In This Issue
Pughs cancel their award winning Christmas Grotto for 2020
Face masks from Global Journey are a garden centre bestseller
How garden centres can adapt to a sustainable and successful long-term online strategy
Riding High into the Summer Holidays
Dobbies and Sainsbury’s launch grocery partnership
First UK visitors to Kaemingk showroom after lockdown
Million Bells are No 1 for the first time
No financial support for English plant growers
Woodlodge acquires Adobe Wholesale and The Garden Foundry
PATS Telford is added to the list of Autumn trade show cancellations
Growing media sales up by 69%
New serious-but-stylish additions to the Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball range
Find out more about the UK’s first truly sustainable firewood brand, Kindwood
Honeyfield’s and RSPB are going on the road
Bosch and Gardena establish battery alliance
Sipcam Home & Garden becomes the exclusive distributor of Blumen International’s leading product portfolio in the UK and Republic of Ireland
Seeds of change in Wild Bird Care
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Plant Area Manager, Goonhavern Garden Centre, Cornwall.
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Two thirds of Garden Products sales gap made up
“We’re on your side” - Premium Christmas Trees vows to make it easier for retailers to drive sales of Christmas Trees this festive season
HTA launches ‘Keep Britain Growing’ Campaign
GIC and Haith Group bag new orders from Kelkay
PetQuip Awards will recognise industry’s outstanding achievements in an innovative format for 2020
The best of last week's
New Investors and re-structure at Fountasia
Face covers are bestsellers in advance of becoming compulsory
Lockdown gap for plant sales won’t be made up
GIMA holds virtual AGM and elects Simon McArdle of Westland Horticulture as President
Amazing recovery continues
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
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Pughs cancel their award winning Christmas Grotto for 2020

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Pughs Garden Centres in South Wales have announced that they will not be running their award winning Christmas Grotto Experience in 2020 and the announcement has been met with hundreds of supportive posts on social media...

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Face masks from Global Journey are a garden centre bestseller
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There was good news for the range of Global Journey Face Masks last week. The aggregated sales of their face mask range make them the No 1 selling face masks in garden centres according to GTN Bestsellers...

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How garden centres can adapt to a sustainable and successful long-term online strategy
 

 

Glee are hosting a webinar today, Thursday 23rd July, about how garden centres can adapt to a sustainable and successful long-term online strategy...

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Riding High into the Summer Holidays

Garden Centre sales are riding high as we run into the summer holiday period.  Total sales volumes in July are exceeding those we’d normally expect to see in June as people continue to make the most of the garden spaces...

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Dobbies and Sainsbury’s launch grocery partnership

Dobbies Garden Centres announced last week an exclusive partnership with Sainsbury’s to bring a range of high quality food and grocery products to Dobbies’ garden centres...

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First UK visitors to Kaemingk showroom after lockdown

Gordon Riggs are the first UK garden centre to visit the Kaemingk showroom again...

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Million Bells are No 1 for the first time

A drying up of supplies of Zonal Geraniums means they drop off the top of the GTN All Plants Chart to be replaced by Calibrachoa...

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No financial support for English plant growers

The Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has confirmed that there will be no financial support given to English plant growers through a compensation scheme.

 

The HTA are now seeking assurance that garden centres will retain ‘essential retailer’ classification for future COVID-19 related planning, ensuring that forthcoming Brexit trade arrangements will balance free trade with the UK’s biosecurity needs and to spearhead a ‘Buy British’ campaign for all direct and local government procurement processes for forthcoming landscape projects...

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Woodlodge acquires Adobe Wholesale and The Garden Foundry

Woodlodge has announced a major expansion of its garden decoration range with the acquisition of Adobe Wholesale and The Garden Foundry, allowing the company to significantly increase its offering of eye-catching, on-trend outdoor lifestyle décor...

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PATS Telford is added to the list of Autumn trade show cancellations
 

This year’s PATS Telford, the UK’s number one pet industry show due to take place on 27th-28th September 2020, has been cancelled following the PM’s announcement that conferences are unlikely to be allowed until at least October 1st ...

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Growing media sales up by 69%

The average volume sales increase per week for growing media since re-opening has been 64% and last week, as sales would normally be dwindling in advance of summer holidays, sales climbed and were up 69% on last year...

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New serious-but-stylish additions to the Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball range
 

 

This season the much-loved Sophie Conran for Burgon & Ball collection sees many new key additions to strengthen the range in both the core garden and the gift categories...

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Find out more about the UK’s first truly sustainable firewood brand, Kindwood

With the launch of Kindwood the notion of sustainable firewood is becoming a reality. The brainchild of entrepreneur Taylor Gathercole, Kindwood is ripping up the rule book and doing everything it can to get people thinking differently about how they shop, their impact upon the planet and even the role that fire plays in their day to day life and memory making...  

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Honeyfield’s and RSPB are going on the road

Marriages are going on the road with their bird care brands, Honeyfields & RSPB. The specially designed exhibition truck is filled with samples of the Honeyfield’s new range of hardware, from feeders and dining stations through to their range of Bird Tables which were launched for this season. That is not all, RSPB, who are distributed and packed by Marriages, have an area within the rolling showroom showcasing the charities range of bird care...

 

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Bosch and Gardena establish battery alliance

Bosch and Gardena will form an alliance and together with other leading brands, will offer a cross-brand battery system for products in and around the entire home: The Power for All Alliance. The basis of this Alliance is Bosch cordless technology...

 

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Sipcam Home & Garden becomes the exclusive distributor of Blumen International’s leading product portfolio in the UK and Republic of Ireland

Sipcam Home & Garden, the company behind the innovative ecofective® and RHS Garden Care ranges, has signed a deal with Blumen International Ltd that will see Sipcam appointed as the exclusive distributor of Blumen’s product portfolio across the UK & Republic of Ireland...

 

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Seeds of change in Wild Bird Care

There are seeds of change running through the GTN Bestsellers Wild Bird Care chart at the moment.  This week last year only 7 of the Top 50 Bestselling lines were not from Gardman/Westland and this year lines from other suppliers had infiltrated to the extent that they have taken 19 of the Top 50 sales positions and accounted for 34% of the total Top 50 sales volume...

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