In This Issue
Dobbies restructuring plan approved
Garsons, Castle Gardens and Pugh's Wenvoe win GCA's national Christmas display competition
Thousands of votes pour in for The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Teams
Biggest-ever Christmas judging journey continues
Sponsors of GTN's Greatest Christmas Awards
British Garden Centres strengthens its nursery team
Bradford Garden Centre relaunches its butchery offering
Meet the Buyer event with Dobbies hailed great success
Notcutts named ‘Best Garden Centre Pet Department’
Zest's managing director runs Valencia marathon
Fifteen new gardens join RHS Partner Garden programme
Garden centres host festive play sessions for charity
Spring Fair re-launches the Summerhouse
Sneak Preview – What’s On at Spring Fair 2025
Get your copy of GTN Xtra
Phil Tremayne and Peter Donegan to co-host APL Awards 2025
Visitor booking opens for the Garden Press Event
Kimberley Hornby George named Co-Chair of Garden Media Guild
YPHA expands to meet growing demand with new operations team
The best of last week's
Squires' Barnsfold Nurseries and Liss Forest Nursery join forces to form Barnsfold Liss
Melcourt appoints Nikki Burton as Managing Director from January 2025
The Gardens Group lays strong roots for inclusive workforce
Threaplands, the gardener’s garden centre, installs Corby + Fellas’ WinRetail
WHM Pet Group’s pedal power raises £1,400 for charity
Charles Taylor are butting the trend
Sipcam retains GIMA Sword of Excellence
GIMA Awards Roll of Honour & Full Glee New Products Directory in GTN November issue – read online
Be part of GTN's Sustainability Directory
GIMA Buyers Guide & New Product Digest Autumn 2024
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Dobbies restructuring plan approved

 

 

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...

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Garsons, Castle Gardens and Pugh's Wenvoe win GCA's national Christmas display competition

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.

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Thousands of votes pour in for The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Teams

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...

See the list of centres being voted for and download the voting posters, voting postcards and voting QR code here
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Biggest-ever Christmas judging journey continues

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...

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Sponsors of GTN'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. 

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British Garden Centres strengthens its nursery team

Following a period of exponential growth, British Garden Centres has strengthened its nursery team to increase its plant growth and production facilities nationwide...

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Bradford Garden Centre relaunches its butchery offering

Hearty's Food Hall at Tong Garden Centre has introduced a new butchery department in partnership with Yorkshire-based Bennett's Butchers...

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Meet the Buyer event with Dobbies hailed great success
 

BHETA has held another of its popular face-to-face Meet The Buyer days, this time with garden centre group, Dobbies. The event which was entitled an ‘Innovation Day’ attracted 56 attendees representing 42 suppliers, who met with six Dobbies buyers across a wide selection of categories...

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Notcutts named ‘Best Garden Centre Pet Department’

National family-owned garden centre group, Notcutts, has been recognised at the Pet Industry Federation (PIF) Awards for its high quality and diversity of pet and wildlife products in store and online...

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Zest's managing director runs Valencia marathon
 

Andrew Baker, managing director of Zest, ran his 15th charity marathon in Valencia, clocking a time of 3.08.33. It was his latest fund-raising initiative in support of Zest’s 2024 chosen charity, North East Wales Mind...

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Fifteen new gardens join RHS Partner Garden programme

Two walled gardens dating back to the 1700s, a collection of Chelsea-inspired celebrity gardens in a shopping centre and a landscape that inspired Jane Austen are among the 15 beautiful and unique gardens which will become Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Partner Gardens in 2025...

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GIMA Awards Roll of Honour & Full Glee New Products Directory in GTN November issue – read online

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
Read the issue on-line here
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Be part of GTN's Sustainability Directory

 

 

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

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GIMA Buyers Guide & New Product Digest Autumn 2024

New Products for the UK Garden Trade for 2025 from GIMA Members: Ames, Auto Pot Global, Avocet Hardware – Greenman Tools, Azpects, Bulldog Tools, Burgon & Ball, Capi Europe, Coir Products, Durston Garden Products, elho, Evergreen Garden Care, Fandango Fire Tools, Fargro, Forest Garden, Gardena, Glee, Greenkey, Greenleaf Horticulture, Handy Distribution, Harvest Pet Products, Hortiwool    , Hozelock, Johnsons Lawn Seeds, Kleen-Tex, LBC Ultralight Boots, Marriages, Meadow View Stone, Museums & Galleries, Panacea Products, Phoenox, PlantWorks, POTR, Primeur, Primus, Sipcam, Smart Garden Products, Sorbus, The Solar Centre, Tildenet, Treadstone, Vitavia, Vitax, Witt UK & Ireland, Woodmansterne, Zest Outdoor Living, GIMA Member Directory, Join GIMA.

Read the New GIMA Buyers Guide on-line here
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Garden centres host festive play sessions for charity

Tong and Tingley Garden Centres are to host festive-themed play sessions to raise money for their charity of the year...

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Spring Fair re-launches the Summerhouse
 

Spring Fair has announced the re-launch of The Summerhouse destination, now reimagined as The Summer House: Home, Gift & Lifestyle Edit, creating a uniquely inspiring and immersive environment for discerning buyers and interior designers...

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Sneak Preview – What’s On at Spring Fair 2025

As the UK's leading retail trade event for 75 years, Spring Fair brings together home, gift and fashion buyers and suppliers of all sizes from across the industry to create new business opportunities. An essential meeting place for retail, Spring Fair's seven decades of expertise offers an entire community of retailers a place for unmatched innovation and inspiration...

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