Dobbies Garden Centres Limited has just announced the Restructuring Plan has been approved by the Court of Session in Scotland. Dobbies will exit the leases of 10 loss making sites and two additional sites will move to other garden centre operators...

Garsons Garden Centre Esher (Destination Garden Centre), Castle Gardens (Garden Centre) and Pughs Wenvoe (Local Garden Centre) have been announced as the national winners of the Garden Centre Association’s Gisela Graham-sponsored annual Christmas competition...

Garsons took the top spot nationally in the Destination Garden Centre category for the third year running.

After the success of last year's Christmas Customer vote we’ve formally added back in in-store voting on paper voting slips to allow even more customers to share their appreciation of the magical Christmas retailing experiences that are created by garden centres across the UK.

Last year almost 19,000 garden centre customers voted for their Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Team as part of GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards. Since the launch last month, thousands of votes have already been made on-line for garden centres across the UK.  Will your customers vote your team as The Greatest at Christmas this year?  Voting is open until December 22nd and remember we do award regional winners too...

Our team of judges are really getting into the Christmas spirit as they visit a record entry of 120 garden centres that have teams nominated in this year’s Greatest Christmas Awards...

As well as the kudos and fame from winning a Greatest Christmas award, our Gold winners in each of the judged categories will win prizes including stock, services or hotel accommodation from our Greatest Awards sponsors. 

In this Issue:

• GTN’s Greatest Christmas Awards – the judges hit the road to visit 120 garden centres
• Choice Marketing – winners from the conference and awards
• Opinion – retailers on implications from the Budget
• Keter celebrate 80 years of Stewart Garden
• Glee New Product Directory – every product entered this year
• GIMA Award – winners in the roll of honour
• Glee New Product Directory continued
• Review of PATS Telford
• Houseplants in the mall – a look around The RHS Plant Space
• Planteria – plants for the festive season
• HTA Viewpoint - A chance to give back
• GIMA Viewpoint – Managing Risk

GTN will be publishing its Sustainability Directory again and this year's theme will be 'Where next for Garden Centres?'.

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