In This Issue
Garden industry pays tribute to Dave Stafford who loses his fight against kidney cancer
Funeral to take place at Rochdale Crematorium
New glimmer of hope on Easter Sunday trading, say HTA
Planning decision threatens future of Berkshire garden centre
March sales down on last year but prospects look good
Lighting products shine through cold winds and rain
Leading brands set to return to Glee this year
Love Your Plot Masterclasses attract over 100 delegates
B&Q to close 60 outlets - but plans 'garden and bathroom' stores
Dobbies has UK's 'best garden centre website'
Inside Percy Thrower's Wyevale Garden Centre
Briers raise £7,000 for Greenfingers with #glovies campaign
Over £50,000 already pledged for Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day
Greenfingers benefits from the sale of 3,400 Town & Country gloves...and there's still more to come!
Roundup announce 'Pimp up' competition winners
White Stores raise £2,691 for Greenfingers on Garden Re-Leaf Day
Group Plant Buyer - Farnham, Surrey
Garden Centre Manager - Hampshire
Plant Area Assistant - Essex
Packhouse Supervisor - Cambridge
Grower Supervisor - Peterborough
More veg grown due to young plants
Growing activity waiting to happen
QVC's Richard Jackson launches website with a difference
Hot topics at the HTA Catering Conference
Share your #GardenSecrets with Gro-Sure Planting Magic
Greener fleet to help drive GreenThumb growth
GrootGroen trade show bookings well ahead
Gardman donates £20,000 of dog food to Wood Green
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Garden industry pays tribute to Dave Stafford who loses his fight against kidney cancer

Tributes have been pouring in for All-In-One Garden Centre founder Dave Stafford, who has died at the age of 71 following a 15-month battle against kidney cancer. Dave passed away peacefully on March 26 with his family by his side...

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Funeral to take place at Rochdale Crematorium
Dave's funeral will be held at Rochdale Crematorium on Tuesday 7th April 2015 at 1.40pm.
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New glimmer of hope on Easter Sunday trading, say HTA
The HTA have been invited by a government department to a meeting to discuss the Easter Sunday trading ban, one of the garden industry’s longest-standing grievances...

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Planning decision threatens future of Berkshire garden centre
A garden centre owner has warned his 70 staff they face an uncertain future following the local planning authority’s refusal to grant a lawful use certificate for developments on the site after years of wrangling...

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March sales down on last year but prospects look good

Do you remember trading in March 2013?  Well, this March is significantly better than that, up by 40% for all items sold according to GTN Bestsellers Epos data. So despite sales for the month being 8% down on last year, the deficit is recoverable if we have a good April and May...
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Lighting products shine through cold winds and rain
 
Cold winds and rain dampened growing activity after Mother’s Day weekend, but GTN Bestsellers Top 50 volumes are up on the same week last year. This is mainly driven by continued growth of solar lighting sales...
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Leading brands set to return to Glee this year


A wealth of well-known brands are set to make their return to Glee this year, which takes place at the NEC in Birmingham on September 14-16...
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Love Your Plot Masterclasses attract over 100 delegates


The Love Your Plot Masterclasses, aimed at helping garden centre and nursery teams to use the GIMB research to attract new 30-45 age group customers, have attracted an impressive total of over 100 delegates nationwide over the past few weeks...
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B&Q to close 60 outlets - but plans 'garden and bathroom' stores

B&Q is to close 60 stores in UK and Ireland, parent company Kingfisher announced this week - but has plans for 'garden and bathroom' stores...
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Dobbies has UK's 'best garden centre website'
Web consultants Sitemorse have ranked Dobbies’s website as the best-performing garden centre website in the country in the first quarter of the year...


Above: part of the home page on the Dobbies website
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Inside Percy Thrower's Wyevale Garden Centre


Customers have given the new Percy Thrower's Wyevale Garden Centre a massive thumbs-up, so GTN Xtra spent the afternoon at the Shrewsbury store to find out why it's so special...
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Briers raise £7,000 for Greenfingers with #glovies campaign
 
Briers have raised an impressive £7,000 so far from their Greenfingers #glovies campaign, which included a world record set for the number of glovies taken at 11am on Garden Re-Leaf Day...
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Over £50,000 already pledged for Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day



The organisers of the fourth annual Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day are celebrating first signs of the event’s success, with a fundraising total of over £50,000 already confirmed ahead of final results...

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Greenfingers benefits from the sale of 3,400 Town & Country gloves...and there's still more to come!
 
3,400 and still counting...that’s the number of pairs of Town & Country gardening gloves sold on Garden Re-Leaf Day that have so far been calculated.  With more than half of garden centres still to submit their sales figures, Town & Country is confident of at least doubling that figure...
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Roundup announce 'Pimp up' competition winners





Goonhavern and Waterside Garden Centres have won the first round of this year's ‘Pimp up your Roundup’ challenge to get creative with their in store displays...

Left: the winning Goonhavern display.

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White Stores raise £2,691 for Greenfingers on Garden Re-Leaf Day
Outdoor living retailers White Stores have raised £2,691.20 for the industry’s Greenfingers children's hospices charity...

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