In This Issue
How to get your garden centre in the papers
Destination retailer Arboretum wins Ireland's Company of the Year award
Will it be a storming Christmas?
Notcutts saddened by John Woods Nurseries administration
40 new Homebase staff take up Garden Academy training
Santa parachutes in...and makes little Lucy's dream come true
Hibiscus topples poinsettia in T&M's Christmas mail order Top 10
Are you The Greatest at selling Pet Christmas products?
Centres urged to back Needlefresh charity initiative via Christmas tree sales
Vote for your Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year
Book your tickets for GTN’s Greatest Christmas Party
Christmas dinner in the garden is catching on says survey
Re-development plans for Whitehall Lacock
Field Sales Support (Vivid Arts Ltd) - ideal location East / South Manchester with access to M60
Key Accounts Manager – Outdoor Living
Plantarea Horticultural Manager - Berkshire
Contracts Manager – Leeds Area
Garden Centre Sundries Shop Manager - Northamptonshire
Mixed fortunes for sales of garden products
Shoppers get into the Christmas spirit
Decorative bark is a bestseller this week for Westland
£2,500 travel bursary awaits Young Horticulturist of the Year
Deadline nears for Lawn Academy training places
Book Training Roadshow places now to get Earlybird discount
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
New guidelines on labelling 'free from...' foods
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How to get your garden centre in the papers
PR work made easy from poinsettia pros Stars for Europe

Last Christmas Wyevale made the news by promoting the hell out of their aim to sell six poinsettias a minute, and Squires are always telling the press what’s on, be it their new style plant displays or a list of their child-friendly activities to keep the little ones occupied during the garden centre visit.

Whether you’re a small independent business or a huge chain, you still have time to see yourself in the papers and the Stars for Europe poinsettia campaign can help with a collection of PR tips and templates.

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Destination retailer Arboretum wins Ireland's Company of the Year award
County Carlow destination garden retailer Arboretum won the Company of the Year award at this year’s Retail Excellence Ireland Awards – to add to last year’s Store of the Year award...

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Will it be a storming Christmas?


Christmas sales increased by nearly 20% last week, according to EPoS data supplied by garden centres for GTN Bestsellers. And that drove overall volume sales to the same level as last year for week 46...
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Notcutts saddened by John Woods Nurseries administration
 
Notcutts, the UK’s largest family owned garden centre group, has this week expressed regret to hear administrators have been appointed to John Woods Nurseries..
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40 new Homebase staff take up Garden Academy training
Forty new employees have won places on Homebase’s ‘Garden Academy’ training programme...




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Santa parachutes in...and makes little Lucy's dream come true
A five-year-old's dream of becoming Santa's helper has come true thanks to Tong Garden Centre near Bradford, Yorkshire’s biggest garden centre.



Above: Lucy Bracewell and her sister Megan.
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Hibiscus topples poinsettia in T&M's Christmas mail order Top 10





Hibiscus is likely push pointsettia out of Thompson & Morgan's Top 10 mail order gift plants this Christmas...

Hibiscus 'Festive Flair' [image: T&M]


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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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New guidelines on labelling 'free from...' foods
New guidelines covering ‘free from…’ claims on food products have been issued by two leading trade organisations and health campaigners…

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Are you The Greatest at selling Pet Christmas products?


A new category has been added to The Greatest Christmas Awards for 2015. Our team of experts will now also be looking for The Greatest Christmas Pet Sales Team...
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Centres urged to back Needlefresh charity initiative via Christmas tree sales





Christmas tree supplier Needlefresh is offering garden centres a way to donate to Greenfingers via Christmas tree sales...
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Vote for your Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year


As part of The Greatest Christmas Awards, garden centres get the chance to vote for the supplier they feel has been their Greatest Christmas Suppleir of the Year...
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Book your tickets for GTN’s Greatest Christmas Party


Tickets are now on sale for GTN’s The Greatest Christmas Awards Party, sponsored by Premier Decorations.Come and join us for the party of the year in Harrogate on Sunday 10th January 2016...
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Christmas dinner in the garden is catching on says survey
Recent research into the outdoor leisure market by Cuprinol confirms what savvy garden retailers have long known - that people don’t intend to stop using their outdoor spaces once summer is over...

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Re-development plans for Whitehall Lacock


A planning application to re-develop the garden centre site at Whitehall Lacock is being considered by Wiltshire Council...

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