British businessman, Sir Terry Leahy, a shareholder of Dobbies, and Graham Corfield, Chief Operating Officer for Just Eat, are two of the high profile line up of speakers at the Cultivating Retail Conference, sponsored by Evergreen Garden Care, which takes place on 19 November 2019 at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham.  Come and join your peers this Autumn at Cultivating Retail…

After four weeks of Christmas sales reporting the GTN Bestsellers Top 50 Christmas Products index is showing sales values up by 9% year-to-date and at the highest level for any of the past five years. Could this herald a bumper Christmas sales season ahead?...

Creative Products Bottle Lights are really providing a boost for garden product sales, with sales volumes this week four time that of the No.2 best-selling line...

Bookings open this week for the Garden Centre Association’s 2020 Conference at the Mercure Grand Hotel in Bristol (Sun 26 – Wed 29 January). 2020...

Phase one of the redevelopment at Haskins’ Snowhill centre has been completed, including opening of a new temporary building from which the centre will trade until next spring's re-opening...

Staff at Langlands Garden Centre in Shiptonthorpe rallied together last week to support breast cancer charity Breast Cancer Now, raising over £1000 during the annual Wear It Pink day...

Work has started on an extension to Selby Garden Centre in Yorkshire that will double its turnover over the next five years and return it to profitability...

A welcome evening at Squire’s Garden Centre at Wokingham was attended by customers old and new, along with representatives from local councils and organisations..

Pictured (:left to right): Wendy Baron (Squire’s), Debbie Gray (Squire’s), Lynn Forbes (Wokingham Town Mayor), Sarah Squire (Squire’s chairman), Alana Andro (Squire’s) and Graham Carter (Squire’s manager).

A Wyevale Nurseries employee will take part in a sleep out next month to raise money for a homeless charity.

Lincolnshire based multi-channel garden retailer YouGarden, founded by entrepreneur Peter McDermott seven years ago, has completed an MBO....

Employees of Zest 4 Leisure have raised more than £15,000 for Hope House and Tŷ Gobaith, the company’s chosen charity for 2019...

The Australian Hardware Journal reports in its October issue that a small independent retailer has launched a campaign to get the government to legislate against what it considers to be unfair competition from big corporate rivals...

The politics in Westminster this summer may have been somewhat disappointing, but displays of Ball Colegrave’s SunPatiens have certainly been outstanding...

GIMA’s Knowledge Exchange Workshop autumn schedule sees the return of negotiation skills and sales development planning sessions...

The organisers of IPM ESSEN (28-31 January 2020) have announced that France is to be the show’s partner country for next year’s event...

Tong Garden Centre near Bradford is collaborating with West Yorkshire business Sneaky Experience for its popular Christmas Grotto for the fourth year running...