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Grow your card sales the easy way ...
GTN Xtra Promotion
Award-winning Fron Goch and Haskins garden centres choose Woodmansterne as their greeting card category management partners...
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Garland continues its new product launch policy by adding 54 items for next season
GTN Xtra Promotion
New product development has been the key to the success of Garland/Worth Gardening with many new product ideas being driven by feedback and input from customers. Already this year the company has achieved growth of around £1miillion, and the launch of 54 new products for the 2021 season will help to consolidate future growth for the company and its customers...
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Campingaz® New Gas Barbecue Collection
GTN Xtra Promotion
New for 2021, the Campingaz® launches the Select, Premium and Onyx ranges of 3 and 4 burner barbecues offering fresh styling, innovative new technologies and unique features to enhance the consumer’s barbecuing experience...
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Smart Garden donates £50,000 to Greenfingers Charity
Leading garden product supplier Smart Garden has presented the Greenfingers Charity with a cheque for £50,000...
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Are you ready for Glee Gathering? Just one day to go!
The much-anticipated Glee Gathering event – a unique two-day digital experience designed to inspire whilst engaging buyers and connecting our community together – will open for business tomorrow (Tuesday). Make sure you register for this unique event...
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Garden centre wins national family business award
Enderby-based Palmers Garden Centre have been named as winners at the annual celebration of the Family Business Awards hosted by Family Business United...
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Perrywood plan for major re-development at Sudbury
Award winning Perrywood Garden Centres are planning a major re-development of their Sudbury site which they purchased from Wyevale two years ago...
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Woodlodge expands flagship Heritage Garden range for 2021
GTN Xtra Promotion
Woodlodge’s flagship Heritage Garden Pottery range is to be extended for 2021 with the addition of striking new lines and limited-edition designs – featuring novel materials and unique finishes that elevate the iconic collection’s sales appeal.
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Indian Summer gets sales back to the ‘new normal’
GTN Bestsellers Epos data analysis
The sunshine and warmer weather of last week has seen garden centre sales jump back above the ‘new normal’ level of significantly up year on year. Last week’s sales volumes were 32% up on last year, eight percentage points ahead of the average weekly increase since garden centres re-opened.
Who will be the winners of the Glee New Product Awards 2020, in association with GTN? Tune into the Glee Gathering; www.gleebirmingham.com and see the Glee Daily News every day next week.
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Plant sales set new ‘Autumn’ record
The first week of September saw plant sales volumes in the GTN Bestsellers Epos data soar to a new record for any ‘Autumn’ plant sales week, beating the previous high by over 20%...
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The Greener Gardening Company unveils its 2021 multibuy offering to help retailers drive volume sales
With the growing media category confirmed as one of this year’s star performers, The Greener Gardening Company has unveiled its new multibuy offering for 2021 – tailored to helping retailers leverage the potential of volume-driven promotions...
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Warm welcome from Zest 4 Leisure to Virtual Glee Gathering
Outdoor furniture and decorative garden structures expert Zest 4 Leisure is welcoming customers old and new to the Glee Gathering with a fabulous selection of new products; backed by its well-established home delivery service and extensive marketing package. The whole Zest team will be online for appointments to take customers through all the news for the 2021 season...
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Yorkshire nursery invests £1m in new gardencentre
Ravensworth Nurseries at Richmond, North Yorkshire, is to develop an upmarket garden centre on its 36-acre site at an initial cost of £1 million...
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All the latest news from the world of pet products
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Heavyweight multimedia campaign takes Peckish bird brand to new heights
Westland is making its biggest ever media investment into the Peckish bird care brand for Autumn / Winter 2020, as it soars onto the airwaves with a TV campaign that celebrates the joy of inviting birds into the garden...
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Bespoke trade show room built on site at Wildlife World
Wildlife World has created a new show room at its site in Chavenage, near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, to allow trade customers to see its full range of products in a safe setting.
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New food hall opens at Squire’s in Wokingham
Squire’s Garden Centre on Heathlands Road in Wokingham has expanded its current food selection by opening an exciting new food hall...
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Dobbies launches Christmas events programme
Social distancing and safety at forefront of 2020 Christmas calendar
With the festive season in sight, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, Dobbies Garden Centres, has announced its Christmas events offering for 2020. This year’s programme is packed full of seasonal fun for the whole family, with a focus on bringing together communities, and with social distancing measures in place...
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Recoup collaborates to lead way in UK recycling certification
Plastics recycling charity RECOUP has announced that RecyClassUK is to be the UK’s auditors for recyclability certification of rigid plastic packaging in the UK...
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World’s largest garden wildlife survey to return in January 2021
Hundreds of thousands of people across the UK will celebrate their love of nature and unite to watch and count the nation’s garden birds over the last weekend in January for the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch...
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DJ Turfcare’s new Autumn Lawn Treatment back in stock
Thanks to DJ Turfcare’s close co-operation with its manufacturing partners, Viano, the company has announced its fast-selling all-new Autumn Lawn Treatment is now back in stock and ready for delivery to UK garden centres...
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Tension mounts for Glee New Product Awards 2020
Who will be the winners in the Glee New Product Awards, in association with GTN, for 2020? Despite Glee not taking place for real at the NEC the teams at Glee and Garden Trade News are pulling out all the stops with Gee Gathering "exhibitors" to create a virtual showcase of New Products for 2021...
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Dobbies opens award-winning butcher in Edinburgh store
Dobbies Garden Centres has opened a Walter Smith Fine Foods butchery to its flagship Edinburgh store...
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Never fear, Glee Daily News is here
While we can't all meet up at the NEC in September, the team at GTN will still be bringing you the Glee Daily News to keep you in the Glee mood...
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Steve Harper leaves the Greener Gardening Company
As part of a company re-organisation, Steve Harper's role as Sales and Marketing Director has been made redundant and he has left The Greener Gardening Company...
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Current registration status confirms the new exhibition dates of spoga+gafa
The long-term rescheduling of the exhibition dates of spoga+gafa to June, including the one-time date at the end of May to the beginning of June in 2021, is already a total success...
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Positive shift of gardening activity
September growing media sales have started off at levels higher than normally seen in June, let alone September. This really is a shift of gardening activity.
Growing media sales for the week were 77% higher than last year, matching the average weekly change since garden centres re-opened...
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Houseplant sales bloom in July
Sales of houseplants at garden centres across the country bloomed in July, according to the Garden Centre Association’s Barometer of Trade report. Compared with the same month in 2019, sales were up 81.82%...
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Millions of new British gardeners take root as a result of lockdown says HTA survey
Britain’s love affair with gardens was confirmed this week as new research conducted by the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) found that almost three million gardeners sprung up this year as a result of lockdown. A new younger face of gardening has also been identified with nearly half (49%) of the new green fingered fans aged under 45...
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September gardening starts with a boom
With better weather September garden product sales have got off to a flyer, up by 20% week on week and almost 10% higher than all other first weeks of September as recorded by GTN Bestsellers...
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Ivyline launches new online portal for retail customers
Ivyline, the UK’s leading supplier of inspired collections for the garden and home, including indoor and outdoor pots, terrariums, firepits and water features, has made it even easier for its retail customers to access its bestselling ranges with the launch of a new online portal...
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BOPP changes its name to OHAS
The HTA has announced that it is changing the name of its British Ornamental Plant Producers’ (BOPP) Certification Scheme to the Ornamental Horticulture Assurance Scheme (OHAS)...
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Veg keeps growing
After two wetter and colder weeks the sunshine has got people back into the mood for buying veg plants and seeds to keep their veg gardens growing. Sales volumes in the GTN Bestsellers Epos data have jumped back to the ‘new normal’ levels, up by over 40% on the same week last year...
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Premium Christmas Trees’ trial pallets help to boost sales
Premium Christmas Trees is offering retailers the chance to ‘test’ new product introductions with its innovative trial pallets...
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Gardenex supports Government ‘bounce-back’ plan
Gardenex has welcomed a series of new Government measures to help boost exports as UK businesses recover from the Coronavirus pandemic. The measures announced on Tuesday (8th September) will offer immediate support to companies by ensuring specialists provide advice on online retail and international market-places.
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
British Garden Centres make it 58 with acquisition of Thatcham
British Garden Centres (BGC) announced today that they have acquired the ex-Wyevale centre at Thatcham, taking the group to 58 centres...
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How lucky we are!
Comment from GTN's September issue, out this week
A common strand of conversations across the industry during August has been “How lucky we are to be working in the garden retailing industry!” And indeed, we have all been in the fortunate position of seeing sales run at record summer levels and catch up on the deficit caused by the lock-down closures of March, April and early May...
Read the September 2020 edition of GTN On-line here
Garden centre and nursery faces uncertain future
A garden centre and nursery in Ipswich is facing an uncertain future after plans to build a 76-bed three storey care home on its site were revealed...
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New style of gardening just keeps on growing
The GTN Bestsellers All Products Sales Index shows August garden centre volumes to be a massive 20% up on last year and even higher than May sales were in 2019...
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Garden centre urges public to name and shame fly-tipper
The owner of a Norfolk garden centre has urged the public to ‘name and shame’ a fly-tipper who dumped bags of insulation material on his land...
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It could take a decade for British nurseries to recover from Covid-19 lockdown
A leading British nursery has revealed it could take the UK growing industry at least 10 years to recover the financial losses incurred when garden centres were forced to close during the Covid-19 lockdown. But “If the public supports the industry by continuing to invest in their gardens and buy British at the same time, then UK nurseries do stand a chance," says Natalie Porter of Porters Fuchsias/Happy Plants...
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Glee New Product Awards 2019 - The Winners
Ground-breaking new garden products were confirmed as the winners of the coveted Glee New Product Awards 2019, run in association with GTN...
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Garden Centre Photo Tours
If you've missed one of our popular photo tours of garden centres then click on the links below:
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
Haskins Garden Centre in Snowhill, Crawley, has opened its doors to customers following a 12-month refurbishment costing £15m...
Read more and see GTN Xtras photo tour of the new centre
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