LeisureGrow Products Ltd has acquired the business interests of Petface out of administration. Key Petface personnel will be kept on by LeisureGrow Products Ltd, and the Petface brand will be run out of LeisureGrow Products Ltd’s head office in Hinxworth, Hertfordshire. Petface stock will be centralised in LeisureGrow’s distribution centre...
Laburnum anagyroides Yellow Rocket® from Frank P Matthews has been crowned this year as Best in Show at the New Plant Awards on the opening morning of the HTA National Plant Show at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry...
Deroma, the world‘s leader in terracotta pottery located in the North of Italy, will be taken over most probably before the end of 2018 by a cooperation between two German companies, the Bavaria Industries Group AG (Baikap) and Scheurich GmbH & Co KG.
Malcolm Scott Consultants has successfully slashed a London garden centre’s Community Infrastructure Levy by £83,000 in a landmark appeal for the sector...
Sales volumes dropped off as we moved into June but it was a much better start to the month than last year. Compared to 2017, week 23 saw volumes up by 32%, driven mainly by plant sales and growing media...
Plant sales were up 51% compared to last year for the first week of June pushing overall plant sales volumes in the GTN Bestsellers data to a position of up by over 5% year to date...
Garden centres across the country saw a boost in May sales thanks to the good weather and two Bank Holidays according to the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Barometer of Trade (BoT) report...
Exhibitors and organisers of the trade fair look back on a successful first edition of Garden Trials and Trade. The international visitors, the novelty showcase and the compact and well-organised exhibition floor made the trade fair a very worthwhile experience, according to both exhibitors and visitors...
TV, film and stage actor Stephen Mangan has been announced as the host of the 2018 GIMA Awards. Best known for his role as Sean in the hit transatlantic comedy series Episodes and Guy in surreal comedy-drama Green Wing, his most recent work includes highly acclaimed TV dramas Bliss and The Split...
Fleuroselect, the international organisation for the ornamental plants industry, has announced that the FleuroStar Award 2018/19 goes to Osteospermum ecklonis Purple Sun from Selecta one...
The first week of June delivered a massive uplift in Garden Product sales compared to the same week last year but not up to the levels of early June in 2016, 2015 or 2014...
A bumper week of growing media sales at the start of June has reduced the year on year deficit to less than 4% now as top soil and bark products increased sales week on week while compost sales dropped...
Wyevale Garden Centre CEO Roger Mclaughlan has revealed to GTN Xtra that it’s “business as usual” while the company considers offers on its 145 centres."We are well set up for peak trading, and all colleagues are focused on ensuring we continue to deliver best-in-class retail experiences for our customers," he said...
Suppliers and retailers from the garden retail industry came together for a day of fun, team building and networking at the GIMA Charity Golf & Activity Day in Telford, raising funds for Greenfingers and Acorns Hospice...
