The magic of Christmas sprinkled over the garden centre industry this week as The Greatest Christmas Awards for 2014 were presented on Sunday evening at the Majestic Hotel, Harrogate.
The Stewart Group of companies is in good shape and progressing well with all of its plans for 2015, says former sales director Nigel Thompson, who now works for the company on a freelance consultancy basis...
After visiting 130 garden centres this Christmas season for The Greatest Christmas Awards, the judges decided to do something different to help raise money for Make-A-Wish. Each of them offered a day’s consultancy to a garden centre or supplier in return for a sizeable donation to Make-A-Wish. A total of nearly £4,000 has already been donated...
Teams representing the Garden Centre Association and their supplier associate members will once again battle it out for charity on the eve of the GCA conference in Chester...
Award-winning Supa Ltd, which has supplied the pet and aquatic industry for the past 65 years, is now looking to extend its retail base into garden centres. The company's innovative range of products covers water gardening, fishkeeping, poultry, wild bird care and small animal, and Supa believes it would give garden centres a point of difference.
William Sinclair Horticulture has signed a national distribution agreement with the leading garden wholesaler, Decco, covering the company's full suite of brands: J. Arthur Bower's, Growing Success, New Horizon and Deadfast...
The HTA will be holding Cost Reduction Programme (CRoP) Clinics at the end of February, where HTA members can meet CRoP partners and learn how to reduce costs to their business. Garden Radio is one of the partners taking part in the clinics...
Stewart Garden is preparing to issue its gardening kits, following the launch of the Stewart Garden Schools campaign 2015. Participating schools across the UK will receive the kits, which will equip them to start growing their own fruit and vegetables...
Following developments in the garden sector earlier in 2014, Stax Trade Centres who have over 30 years of experience and expertise selling garden products, look back on a year which saw them significantly scale up their garden operations, culminating in them now carrying their largest ever range in their biggest ever catalogue...
Any of Britain's schools which would like the chance to win £250 by growing sweet peas this summer for Mr Fothergill's national competition are being given an added incentive by the Suffolk seedsman with the offer of free seed...
After eight months of hard graft, the five finalists in the Garden Centre Association’s Rising Stars programme, sponsored by Westland, are preparing to face their ultimate challenge...
It was another year of momentous change for the garden centre industry - and, predictably, it was the troubles of the former Solus business and the latest re-shaping of the Wyevale Garden Centres group that topped the list of GTN Xtra's best-read stories...
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Solus Garden & Leisure goes into administration - Issue 28 2014 - Breaking News
Horticultural celebrities from TV and radio are busy recording questions for the 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day Quiz at the moment, and garden centres who sign up to take part in what is set to be the biggest and best quiz yet can take advantage of the ‘early bird’ entry fee of just £50 - if they sign up before 1st January 2015...
The Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Barometer of Trade (BoT) results for December reveal that sales of clothing were up 13.99% during the month compared with 2013. Will Armitage, Chairman of the GCA, explained: “As the weather becomes colder it’s no surprise to see people buying more clothing during their garden centre visits."
The top two places in this week’s Growing Media chart are filled by Westland Jack’s Magic All Purpose Compost and Arthur Bowers Multipurpose Compost...
Gloves specialist Globus is to launch its fully biodegradable multi-purpose glove to the media at this year’s Garden Press Event at The Barbican on 12 February...
British suppliers and overseas buyers of garden, leisure and petcare products who took part in the recent ‘International Meet the Buyers’ event organised by the Gardenex and Pet Quip associations have applauded the business-generating quality of the meetings...
The judges have met and the shortlist has been revealed so now it's time for landscapers to book their places at the highlight of the Association of Professional Landscapers year: the 2015 APL Awards, sponsored by Bradstone. The event is being held on Friday 13 March at The Brewery, London...
After visiting 130 garden centres this Christmas season for The Greatest Christmas Awards, the judges decided to do something different to help raise money for Make-A-Wish. Each of them offered a day’s consultancy to a garden centre or supplier in return for a sizeable donation to Make-A-Wish. A total of nearly £4,000 has already been donated...
Horticultural celebrities from TV and radio are busy recording questions for the 2015 Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day Quiz at the moment, and garden centres who sign up to take part in what is set to be the biggest and best quiz yet can take advantage of the ‘early bird’ entry fee of just £50 - if they sign up before 1st January 2015...
