In This Issue
Record Growing Media volumes continue to keep all garden centre sales at all time summer high
Pleydell Smithyman celebrate 25 years working with garden centres
READYBLAZE … Safer, Greener and Ready to Burn
Apta looks to strengthen merchandising team
Traeger – the original wood pellet grill
Global Journey Christmas Face Masks coming soon
The Greener Gardening Company works around the clock to meet exceptional demand for growing media 
August heads for all time record plant sales
Look on The Brightside with WIDDOP and Co.
LOFA and the Garden Centre Association grow together
Ball Colegrave reveals top varieties for 2021
Will commercial drivers drown out green recovery?
Children grow their own chips, thanks to Squire's
On The Road – The WIDDOP Roadshow
Glee New Product Awards entries start pouring in
Garland opens new warehouse as sales increase £1m so far this season
Never fear, Glee Daily News is here
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Pots and pot feet figure large in Bestsellers
Covid-19 incidents at Dobbies in Ayr and British Garden Centres at East Durham
August growing media up by 50% already
Feeding garden visitors of the wild variety
The best of last week's
Customers saddened by garden centre closure
Heavy rain dampens sales at garden centres
Cowell’s embraces back-to-school photo opportunity
Face masks from Global Journey are a garden centre bestseller
Introducing Glee Gathering, 15-16 Sept 2020
The UK’s £3.7 billion garden glow up
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to the GTN Bestsellers printed weekly newsletter
All the latest news from the world of pet products
Burston celebrates International Dog Day with owners and pets
Supreme capitalises on well-known names
Situations Vacant
Apta looks to strengthen merchandising team
Four Product Merchandiser vacancies
 

Apta, the leading supplier of quality flowerpots and accessories to the UK garden trade, is looking to strengthen its merchandising team with the recruitment of motivated and ambitious Product Merchandisers...

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GTN Bestsellers
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
 

Every week GTN receives and analyses epos data from a number of UK garden centres to produce the GTN Bestsellers charts...

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Record Growing Media volumes continue to keep all garden centre sales at all time summer high
GTN Bestsellers Epos data analysis

I know we keep on writing this, but where is all this growing media that is selling through garden centres being used?...  

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Pleydell Smithyman celebrate 25 years working with garden centres
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It is time to raise a glass to Specialist Garden Centre Consultancy Pleydell Smithyman. Paul Pleydell and his team are marking 25 years working in partnership with Garden Centres...

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READYBLAZE … Safer, Greener and Ready to Burn
GTN Xtra Promotion
 

Winter fuel experts Dizmezs Ltd are launching READYBLAZE, a new firewood brand for the UK Garden Centre market. The brand marries superior performance with environmentally friendly features. Every piece of timber in their firewood products is kiln dried to under 20% moisture content level, leading to cleaner, hotter burning and less harmful emissions...

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Apta looks to strengthen merchandising team
Four Product Merchandiser vacancies
 

Apta, the leading supplier of quality flowerpots and accessories to the UK garden trade, is looking to strengthen its merchandising team with the recruitment of motivated and ambitious Product Merchandisers...

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Traeger – the original wood pellet grill
GTN Xtra Promotion

Grilling experts Traeger, have been revolutionising BBQ grilling and outdoor cooking for 30 years, using 100% natural hardwood fuel to infuse food with unparalleled flavourful smoke, making food taste absolutely delicious. Today, Traeger continue to lead and revolutionise the industry, as the world’s #1 selling wood-fired grill, perfected by decades of mastering the craft of wood-fired cooking...

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Global Journey Christmas Face Masks coming soon
GTN Xtra Promotion

On the back of the success of their trendy face masks Global Journey are thrilled to announce the launch of a new Christmas range...

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The Greener Gardening Company works around the clock to meet exceptional demand for growing media 

The Greener Gardening Company has experienced phenomenal growth as a result of unprecedented nationwide demand for compost – having successfully stepped-up production to satisfy demand from retailers who have been scrambling to secure stocks of quality growing media...

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August heads for all time record plant sales

August plant sales are currently 6% up on last year with a Bank Holiday weekend of sales still to be added into the GTN Bestsellers Epos data...

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Look on The Brightside with WIDDOP and Co.
 

Getting on trend with the innovative design-led gift & home supplier. Over 8000 products, including 700 brand new products across 14 trend setting key range launches for AW20. And there are more ways than ever to connect with the company in this crazy climate and browse their offering...

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LOFA and the Garden Centre Association grow together

LOFA and the GCA have joined together to offer an online e-learning training course to get the LOFA Assured message out to GCA Members and Garden Centre staff across the UK...

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All the latest news from the world of pet products

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Burston celebrates International Dog Day with owners and pets

Burston St Albans Garden Centre put pets and their owners in the spotlight when International Dog Day was celebrated this week...

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Supreme capitalises on well-known names

Supreme  Petfoods is capitalising on two of the biggest names in small pets retailing – Russel and Gerty. The company has launched Gerty Guinea Pig Tasty Nuggets under its Tiny Friends brand following the success of Russel Rabbit mono-component format, which has seen sales increase fourfold in the past year.

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Ball Colegrave reveals top varieties for 2021

Nemesia ‘Lady Lisa' was voted as the overall favourite Annual plant variety by visitors at Ball Colegrave's Summer Trials. Rudbeckia Sunbeckia Series was the overall favourite Perennial plant variety...

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Will commercial drivers drown out green recovery?

RECOUP’s latest report, Covid-19 Impact Report, highlights the importance of a green recovery for the UK, but there are questions around what this looks like and how can it be translated into tangible actions with sustainability at the heart of it...

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Children grow their own chips, thanks to Squire's

Every year, Squire’s Garden Centres give local schools the opportunity to grow their own potatoes, and once harvested, Squire’s Café Bar teams normally cook them up into chips for the children to enjoy...

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On The Road – The WIDDOP Roadshow

Between 28th September and October 6th WIDDOP are taking their new products on the road in a state-of-the-art mobile showroom...

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Glee New Product Awards entries start pouring in

Who will be the winners in the Glee New Product Awards, in association with GTN, for 2020? 

 

Despite Glee not taking place for real at the NEC the teams at Glee and Garden Trade News are pulling out all the stops with Gee Gathering "exhibitors" to create a virtual showcase of New Products for 2021...

 

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Garland opens new warehouse as sales increase £1m so far this season

The opening of a new purpose-built warehouse by Garland /Worth Gardening has proved to be timely as the company is experiencing unprecedented growth in sales for its extensive range of garden care products.  Already this season, the company has achieved an impressive increase in turnover of almost £1 million...

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Never fear, Glee Daily News is here

While we can't all meet up at the NEC in September, the team at GTN will still be bringing you the Glee Daily News to keep you in the Glee mood...

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