retailers don't adapt
British Flowers Week 2015 dates announced
British Ornamental Plant Producers launch new version of the Grower Standard
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Dutch Retail Experience is a real source for inspiration and ideas
If you are looking for really inspirational ideas for displays and garden centre layout then the Tuinzaken (the Dutch equivalent of GTN) Retail Experience well worth a visit in the future.

GTN Xtra visited the 2015 event, held in the Exhibition Area of the Boskoop International Trade Plant Sales Centre, last week.  We came back with so much material it will take several issues of GTN Xtra and the GTN Magazine to pass it on so watch out for more stories over the coming weeks.

Key to the Experience was that there were NO trade stand booths.  "Our Fair is in the layout of a garden centre, a layout that challenges existing thinking and provides solutions for consumers rather than a layout by categories." Tuinzaken owner Tjeerd Posthumus explained. 

Below is a gallery of a few pictures to give you a flavour.  More pictures - including an expert guided tour and stories about new products featured at the fair will be included in the next few issues of GTN Xtra.
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