In This Issue
Bents, Fron Goch and Poppies Oban strike gold in GTN's Greatest Team of the Year Awards
Smart and Westland are voted Greatest Award winners
Christmas gets October trade off to a flying start
Premier announces sad loss of Halloween General Manager, Sean Looney
Apta plans to invest £3.5m to grow its business in Ashford
HTA Garden Futures challenges the industry to capitalise on opportunity by embracing change
Clematis champion Raymond Evison awarded Pearson Medal
SBM Life Science recruiting new talent
The future for garden machinery is cordless…
Santa's spectacular arrival at Squire's Garden Centres
In with the new for Grange Fencing
Plant nursery helps local charity after break in
Ben's Guinness Record bean is longest amid sabotage claim at Mr Fothergill's
Spook-tacular Halloween events at Wyevale Garden Centres
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Brand Manager
Sales representative, South East
Nursery Grower Technical Manager
Garden Centre General Manager
Garden Sundries Retail Manager (Northamptonshire)
Horticultural Quality Controller
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Garden Products down year on year despite high plant sales
Christmas product sales off to a flier
Bark and top soil sell in big numbers
Autumn colour drives plant sales up
Impressive roll-call of speakers lined up for GrowQuip
Thompson & Morgan appoints new National Sales Manager
Perennial CEO Richard Capewell to retire in Spring 2017
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GTN's Greatest Awards 2016
All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
HTA study tour to Matthew Algie Roastery & Showroom
Cotswold Fayre expands its Chilled Operation
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Bents, Fron Goch and Poppies Oban strike gold in GTN's Greatest Team of the Year Awards


The presentation of GTN's Greatest Garden Centre Team Awards took place at the HTA Garden Futures dinner on Wednesday evening and Garden Centre Team of the Year golds went to Bents (large centres), Fron Goch (mid-sized) and Poppies of Oban (small)...
GTN's Greatest Garden Centre Team results
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Smart and Westland are voted Greatest Award winners


Smart Garden Products were voted The Greatest Garden Products Supplier of the year by garden centres during our visits this summer...
GTN's Greatest Supplier and Training results
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Christmas gets October trade off to a flying start


Sunny but colder weather combined with the extra attraction of fully opened Christmas displays led to a big leap in total sales volumes last week and got October off to a flying start, up 4% on last year...
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Premier announces sad loss of Halloween General Manager, Sean Looney
 

It is with great sadness that Premier has announced the loss of its much valued Halloween General Manager, Sean Looney, who passed away suddenly at the beginning of October...
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Apta plans to invest £3.5m to grow its business in Ashford
Ashford-based Vatre Terracotta Ltd, the company behind the Apta pottery brand, has announced plans to invest £3.5 million in a new warehouse, storage and distribution centre in the area...



Apta’s Paul Sykes (right) and Oakover’s Brian Fraser on site.
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HTA Garden Futures challenges the industry to capitalise on opportunity by embracing change
Brexit, the 2017 shopper, tomorrow’s garden centre, adapting to climate change, eLearning and the Energy Garden project were high on the agenda at the HTA Garden Futures Conference and Dinner, which took place at Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire on Wednesday...



Keynote speaker, PY Gerbeau, delivered a ‘recipe’ for succeeding and the four things you need in order to survive.
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Clematis champion Raymond Evison awarded Pearson Medal


Nurseryman, lecturer, author and photographer Raymond J Evison OBE VMH, was presented with the HTA Pearson Memorial Medal at the HTA Garden Futures Dinner...
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SBM Life Science recruiting new talent
 
Following the completion on 5 October of its acquisition of Bayer Garden, SBM Développement is beginning the initial phase of its investment into the new UK business by recruiting two new executives; a full-time sales representative for the South East and a new brand manager...
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The future for garden machinery is cordless…

The future for garden machinery is cordless, manufacturers predicted last week at an open day for retailers at Handy Distribution’s Swindon depot...



Above: the brands Handy represents demonstrate their wares outside the Swindon HQ.
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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HTA study tour to Matthew Algie Roastery & Showroom


HTA is arranging a tour of the Matthew Algie roastery and showroom in Glasgow on Wednesday 9 November...
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Cotswold Fayre expands its Chilled Operation
Fine food distributor, Cotswold Fayre, is expanding its chilled operations by doubling the range to 240 products from 35 fine food brands...
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Santa's spectacular arrival at Squire's Garden Centres

Santa will be arriving in style at Squire’s Garden Centres at the end of November! He will be arriving in a Vintage Rolls Royce, a Horse and Carriage, a Routemaster Bus, a Shelby Cobra Sports Car and even in a Fire Engine...

Santa arriving on a horse and carriage at Squire’s Shepperton last year.
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In with the new for Grange Fencing
 
Leading the way in the latest trends and product innovation, Grange Fencing has launched a number of new fence panels and garden gates...
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Plant nursery helps local charity after break in


Horsfields Plant Nursery in Silkstone (the next door village to Greenworks) has offered to sell all Greenworks home grown ‘ghost white’ pumpkins for the charity and all proceeds raised will be given direct to them...
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Ben's Guinness Record bean is longest amid sabotage claim at Mr Fothergill's
 
What began as a light-hearted staff competition to grow the longest runner bean at a Suffolk seed company, eventually won by Ben Roden with a pod measuring 47.2cm, took a nasty turn when pods with winning potential were mysteriously taken, snapped in half and discovered in a nearby bramble thicket...
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Spook-tacular Halloween events at Wyevale Garden Centres


To bring all things supernatural to life this Halloween, Wyevale Garden Centres will be inviting children to get crafty during October half-term with a series of spook-tacular special events...
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