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Vote now for the Best Buyers of 2022 - The Buyers Power List at Glee - Voting starts today
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Click here to vote for the best buyers of 2022
Voting closes at midnight on Monday 27th June with the winners announced and celebrated on The Stage at Glee on Tuesday 28th June at 5:00pm.
Nominations for The Glee Buyers Power List 2021 include buyers from:
Alton Garden Centre, Aylett Nurseries, B&M, Barton Grange, Baytree Garden Centre, Bents Garden & Home, Blue Diamond, British Garden Centres, Burford Garden Company, Caulders Garden Centres, Charlies Stores, Cherry Lane Garden Centres, Chessington Garden Centre, Choice Marketing, Crocus, Dobbies, Downtown Garden Centre, Fakenham Garden Centre, Fron Goch, GardenSite, Garsons Esher, Gates Garden Centre, Haskins, Hilliers, Hillmount, John Lewis, Klondyke, Knights Godstone, Laylocks Garden Centre, Longacres, Marie Curie, New Leaf Plant Centre, Notcutts, Pets at Home, Perrywood, Planters Tamworth, Polhill Garden Centre, Poundland, Primrose.com, Pughs Garden Centres, QD Stores, RHS Wisley, Robert Dyas, Rosebourne Garden Centres, Sapcote, Silverbirch, Squires, St Peters Worcester, Stax Trade Centres, Stewarts Garden Centres, Summerhill Nurseries, The Old Railway Line, The Prosper Group, Webbs, Wilko, Yarnton Home & Garden.
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See the full list of nominations and link to the voting page here
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New products, Glee style...in association with GTN. Last call for New Product Showcase entries
The Glee New Product Awards, in association with Garden Trade News, is one of Glee’s most inspirational features and is sure to be the place for buyers to source the most unique and sought-after products during Glee 2022. The showcase features the latest and greatest products on the market, offering visitors a chance to see all the newest products all in one place.
With over 350 new products expected to be entered and displayed in the Glee New product Showcase, exhibitors need to make sure they have made their entries via the Glee Exhibitor Zone by midnight on Thursday 23rd June 2022.
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Have your customers singing in the rain!
GTN Xtra Promotion
In a partnership with Blue Diamond Garden and Living Centres, Taylor Made Designs has supplied custom branded umbrellas, in their distinctive brand blue, to help customers browse the outdoor aisles and transport products from the tills to their cars whilst avoiding direct exposure to the rain...
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Wildlife World's new products at Glee 2022
GTN Xtra Promotion
Wildlife World is back at Glee 2022 with a wide range of new innovative wildlife and gardening products – see us at stand 6B62-C63...
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Zero In provides big opportunity for more sales of outdoor insect control products
GTN Xtra Promotion
Zero In Summer Insect Control is a complete range of more than 40 poison-free products designed exclusively for use outside. From excluding wasps from a children’s party to keeping flies away from the barbecue, during the day and into the evening, there’s a perfect ZeroIn product.
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Come celebrate 30 years in business with EKJU
GTN Xtra Promotion
EKJU are celebrating their past success at Glee 2022 as well as looking forward to the 2023 outdoor living season...
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Average start to June, according to GTN Bestsellers
While sales for the first two weeks of June have been significantly down on 2021 levels, they were 5.5% higher than the first two weeks of June 2019 and 0.3% higher than the average start to June between 2011 and 2019...
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Business as usual at Key Essentials after the untimely death of Mark Smith
The team at GTN Xtra are sad to report that Mark Smith of Key Essentials passed away unexpectedly in his sleep recently...
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Frosts in discussion with Webbs over sale of Millets Farm Garden Centre
Frosts is currently in discussions with Webbs about the potential sale of its garden centre at Millets Farm. As reported in GTN Xtra the company is also talking to Notcutts over selling its centre at Brampton...
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Bumper Glee Preview in GTN June issue - read online here
 GTN June 2022 - Bumper Glee Preview.
- Westland Glee 6 page preview
- Making peat free work for everyone – the transition to peat-free growing media
- Chelsea Trends for retailers 2022
- Woodmansterne Glee Greetings
- Easy wood splitting with Fandango
- Digestate peat free from Bloomin Amazing
- Get summer ready with Onduline
- GTN’s Summertime Glee Preview
- Glee Exhibitor News
- Primeur will keep the tills ringing in 2023
- Clever ideas from Clever Pots
- Hassle-free greenhouse sales – Vitavia
- Floral Thursday at Glee
- LOFA Column – New booking system for SOLEX
- HTA Column – Make the most of trade shows
- GIMA Column – No time to take a breath yet
Read GTN's June 2022 Glee Preview Issue on-line here
Sweet Pea 'Peter Seabrook' wins Best New Plant award
Sweet Pea 'Peter Seabrook' won the Best New Plant award at BBC Gardeners’ World Live...
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Making peat free work for everyone - watch video discussion from the Glee studio
In the run up to Glee, GTN's Trevor Pfeiffer hosted a round table discussion in the Glee Studio with Marcus Eyles, Roger Crookes and Adam Wigglesworth about making peat free gardening work for everyone with a special focus on making the most of the opportunities for the future...
Watch the video here
Lava-Lite named Green Start-Up award winners
Lava-Lite is named the Midlands Green Start-Up of the year winner at the final of the Start-Up Awards National Series...
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Zest enables Motor Neurone sufferer to conquer Snowdon
Managing Director of garden furniture, grow your own and decorative garden structure specialist, Zest, Steve Morgan along with fellow fundraiser for motor neurone disease research, Robert Boyns of Boyns Information Systems Ltd joined forces to support MND sufferer Ian Flatt as he and his team took on Snowdon...
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Top gardeners take home prestigious awards
Back and as big as ever, BBC Gardeners’ World Live kicked off its four-day garden-extravaganza at Birmingham’s NEC with the announcement of the ‘Best in Show’ award winners...
Frances Tophill holds her award win within her ‘Best Show Garden’, Frances’ Garden.
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LifestyleGarden issues rallying call to retailers
LifestyleGarden offers some words of advice to retailers as a growing number of consumers search formore eco-responsible products...
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Petunia grandiflora Bee’s Knees wins FleuroStar Award
The FleuroStar Award 2022-23 has been awarded to Petunia grandiflora Bee’s Knees from Florensis. Hagen Kalläne, Retail and Marketing Manager and Marjolein Kuyucu-Lodder, International Product Marketeer, accepted the prize from Fleuroselect President Karol Pawlak and Secretary General Ann Jennen.
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Perennial joins with wholesale nurseries to launch new ‘Plant for Perennial’ promotion
Perennial, the charity for people in horticulture, is launching a new promotion called ‘Plants for Perennial’ in collaboration with three major wholesale nurseries – Allensmore Nurseries, The Bransford Webbs Plant Company and Wyevale Nurseries. The scheme will generate funds for the charity through a proportion of plant sales...
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Horticultural professional named Young International Grower of the Year
Horticultural professional Pablo Bazzani won the inaugural Young International Grower of the Year Award at a ceremony held on Tuesday 14 June 2022 at GreenTech Amsterdam...
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Award on the cards for Highfield Garden World
Highfield Garden World in Gloucestershire is celebrating being named finalists in this year’s RETAS awards which recognise excellence within greeting card retail...
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Bents creates new job roles to focus on its people
Bents Garden & Home is refocussing its strategy to its colleagues and introducing a number of new positions within the company, designed to make ‘Bents an Exceptional Place to Work’...
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Encouraging customers to make the switch to peat free gardening
GTN's Sustainability Directory 2022 available to read on-line here
 GTN’s Guide to Sustainability Innovations for Garden Centre Retailing.
- Encouraging customers to make the switch to peat free gardening - comment from RHS, Millbrook, Buckingham, The Gardens Group, Hillier, Cherry Lane, Pughs, Alton's, Groves, St Peters, Monkton Elm, Lakeside Plant Centre, Planters, Notcutts, Green Pastures, Summerseat & Bradley Fold Garden Centres.
- Taking Charge – Garden Centre EV Charging.
- LOFA members Improving green credentials.
- Get ready for new EPR regulations.
- Green commitment at Highfield Garden World.
- Small steps, big difference at The Gardens Group.
- Plant Hope at Perrywood.
- New Sustainable Products.
- Sustainability Directory 2022.
Read on-line here
GTN Interviews: Steve Morgan, Zest - Nick Rubins, Cherry Lane Garden Centres
GTN May 2022 Issue available to read on-line here
In the May 2022 issue of GTN magazine:
- Coming of age for Cherry Lane
- Garden centre ambulance for Ukraine
- Make your own vinok - aid ideas from Ukraine
- Glee Buyers Power List Nomination Form
- Get ready for a summer of trade shows
- GTN meets the suppliers – Zest
- Greenfingers Ty Hafan garden opens
- LOFA Column – Excited for SOLEX 2022
- HTA Column – Veg led revolution
- GIMA Column – The great juggling act of 2022.
Read on-line here
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Petunias outsell Zonal Geraniums
Yes, that’s correct Petunias have outsold Zonal Geraniums to be the most popular plants purchased in garden centres this summer, for the past three weeks...
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Tomorite dominates
Top 50 garden product sales have suffered during the first two weeks of June. Down 28% compared to 2021 and 14% down on 2019. A lack of sales of decorative items, particularly garden lighting, is one of the main factors...
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Record year for Veg-2-Gro
Although Veg-2-Gro sales have slowed in the first two weeks of June, sales year to date still sit up on both 2019 and 2012 levels. This really is a record year for veg being grown at home...
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Average start to June for growing media sales
Growing media sales really slowed up in the first two weeks of June this year. Top 50 volume sales were down 38% on the same two weeks in 2021...
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Fat Snax are bestsellers
Out of all the sectors analysed weekly by GTN Bestsellers, Wild Bird Care has fared best compared with 2021 at the start of June. Top 50 sales volumes were only 9% down on last year...
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Wyevale Nurseries unveils printed promotional catalogue
Wyevale Nurseries will be unveiling its new printed promotional catalogue at the HTA National Plant Show this month after a break of two years due to Covid...
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Shortlist announced for inaugural AIPH World Green City Awards 2022
The International Association of Horticultural Producers, AIPH, has announced a shortlist of eighteen entries from cities around the world for the first edition of the AIPH World Green City Awards...
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Perennial develops ‘Support for Families’ programme amid rising cost of living
Perennial has developed its ‘Support for Families’ programme with new resources to help families access a wide range of support available to them...
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
Fire at Blue Diamond’s Grosvenor Garden Centre
The warehouse at Grosvenor Garden Centre in Chester, caught fire at around 3.30am on Tuesday (June 14), The garden centre remains closed to the public and is expected to open on Thursday morning...
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Graf UK win at GIMA Golf Day
The Graf UK team of Anthony Bradbeer, Kevin Beckett, Matthew Rolph and Alan McLaughlin won the closely contested GIMA Golf Day Cup last week at Belton Woods Golf Course in Lincolnshire...
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Dobbies expands compost bag recycling scheme across UK
Dobbies has expanded its compost bag recycling scheme following a successful trial across 10 of its stores...
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Experience the Summer of Garden Love at Glee 2022
As Glee gets set to open its doors in late June for the first time ever (28th – 30th June, NEC, Birmingham), the UK’s leading garden centre trade event invites you to a summer of garden loving...
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NEC + Heaven Sends Showroom = The Perfect Trip
GTN Xtra Promotion
Are you going to the NEC Birmingham between 28th and 30th June? Then we’ve got another stop to add to your buying trip!
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Treadstone to follow 2021 new product award with further innovations
GTN Xtra Promotion
Garden products supplier, Treadstone, is set to unveil further innovation for its product portfolio at the Glee Birmingham show this month. This includes brand new ranges and impactful merchandising to support sales in store...
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GROW YOUR sales...with the new Global Journey Seed Ball Dispenser
GTN Xtra Promotion
Seed balls contain around 30 seeds, sprouting in 4-6 weeks. The balls are a mini ecosystem, protecting from birds, ants and slugs and providing nutrition as the seeds germinate and grow...
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