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Retail Lab @ Glee: Interview with WGSN’s Lisa White
As Head and Creative Director of WGSN Lifestyle & Interiors, Lisa White and her team run the only B2B trend forecasting website focused on interiors and product design. Lisa was part of the team Retail Lab, a must-see part of Glee 2017. Here we talk to her about trends and how they can influence the decision of the consumer...
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Dobbies Christmas Revealed in Botanic Garden
Love, Peace, Joy and Hope are themes that run through Dobbies Christmas range which was revealed to managers from Scotland and the North of England at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh event last week...
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Blake Morgan advises on Bloomin Marvellous deal for plant and flower growing group
Blake Morgan's Corporate team has advised Butters Group Limited, one of the UK’s biggest growers and suppliers of plants and flowers, on its sale to Flamingo Horticulture. The Butters Group, headquartered in Spalding, Lincolnshire, turns over £52m a year and has more than 300 staff working across its flower, plant and nursery divisions.
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Castle Gardens flourishes at The Greatest Awards
Receiving recognition for going above and beyond to make a difference within the industry, Sherborne-based Castle Gardens has been presented with a Silver award in The Greatest Plant Retailing Team category at GTN’s Greatest Awards...
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PhaB Christmas Opening at Baytree
Christmas opened at Baytree Garden Centre on Thursday evening last week with a fundraising event for South Holland PhaB...
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Who will be The Greatest Garden Centre Teams of 2017?
Find out who the winners are of GTN's Greatest Garden Care Sales Team, Customer Service Team, Merchandising Team and the overall Greatest Garden Centre teams of 2017 after dinner at the HTA Garden Futures Conference on Wednesday next week...
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Nicholas Marshall joins HTA Garden Futures Conference 2017 line-up
Nicholas Marshall, CEO of Dobbies Garden Centres, has joined the line-up for the HTA Garden Futures Conference, sponsored by Hozelock, which takes place next week on Wednesday 4 October at Heythrop Park in Oxfordshire...
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Changing customer behaviour, demographics, technology and not losing touch with nature are lead presentations
Journalist and news presenter, Cathy Newman, will host the action-packed day which includes Rachel Lund from the British Retail Consortium, Josh McBain from the Foresight Factory, Jack Stratten from Insider Trends and Professor Alistair Griffiths from the RHS...
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Countryfile presenter to speak at Garden Futures
Tom Heap, who presents on Countryfile and is also the principal voice of ‘Costing the Earth’ on Radio 4 will be the after dinner speaker at Garden Futures next week...
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Cross-category merchandising, lifestyle trends and Xylella fastidiosa will be hot topics
 
James Wong will be looking at how garden centres can utilise cross-category merchandising to help illustrate the benefit of plants, Harald Elderenbosch, owner and managing director of Elho, explores how they use consumer and lifestyle trends to help shape their strategy, plus panel sessions looking at what the future holds for future retail environments and how the threat of Xylella fastidiosa can be mitigated by the industry...
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