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Wyevale refine leadership structures and introduce more flexible ways of workings
With 39 centres out of 145 sold as we approach Christmas, Wyevale Garden Centres appear to be streamlining their staffing levels as they prepare what's left of the UK's biggest Garden Centre group for trading in 2019...
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Old Railway Line Garden Centre implements Corby & Fellas WinRetail System
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Corby & Fellas are delighted to announce that, yet another prestigious garden centre - The Old Railway Line Garden Centre in Brecon, Powys - has installed WinRetail, the powerful, comprehensive and fully integrated Retail Management EPoS, E-commerce and Retail Management System...
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Award-winning Primeur expands team as demand soars
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After a fantastic 2018, Primeur expand their team with agents to help with the demand for their award-winning products...
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No snow brings Christmas joy to festive sales
No snow made for a joyous time in garden centres last week. Christmas sales reached a new high and with footfall significantly up compared to last year when we had our first dump of snow, all of the GTN Bestsellers sales indexes for the week were up with the exception of Wild Bird Care...
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Poinsettias peak but not at last year's levels
Plant sales rallied as garden centre footfalls reached peak levels pre-Christmas to deliver sales up 13% on the same week last year. Poinsettia sales soared to reach No 1 but didn’t quite hit the peaks of last year. Perhaps this year’s peak Poinsettia sales will come over the next two weeks...
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HTA to promote children's gardening at Chelsea
The HTA will be returning to RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2019 with a Discovery Zone exhibit titled ‘Helping Children Grow’, promoting National Children’s Gardening Week...
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Helping the homeless this Christmas
‘Charity begins at home’, or so the saying goes. But for those people who find themselves without a home charity is even more important, and with this in mind colleagues at Bents Garden & Home have been busy creating and collecting Christmas gift boxes for the homeless...
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£2,500 award on offer in horticultural research scholarship
A new Horticultural Research Scholarship has been launched by the David Colegrave Foundation (DCF) to support applied research in the horticulture industry...
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Oliver, 3, gets apology from Dobbies after he was stopped from meeting Santa
Dobbies has apologised to a three-year-old boy who was turned away from a Santa's grotto at its Gailey centre in Staffordshire because he wasn't on Father Christmas's list...
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Johnsons garden centre plant sales soar by 10%
Johnsons Garden Centre Sales, which supplies plants to independent garden centres, has put ambitious plans in place for 2019 following a year of strong growth...
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Taylors announce results of Autumn Bulbland Competition
Sunshine Garden Centre in London has been crowned National Winner of the Taylors Autumn 2108 Bulbland competition...
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Green light for Tong's £4m expansion plan
Bradford Council has passed Tong Garden Centre's £4 million plans for major expansion due to start in January...
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Former Dobbies CEO is new HTA chairman
Former Dobbies CEO James Barnes has been appointed as chairman of the HTA...
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Former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen to speak at 2019 GCA conference
Attendees to next year’s (January 20 until 23, 2019) Garden Centre Association (GCA) annual conference will be able to hear from former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen. Kevin will be a guest speaker at the conference, which takes place at Luton Hoo Hotel, Luton, on Tuesday, January 22. Places can be booked via www.gca.org.uk.
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Welcome boost for garden product sales
Garden products that cross into and fit the Christmas theme provided a welcome boost to sales as footfall benefited from no snow last weekend...
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Ho, ho, ho! Christmas sets a new record
The first week of December 2018 set a new all-time record for the sales volumes of the GTN Bestsellers Top 50 Christmas products...
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From 18% down to near parity confirms great eight months
A final year on year increase in growing media sales sees the sector get ready to close the year at almost parity on 2017. Who would have thought that possible when in the middle of April sales were sitting at 18% down?
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Wild Bird Care sales increased in line with overall sales
Wild Bird Care sales increased in line with overall sales and footfall last week but fell short of last year’s levels which were mainly driven by the snow encouraging gardeners to think about wild bird care...
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Ball Colegrave launch new Speedplanters as demand grows
In response to an increasing demand for colour-themed planters, Ball Colegrave have launched three new Speedplanters for the 2019 season...
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BALI raises valuable funds for Greenfingers
BALI presented Greenfingers, one of its 2018 charity partners, with a donation of £2,741 at its annual awards attended by more than 1,000 in London...
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Tildenet promote James Leyland to head up group marketing
Tildenet marketing manager James Leyland, has been promoted to head of marketing as part of the drive to develop marketing across the whole Tildenet Group...
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These plants match retail colour trends says nursery
Wyevale Nurseries has put together a selection of new plants to follow predicted trends for the retail sector next year...
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STAX perx rewards programme saves customers thousands
Since it was launched by Stax Trade Centres in March, the innovative Stax Perx programme has already gained over 6,500 users who are now enjoying cash savings on both business and personal products and services from a wide variety of the UK’s top brands and high-street stores...
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Flopro Professional exceeds expectations
The new Flopro Professional Range which was launched at Glee 2018 has received wide acclaim within the garden industry...
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Campingaz fuels growth of cylinders with new Flogas partnership
To kickstart its 70th anniversary in 2019, Campingaz has confirmed a new partnership with Flogas Britain Ltd...
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
Recently sold Wyevale Garden Centre to be renamed
The new owners of Wold View Garden Centre are to rename the Lincolnshire store Horncastle Garden Centre following the announcement of its purchase from Wyevale last Tuesday...
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Grovewell grows to four with Hamstreet from Wyevale
Wyevale Garden Centres and Grovewell Garden Centres have confirmed the sale and purchase of Hamstreet Garden Centre in Ashford, Kent...
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Dobbies grows sales following management shake up
Following a new leadership team being appointed in January, Dobbies has achieved six consecutive months of year-on-year sales growth...
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Plans to knock down another former Wyevale centre and build homes is blocked
A bid to knock down a former Wyevale Garden Centre – Aldridge in Walsall – and build homes on the site has been blocked by local planners. The garden centre was sold to the the UKS Group in September after it was put on the market for £800,000...
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