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Outdoor Living market is now worth in the region of £975m
The size of the Outdoor Leisure market in 2013 now stands at around £975 million, significantly higher than previous estimates of the market. That's the verdict of a new LOFA-commisioned report...
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Santa drives sales to a new Christmas volume record high
Santa has proved to be a bigger attraction than ever at UK garden centres with stores reporting record numbers of families taking advantage of the superb Christmas displays and grottos...
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How Stars for Europe keep your customers coming back for more… poinsettias
 Stars for Europe (SfE) is an initiative set up by a group of poinsettia breeders to promote poinsettias across Europe. In 2011, SfE successfully applied for EU funding for the pan-European poinsettia campaign "Stars for Europe - Stars Unite". The UK was chosen to be a part of the campaign due to promising sales potential. In the UK we buy on average 0.1 poinsettias per person, as opposed to the 0.4/0.5 bought in Germany. The goal of the EU campaign is to stabilize the price level and raise total sales of poinsettias...
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Armitage's Pennine, Bents, Endsleigh, Ransoms and Van Hage (Great Amwell and Peterborough) win GCA regional Christmas display awards
The Garden Centre Association has revealed the regional winners of its annual Christmas display competition. Armitage's Pennine, Bents, Endsleigh, Ransoms and Van Hage (Great Amwell and Peterborough) won Destination Garden Centre awards while All in One, Armitage's Birchencliffe, Castle Gardens, Raglan and St Peters took Garden Centre honours...
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Another great week for garden product sales
Garden products are still benefiting from the high footfall at garden centres with the GTN Bestsellers chart showing sales volumes nearly 24% higher than last week and 14% above the same seven-day period in 2012. In fact the volumes are higher than any of the first 13 weeks of 2013...
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Nick Davies' new venture will help Westland to expand
Westland's backing of a new business venture to be run by former Solus Garden & Leisure MD Nick Davies will allow the company to expand without taking its eye off its key business areas. That's the view of Westland's managing director Edward Conroy...
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Would a Santa Paws Grotto for dogs work in garden centres?
The Greatest Christmas Awards team have been out and about judging garden centres this week but it hasn't seen anything like this...a Santa Paws Grotto for Dogs. The grotto in Pimlico, London and run by pet company Lily's Kitchen, has attracted over 1,000 animals, including the pet dogs of Robbie Williams...
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