During three days at the NEC for SOLEX GTN Xtra collected the views on the market and SOLEX 2015 from a number of garden centres including Haskins, Squires, Chessington, Bosworths, Monkton Elm’ Caulders and Fresh@Burcot...
Whitehall Garden Centre at Lacock is consulting the local community about plans that would see the centre triple in size and create 150 new jobs in a bid to become a regional tourist attraction.
Above: Peter Self (right) and his buying team at SOLEX this week.
SOLEX has been a record-breaking success with record numbers of exhibitors and visitors attending the three-day outdoor leisure trade exhibition at the NEC this week...
Members of the Garden Centre Association will find out how they have fared in this year’s annual inspections at regional award meetings taking place across the country this month. The meetings will take place on July 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24...
Following the chancellor’s budget statement, the HTA said they were delighted to hear that that there were moves afoot to relax the Sunday Trading Laws to allow all retail businesses, including garden centres, to trade on a level playing field...
It has been a busy week at SOLEX in Hall 5 of the NEC as outdoor living buyers take stock of new ranges and new products to order for next year after a record-breaking year for furniture and barbecue sales...
GCA inspector Liz Hutson is standing down from her role this year – with her final official engagement for the industry body at its annual conference next year...
The UK domestic garden products market, currently valued at around £5bn, grew by an estimated 8% in 2014 and is expected to grow steadily over the next four years, according to a new report from AMA Research...
Five gold winners of The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales Awards will have the added prize of receiving their prizes at this year's spoga+gafa exhibition in Cologne, Germany. One person from each of the five winners will be treated to travel to and from Cologne plus one night's accommodation as The Greatest Awards really celebrate going on tour this year.
Poplars, Groves and Barton Grange have all won Gold in The Greatest Awards. Which garden centres will be leaving the HTA Futures Conference with Gold this year?
Johnsons Seeds, one of the UK's longest established and best known brands with a history dating to 1820, has re-launched its retail seed range for the 2016 season...
Squires Garden Centres, Briers, Kinder Plants, Garland and Bramblecrest were among the exhibitors who tasted success at an extremely busy RHS Hampton Court Flower Show last week...
Greenfingers are calling in any remaining monies raised from Garden Re-Leaf Day earlier this year so the final tally can be calculated and The Greatest Awards expert judges have now decided who should be The Greatest Garden Re-Leaf Day Fundraising Retail team...
Scotts Levington Tomorite is back at No 1 in the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart from the first time since May while garden lights dominate volume sales and watering gets going...
As the heat of the Veg-2-Gro market dissipates, young bean plants take over at the top of the GTN Bestsellers chart with winter green plants starting to sell through in volumes...
New growing activity starting to wane as the summer progresses. Expect to see growth in mulches etc over the coming weeks as people look to preserve moisture and get the best from their plants. Is your bark promotion in the best spot to make the most of the opportunity?
GCA inspector Liz Hutson is standing down from her role this year – with her final official engagement for the industry body at its annual conference next year...
