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Smart Garden has announced the promotion of James Parr to its Board as National Accounts Director...

Sales of pots and seed trays were the shining lights in Garden Product sales from the GTN Bestsellers EPOS database. Twenty-one pot and seed tray lines increased their sales and featured in the GTN Top 50 chart as keen gardeners beat the cold to get ready for growing...

This year the purchasing of garden plants for the new season once again started at GROEN-Direkt! Because of COVID-19, the largest green market in Europe organised a Spring Showroom instead of its usual Spring Fair.,,

Growing media sales were hit by The Beast from the East (2021 edition) but were 120% higher than the lowest week during The Beast from the East (2018)...

RHS members have voted in favour of a change to the RHS Bye-Laws to enable RHS Council, in circumstances deemed exceptional, to support the election of a new member of Council who, at the date of nomination, has been a member of the RHS for less than three years...

Wild Bird Care was the only GTN Bestsellers index to show a year on year increase during the very cold second week of February, up 21% on 2020 levels. Nest boxes and feeding stations were amongst the lines that saw the biggest increases...

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Risk Capital Partners, a London-based private equity firm has further enhanced their consumer-focused portfolio with the acquisition of online gardening products retailer, Primrose. The company will continue to trade as normal, led by its CEO Mark Pearson...

All it took was one week of relatively good February weather for gardeners to get out to centres to make their essential gardening purchases and we saw sales volumes bounce back up to normal levels for this time of year...

Stanley Bragg Architects have secured planning permission for a warehouse extension at Scotsdale Nursery, Great Shelford near Cambridge...

Floralsilk has opened its impressive purpose built showroom located in Bourne, Lincolnshire.  Spread over 6,500 sq ft, a visit to the showroom provides the opportunity to see an unrivalled extensive range, check the quality of products, and find inspiration from stunning displays...

Garden centres have ranked amongst the top 10 types of local businesses supported by UK consumers according to new data from Tyl by NatWest which explored pandemic purchasing habits and the motivations behind them...

Consumer demand for garden landscaping products has remained high through the lockdowns and the team at Kelkay expect this to continue when restrictions are lifted...

It's only a matter of weeks before we reach the garden retail industry’s favourite FUNdraising event of the year – Garden Re-Leaf Day (March 19). Here we find out about some of the events which will be taking place throughout March 2021 to help Garden Re-Leaf celebrate its 10th anniversary.

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In advance of the launch of GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards 2020, GTN's Northern Correspondent, Steve Myatt, paid a visit to Barton Grange to bring you this first GTN Xtra Christmas photo tour.

Charles Stubbs, Lewis Fox and Nemanja Tintor, along with the rest of the BGC team, were proud as punch yesterday as their 58th centre at Thatcham in Berkshire opened...

Haskins Garden Centre in Snowhill, Crawley, has opened its doors to customers following a 12-month refurbishment costing £15m...