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The UK and international gardening and pet industries have been paying tribute to Theresa Swann, Head of Events at Gardenex and PetQuip, who sadly passed away in December...

Garden products saw their first upturn in volume sales since 2014 during last year, with the GTN Bestsellers Top 50 chart volume increasing by 8.1% on 2018 levels...

Infinity Christmas Trees are pleased to announce the recent addition of Chris Schofield to the company in the position of Senior Account Manager.

The volume of the Top 50 plant genera and groupings for the whole of 2019 dropped by 3% on 2018. So, after the tipsy turvy year of 2018 a year that was more “normal” weather wise resulted in fewer plant sales...

Core gardening growing activity, as measured by the volume of growing media products sold in the GTN Bestsellers chart reached an all time high. 2019 ended 6.2% up on the previous record set in 2018...

2019 was a great year for Veg-2-Gro sales, almost getting back up to the heady heights of 2015. Up to the end of September (when we stop producing a Top 50 chart) 2019 sales were up by 39% on last year...

Wyevale Garden Centres’ head office move from Syon Park to nearby Brentford has been completed as the winding-up process progresses...

Dobbies has re-affirmed its commitment to becoming peat-free over the next year...

After the turmoil of the Gardman fire at the start of 2018, Wild Bird Care sales recovered slightly in 2019 to be 5.6% up on 2018 but were still running at 14.5% down on 2017 levels at the end of the year...

2019 was a strong year of growth for garden centres nationally, with November sales up 10% compared with the same month in 2018 according to the latest HTA Market Update report...

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Garden Centre volume sales grew by 4.2% year on year in 2019 according to the full year analysis of the GTN Bestsellers Volume sales data...

Happy new year to all our customers from all of the team at Gardman Crest who are ready to deliver growth to your business in 2020...

As from the 1^st January 2020 Sarah Willis has been promoted to General Manager of Thurrock Garden Centre...

Richard Pyrah has more than 30 years in the garden market, but he believes this pre-season has been the best he’s ever experienced. AMES UK are reporting an uplift on 2018 of over 46% on a like for like basis across Kelkay, Woodshaw and La Hacienda...

Wentworth Garden Centre have been praising Corby & Fellas’ WinRetail system with Rob Monk saying: "We were blown away by not only how easy the system was to use, but by the amount of data and information it could provide"

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