In This Issue
Record-breaking month for up-for-sale Wyevale
Westland and Crest are touring!
Garden centre business back to normality...almost!
LOFAssured initiative gains strength
Gardman lands on National TV for the first time
Plant sales outstrip supply, but now 8% up year on year
Cultivating Retail Shaping up – the new one-day event
Bents receive Gold Award for Outstanding Achievement
Greenfingers Charity and Kew Green Hotels finalists in Business awards
Borough Market Kitchen Garden set to inspire home growers at Hampton Court Show
Colin Squire collects his OBE at the palace
Bord na Móna to keep Myeloma garden blooming bright
Nursery joins forces with TV gardener and charity
If 47% of gardeners want to do less weeding, what about the rest?
Johnsons Lawn Seed’s World Cup tip for retailers
GTN Xtra and GDPR
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DecoPak enjoys the Chelsea effect
Increased pest activity leads to surge on ant and slug products
Tomato planter is a bestseller
Wild Bird Care sales still holding up well
Floramedia UK Account Manager Team goes from strength to strength
Perennial and Scotland’s Gardens Scheme partnership continues to flourish as Gardening Scotland opens doors
Johnsons launches new Growing Kit for All Year Round Microgreens and Sprouting Seeds
Greener, safer gardening with ecofective®
The best of last week's
26th June is Deadline for initial Wyevale Garden Centre offers
Homebase sold for £1.00 - "...one of the great all time disasters"
New owners for Stansted Park Garden Centre
Garden Centres in a much better place than DIY
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Adande’s Aircell Grab & Go cabinet wins energy efficiency award
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Record-breaking month for up-for-sale Wyevale

 

The heatwave of the first May bank holiday delivered Wyevale Garden Centres' highest ever trading weekend – up 61% on the same weekend in 2017 – followed by a record week of sales, up 39% on the prior year. It's good news for the 145-centre group, which has been put up for sale by owner Terra Firma...

Read more and link to "Sale of the Century" in GTN June issue
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Westland and Crest are touring!
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After last years successful regional trade shows Westland and Crest are touring again with 3 UK dates and 1 in ROI. There will be cracking show offers, dramatic merchandising solutions, full details of our comms plans, technical experts, plus an exclusive preview of our 2019 New Product Development...

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Garden centre business back to normality...almost!

 

After the volatility of the past few months, the late May Bank Holiday weekend was a week where garden centre trading dropped back to normality...

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LOFAssured initiative gains strength
 

LOFA is raising awareness of fire safety standards/regulations for garden furniture cushions in its 'LOFAssured' campaign, and already 17 members are certified. with a further 21 in progress...

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Gardman lands on National TV for the first time

Garden and bird care brand Gardman landed on UK TV this week with a sponsorship on ITV’s Good Morning Britain...

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Plant sales outstrip supply, but now 8% up year on year

 

With sales from the late May Bank Holiday Monday still to report, plant sales volumes are now 8.0% up year on year, so no wonder some growers are struggling to keep up with demand...

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Cultivating Retail Shaping up – the new one-day event
 

Channel 4 news presenter Cathy Newman will be hosting Cultivating Retail, the new one-day event for retailers, suppliers and growers which takes place on Tuesday 13 November 2018 at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham...

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Bents receive Gold Award for Outstanding Achievement

 

Bents Garden & Home has been awarded a Gold Award from Anthem Engagement, becoming only the second company in the UK to achieve this recognition, based on colleague feedback and communication...

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Greenfingers Charity and Kew Green Hotels finalists in Business awards
 

Representatives from Greenfingers Charity and Kew Green Hotels gathered at Marriott Grosvenor Square in London for a glitzy evening after their partnership was shortlisted as a finalist for the Business Charity Awards...

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Adande’s Aircell Grab & Go cabinet wins energy efficiency award

Adande’s Aircell open front, integral refrigerated Grab & Go cabinet has won first place in the Energy Efficiency category at the 2018 Footprint Awards 2018. For good measure, the product was also awarded second place in the Sustainable Catering Equipment Manufacturer category. Adande was the only company to receive a first and second place at this year’s awards...

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Borough Market Kitchen Garden set to inspire home growers at Hampton Court Show

Borough Market, Franchi Seeds and the Eden Project are joining forces to create an abundant kitchen garden for the RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower show in July...

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Colin Squire collects his OBE at the palace
 

Colin Squire, chairman of Squire’s Garden Centres, received his OBE from HRH The Prince of Wales at Buckingham Palace on Friday 18 May. He was given the award in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list in recognition of his services to the horticultural industry and to charity...

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Bord na Móna to keep Myeloma garden blooming bright

 

Bord na Móna Growise will continue its support of the Myeloma UK charity, as its show garden from Chelsea moves to a new home at the Hospice of St Francis in Berkhamsted...

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Nursery joins forces with TV gardener and charity

 

Horticultural nursery Johnsons of Whixley has joined forces with TV’s ‘off-grid’ gardener Chris Myers to create a garden for the upcoming Chatsworth Flower Show, while rallying support for a Yorkshire Dales preservation charity...

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If 47% of gardeners want to do less weeding, what about the rest?

What should we read into a report that tells us 47% of gardeners would like to spend less time weeding their gardens and 28% of people want to spend less time weeding their driveways...?

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Johnsons Lawn Seed’s World Cup tip for retailers

DLF, parent company of Johnsons Lawn Seed, is the chosen lawn seed supplier for eight out of 12 stadiums for this year’s World Cup in Russia...

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GTN Xtra and GDPR

With all the e-mails floating around regarding GDPR, at GTN Xtra, we would like to assure you that our Data Processing policies remain the same in that we actively mange the security of data we hold and that we never share data with any third party unless prior permission has been granted...

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