Garden Care gets Gold treatment at Aylett's
The winners of GTN's Greatest Garden Care Retail Team for 2015 are the team from Aylett Nurseries beating off stiff competition from Barton Grange, Silver Award winners, and the garden cenre teams at Alton's and Chessington Garden centres who claimed Bronze Awards...
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Customer satisfaction is everything at Scotsdales
GTN's The Greatest Garden Centre Customer Service Team Gold Award winner was the team from Scotsdales, ahead of Fron Goch and Coolings who collected Silver Awards and the teams from Perrywood and Whitehall Lacock who were announced as Bronze Award winners...
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Colin Squire awarded prestigious Pearson Memorial Medla
Colin Squire, chairman of Squires Garden Centres, was presented with the Pearson Memorial Medal at the HTA Garden Futures dinner at Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire...
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Find out what the best are doing...and copy it!
Find out what the best are doing…and copy it! That was the advice offered to HTA Garden Future Conference delegates by leading retail consultant Dennis Reid...
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Rising Stars wins Gold for Westland and the GCA
The Greatest Training Initiative Award, sponsored by MorePeople, was presented to Rising Stars run by the GCA and Westland...
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Economic benefits driving the growth of the green consumer, claims analyst
Economic benefits rather than ecological ones appear to be driving the consumer’s growing commitment to sustainability, according to Dominic Harrison, global trends director at the Futures Foundation...
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Homebase to train 80 through Garden Academy next year
Homebase is to double the number of employees training through its Garden Academy to 80 next year, trading director Jon Kemp (left) told HTA delegates...
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E-commerce: softly-softly approach by garden centres?
A panel of key garden industry players was quizzed on the role of the internet and social media, price deflation and the garden centres of the future at this week’s HTA Garden Futures Conference. Some answers suggested garden centres were taking a softly-softly approach to e-commerce...
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September has been a disappointing month for garden centre sales
September has been a slumbering month for garden centre sales this year. Sales volumes reported to GTN Bestsellers from garden centre EPoS data shows sales for the month to be down 5% on last year and only marginally up on September 2013...
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The Gardens Group joins forces with ABF The Soldiers’ Charity to welcome Alan Titchmarsh to Dorset
Alan Titchmarsh will be presenting an evening of gardening prose, poetry and anecdotes at The Crown Hotel in Blandford on Thursday 19 November at 7pm. Sponsored by The Gardens Group, this special event will raise money for the Army Benevolent Fund (ABF) The Soldiers’ Charity, which was set up in 1944 to support serving soldiers, veterans and their families...
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Strong plant sales as Bents goes back to its roots
It hasn’t been the best of summers, but despite the weather Bents Garden & Home has bucked the industry trend for sales of outdoor plants. The Warrington based Centre can report figures which are not only ahead of the competition but are also almost 12% up on last year’s sales to date...
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STV aims for 10 million
“The only way is up!” says STV managing director Edwin Allingham. STV is on track to sell over 10 million units of pest control products a year...
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