GCA announces three new inspectors at conference
The Garden Centre Association has today (Monday) announced its three new inspectors who will begin visiting member garden centres this spring. Michael Cole, Gordon Emslie and Hedley Triggs will join current inspector, Roger Crookes, to complete the team for 2017.
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GCA Conference raises £27,440 for Greenfingers
The GCA Conference 2017 got off to a flying start with a record £27,440 being raised for Greenfingers in the annual GCA Greenfingers Challenge. Held at the Fairmont Hotel, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, the challenge included a round of indoor "golf", a supper with quiz and "Highland" games including haggis eating and ended with an auction compered by McTopping of Brock, Guy Topping...
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Pansies regain GCA Greenfingers Challenge Cup
The Pansies (garden centre's) beat The Cabbages (suppliers) in this years GCA Greenfingers Challenge held at the Fairmont Hotel in Scotland.
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Haggis sells for £500 a plate as the Greenfingers Challenge gets Conference off to a tasty start
The evening part of The GCA Greenfingers Challenge, organised by Guy and Carol Topping include quiz rounds .... mixed with fun games ..... where teams had to buy their places in the events - that's when a plate of haggis was bought for a £500 donation to Greenfingers...
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LOFA prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary with a new Chairman and Vice Chairman at the helm
Outback chief executive Mark Osborne has been appointed Chariman of LOFA, following the decision by Paul Bevington to step down for personal reasons. Pravin Patel, a director of Premier decorations has been made Vice-Chairman of the association...
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Light up your January sales with impulse displays
While centres start to get their garden products departments ready for the season customers are still buying garden lighting and houseplant feeders in relatively high volumes...
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Onion sets and seed potatoes selling through
Onion sets and seed potatoes have started selling through this week as displays are finished and stocks located in high footfall areas. Stuttgarter is once again the most popular onion for early starters with Pentland Javelin being the most picked up seed potato. Beetroot Boltardy is as usual the most popular seed for the start of the year...
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Magic start to the year for growing media sales
Jack’s Magic is the early bird compost of choice for keen gardeners wanting to get a head start in 2017, according to GTN Bestsellers, which also sees Westland Gro-Sure Perlite Pouch 10 litres enter the Growing Media Top 50 for the first time...
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Primulas are the bestselling plant of the year so far
Plant sales volumes at the start of the year have dropped to just less than 50% of the week before Christmas but the most popular plants that are looking good are still selling in high volumes, especially Primulas...
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Wyevale Garden Centres launches new e-commerce site
Wyevale Garden Centres has launched its new e-commerce website to all customers, following a trial period for Garden Club members. This launch is central to the businesses ambition to become fully multi-channel...
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Notcutts celebrates 120 years of glorious gardening
Notcutts, the family-owned garden centre business, will be marking its 120th anniversary this year after opening as a nursery in 1897...
Caroline Notcutt with the large gold medal won at Sandringham Flower Show.
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£2m investment in ad campaign for Westland SafeLawn
Westland will invest over £2m in a TV and digital advertising campaign in 2017 to promote Westland SafeLawn, a new product encouraging more consumers to feed their lawn...
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Wyevale Nurseries raises £1,042 for Greenfingers Charity
Wyevale Nurseries has raised £1,042 for Greenfingers by backing its ‘Turn Old into Gold’ fundraiser, which sees discontinued or unwanted stock auctioned off in aid of the charity...
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Green festival during Plantarium 2017
Young people accept the challenge and take on the organisation
During the trade fair Plantarium, which will be held from 23 to 26 August 2017, a green festival for and by young people will be organised for the first time. The festival is one of the items that aims to make the fair more trendy in order to let Plantarium have a higher profile as a source of inspiration in the field of green applications...
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Exhibitor stands at PATS Sandown 'sold out'
Visitors to PATS Sandown in March can expect a busy and exciting show as all exhibitor stands at the two-day event have now been sold...
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