Wyevale Garden Centres announced today it has acquired Crowders Garden Centre, based in Horncastle, Lincolnshire. Following the acquisition, WGC’s estate will consist of 153 centres across England and Wales...
The acquisition by WGC represents only 25% of the Crowder business, and the family now intends to develop their nationally important wholesale nursery division...
Due to huge interest in their new range of Wild Bird Care, Petface are expanding their sales team and have appointed Lolly Lee as their Business Development Director looking after their Garden Centre channel. Lolly joins the company after working for Gardman.
Barton Grange Garden Centre near Preston have notched up their fifth consecutive Destination Garden Centre of the Year award in the Garden Centre Association’s annual inspection audits...
Garden Wise of Dumfries took their first Garden Centre of the Year title as the top-scoring centre in the lower turnover band in the GCA's inspection audits...
Writer and broadcaster David Domoney made a passionate appeal to garden centres to appoint ambassadors to promote community gardening through his Cultivation Street initiative, now in its fourth year...
Here's a great way to raise £'s for Greenfingers and get your self into shape for the rest of the year by loosing weight between now and Garden Re-Leaf Day. Join GTN Xtra's Trevor Pfeiffer and Greenfingers Linda Petrons and Debs Skillicorn in Pounds 4 Greenfingers...
The GCA Pansies (retailers) beat the GCA Cabbages (suppliers) with a golden Zubaball goal during extra time played in Brighton for the 6th Annual Greenfingers Challenge Cup...
Winter weather arrives at last and we see the first sales of sledges and rock salt in the EPoS data provided by garden centres for GTN Bestsellers. There are also notable increases in sales of Frostgard, logs and fuels for fires.
It’s year two of the HTA/GIMB Love the Plot You’ve Got campaign. Building on the success of 2015 – here’s a one-day Masterclass to demonstrate how to sell to non-gardeners – as well as gardeners.
GTN’s analyst Trevor Pfeiffer (MD of The Garden Communication & Media Company) believes December increases in seed and bulb sales posted by GCA members were the result of increased footfall as a result of Christmas visits and the ‘extra’ week-end garden centres had in December...
Following our visit to the Tuinzaken Garden Retail Experience event last year the Horticultural Trades Association has arranged an inspirational Study Tour to the Netherlands in February 2016 to take in the 2016 event and there is still some limited availability for for you to join us on the trip...
After the resounding success of The Greatest Awards ON TOUR in 2015, we are pleased to announce that in 2016 The Greatest Awards ON TOUR will be bigger and better than ever...
"Rising stars is quite nerve wracking but at the end of it you feel very motivated. It is a fantastic course to go on." That's the verdict of Barton Granges' second finalist Kath Bailey...
While Growing Media and Veg-2-Gro volume sales grew week on week and against last year, GTN’s Garden Products Top 50 chart volume sales dropped by 25% vs the same week last year...
Growing Media sales have got off to a flying Early-bird start this year. GTN Bestsellers Growing Media chart Top 50 sales volumes are over 50% up on the first two weeks of last year....
Pictures from The Greatest Christmas Gold-winning Teams
Garden centre teams excelled with their Christmas displays in 2015. Below we reveal galleries from the gold-winning teams. The galleries are sponsored by Kaemingk...
The Greatest Christmas Display award was strongly contested again this year with four garden centres picking up main awards – Silverbirch (small garden centre), The Old Railway Line (mid-sized), Barton Grange (large) and Le Friquet Plant Centre (group)...
Chris Ramsden is moving from Suttons to be National Accounts Manager at Hozelock...
Consumer and shopper behviouralist Ken Hughes warned the garden industry yesterday not to ignore the digital revolution...
