In This Issue
Garden centre customers get the 'Love Spring' message
STV first to market with newly approved bait formations for control of mice and rats
Fundraising for Greenfingers exceeds £500,000 in 2017
Orchid drip feeder frenzy hits garden centres
Plant sales rocket ahead
SBM Life Science pre-season sales up by 46% year on year
Bionema launch specialist training courses to boost Biopesticide efficacy
Saddle up for the Garden Re-Leaf Cycle Ride Challenge
Squire's plant show heralds start of gardening season
Highfield Garden World expands its planteria team
Tong Garden Centre raises over £20,000 for local charities
Channa sales ban on hold after an OATA challenge
Haskins Roundstone donates bird boxes to school
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Local residents ‘sad’ at proposed closure of Reigate Garden Centre
Red Baron onion sets back on top
Seed sowing gets sales growing
Wild Bird Care sales dominated by Gardman
Malcolm Scott Consultants strengthens team
TV gardener David Domoney to partner with Everest again in 2018
Looking for Christmas Ideas for 2018?
The best of last week's
Kelkay bought by US company for $56million
All hands to the pump at Gardman as backlog gets cleared
QD Group acquires The Barn Garden Centre in Peterborough
Squire's eyes investment opportunties after parting with Windsor centre
Major garden centre projects near completion
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Whitco CEO Jeff Whitaker passes away after short illness
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Garden centre customers get the 'Love Spring' message

We are loving early spring sales according to EPOS data analysis by GTN Bestsellers. Six weeks into the year, total sales volumes are running at almost 11% up on last year and plant sales are racing ahead at 43%...

 

The covered planteria at GCA award-winning Bents Garden & Home are looking really attractive at the moment and GTN Bestsellers reports big plant sales increases across the country...

 

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STV first to market with newly approved bait formations for control of mice and rats
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Home & garden pest control specialist STV is believed to be first to market with newly approved bait formulations for control of mice and rats, its in-house production teams working double shifts since the New Year to ensure independent and national retailers are fully stocked just in time for peak-season...

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Fundraising for Greenfingers exceeds £500,000 in 2017

For the first time in its 18-year history, Greenfingers Charity has announced that FUNdraising for building magical gardens in children’s hospices exceeded half a million pounds in 2017.

 

 

Colin Wetherley-Mein and Warren Haskins have been appointed Trustees of the Greenfingers Charity.

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Orchid drip feeder frenzy hits garden centres
 

A new orchid drip feeder has joined the battle for the No 1 overall bestseller in the GTN Garden Products Charts. Growth Technology, regulars in the chart with Orchid Myst, have launched their own Orchid Drip Feeders and initial sales see them enter the chart at No 17...

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Plant sales rocket ahead

After six weeks of 2018 the GTN All Plants Sales Index is running at 42.5% up on last year! 

 

 

Earlier sales of planted Hyacinths, Narcissus and Tulips are big contributors to the overall increase.

 

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SBM Life Science pre-season sales up by 46% year on year
 

SBM Life Science’s new strategy – New Time, New Way – is proving successful as the company celebrates a year-on-year increase in pre-season sales of 46%...

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Bionema launch specialist training courses to boost Biopesticide efficacy

 

Bionema have developed a selection of specialist training programmes to help maximise the potential of this biologically benign way to protect and enhance your crops, plants and amenity areas...

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Saddle up for the Garden Re-Leaf Cycle Ride Challenge
 

Greenfingers Charity is inviting its supporters to put their pedal power to the test this spring by taking on an inspiring new Cycle Challenge for Garden Re-Leaf Day...

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Whitco CEO Jeff Whitaker passes away after short illness

Whitco, the catering and bakery equipment company, has announced that its CEO Jeff Whitaker has died after a short illness...

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Squire's plant show heralds start of gardening season

Squire’s Garden Centres held their annual plant show at Squire’s in West Horsley. Thirty two suppliers from across the UK and abroad came to showcase their latest plants...

 

 

Barnsfold won ‘Best Bedding Plant Supplier’ (above) for an impressive third year in a row.

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Highfield Garden World expands its planteria team
 

Highfield Garden World in Gloucestershire has expanded its planteria team with two experienced new recruits, bringing the team total to 14. Ian Byrne joined in June as Deputy Planteria Manager, while Scott Ellis took up his role soon afterwards...

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Tong Garden Centre raises over £20,000 for local charities

 

A Shipley-based charity that helps people recovering from mental health problems to get back into work is among local charities that have gained from the generosity of Tong's Garden Centre's customers and staff.

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Channa sales ban on hold after an OATA challenge
 

Plans to ban the sale of Channa and three aquatic plant species across the whole of the UK have had a reprieve following a challenge by OATA to the EU...

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Haskins Roundstone donates bird boxes to school

 

Haskins Garden Centre in Roundstone has partnered with Angmering School to promote awareness of National Nest Box Week...

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