Richard Pyrah has more than 30 years in the garden market, but he believes this pre-season has been the best he’s ever experienced. AMES UK are reporting an uplift on 2018 of over 46% on a like for like basis across Kelkay, Woodshaw and La Hacienda.
Wentworth Garden Centre have been praising Corby & Fellas’ WinRetail system with Rob Monk saying: "We were blown away by not only how easy the system was to use, but by the amount of data and information it could provide"
Squire’s Garden Centres has published its financial results for the year ending 31 July 2019. It was another year of record sales; turnover increased by 15% to £57m, helped by excellent weather conditions throughout the peak season...
Clothing and houseplants were bestsellers at garden centres across the country according to the Garden Centre Association’s Barometer of Trade report for November (2019)...
The annual Garden Re-Leaf Day Sponsored Walk and Cycle Challenge has become an integral part of the Garden Re-Leaf activities, and this year the event will be finding itself a new home within the heart of the Chilterns...
Retailers who are taking stock of their festive season trading performance are being offered a helping hand to boost Christmas tree sales during 2020. Premium Christmas Trees is working closely with retailers to tailor their tree offering and drive sales at the tail-end of the year...
GTN is compiling a Sustainability Directory to be published in January 2020 that will provide a guide for garden centre buyers and staff to the sustainability initiatives of garden centre suppliers...
During 2019 we've published over 2000 stories in GTN Xtra that have been read by 35,519 unique readers. The e-mail newsletter and the website that is created for each issue has been opened 532,607 times during the year and 1,061,667 pages viewed.
From all that activity here are the Top 100 Most Read Stories of the year...
As the dust settles on the completion of the sale and winding down of Wyevale Garden Centres, here's GTN Xtra's complete list of which centres went where...
Wyevale Garden Centres has today announced the sale of 11 garden centres in four separate transactions to British Garden Centres, The Plant Area Limited (t/a Clandon Park Garden Centre), Coolings Garden Centres and Maidenhead Aquatics.
Wyevale Garden Centres have today announced the sale of a further six centres. Five northern centres centres have been sold to British Garden Centres and Woburn Sands has been sold to Rochmills Group...
In a year that has seen Primeur’s penetration of UK garden centres increase exponentially, the company has been busy working behind the scenes to develop its instore merchandising displays for the award-winning Eco Garden range...
GIMA’s Knowledge Exchange programme will kickstart 2020 with the return of the popular ‘Developing Selling Skills’ session on 25th February at Horticulture House, Didcot...
The Horticultural Trades Association’s Contact Conference invites those working across the nursery sector to sit up, take notice and act. The spotlight is about to shine on the state of the horticultural nation. Sponsored by ICL, the HTA Contact Conference will kick start the year with a horticultural bang on Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 January 2020 at Horticulture House, Chilton.
