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Blue Diamond profits grow by 18% to £10.8m
Blue Diamond Ltd have reported a pre tax proifit of £10.8m for the year ended December 31st 2018 a 18% increase on 2017...
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SOLEX launches new website
SOLEX – the Summer Outdoor Leisure Exhibition – which will be opening its doors to the most influential buyers from within the garden industry on 9 July 2019, has launched its very own website to help visitors to register and attend the event.
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When will garden centre sales peak in 2019?
Nobody expected us to get the same record peaks as last year during the second week of May, and hopefully nobody set their budgets at that level, because the great British weather and those persistent North Easterly winds put paid to any thought of a super busy Bank Holiday week...
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Treadstone supports stockists with full range of merchandising materials
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As part of its ongoing commitment to its stockist customers, Wrexham-based Treadstone Products has put together a comprehensive range of merchandiser options to support all of the products in its three main product ranges, which include The Good Life selection of gardening essentials, the newly launched range of ClipGlove gardening gloves and Peter Rabbit themed gardening products for children.
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Celebrating 10 years of the HTA National Plant Show
The tenth HTA National Plant Show, sponsored by Hortipak, takes place at Stoneleigh Park on Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 June. Visitors are encouraged to register now at www.nationalplantshow.co.uk to ensure that they are able to enter the show swiftly and maximise the opportunity of everything on offer...
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‘Chelsea favourites’ set to soar in garden centres
Wyevale Garden Centres has identified the plant champions of Chelsea for 2019: the affordable, accessible and easy-to-grow ‘Chelsea favourites’ that gardeners can readily introduce to their outdoor space this summer...
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Bristol to welcome GCA members for 2020 conference
The Garden Centre Association has announced that the location of its 2020 annual conference is to be Bristol. The annual event will be held at the Mercure Bristol, Grand Hotel from January 26 until 29. Mike Burks (pictured), who is the GCA Chairman Elect for 2020/21, said: “Bristol is a vibrant city with good communication links."
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Notcutts Booker unveils new look
A special ribbon cutting event has been held at Notcutts Booker Garden Centre, near Marlow, to celebrate the opening of the newly refurbished garden centre and restaurant...
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City Gardening and more - the trends of the green industry spoga+gafa 2019
The entire world of the garden: International trade visitors from all over the world can look forward to this and much more at spoga+gafa in Cologne from 1 to 3 September 2019. Around 2,100 exhibitors from 60 countries will present everything the green industry currently has to offer on 230,000 m² of exhibition space...
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Wyevale Garden Centres agrees the sale of three centres
Wyevale Garden Centres today announces two transactions for a total of three garden centres to Blackbrook Garden Centres and Capital Gardens Limited. Hastings and Lower Dicker (pictured above) will be sold to Blackbrook Garden Centres and is expected to complete by end of May to early June. Sherfield-on-Loddon centre will be sold to Capital Gardens Limited and is expected to complete by mid-June. All three centres will continue to be run as garden centres.
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Introducing the Taste Village at Glee
With catering and food sales continuing to offer major add-on profit opportunities for garden centres, Glee will be offering retailers extensive inspiration at the newly introduced Taste Village...
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Commercial Kitchen 2019 previews new product innovations
From table-top pasta cookers, professional food thermometers, temporary kitchens and portable bars, to the latest in ovens, fryers, grills, glasswashers and grease management solutions – there’s a long list of new kitchen innovations to discover at Commercial Kitchen 2019...
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Watering provides sales boost for garden products
Watering provided a boost to garden product sales during an overall disappointing week for the GTN Garden Products Top 50 chart...
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Growing Media sales back up to Easter levels
The high levels of Veg-2-Gro plant sales continues to drive sales of growing media as we move through May and keep them above year-to-date levels for 2017 as well as 2018...
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Best year yet for growing vegetables at home
Veg-2-Gro Top 50 lines have now been up on last year's levels for 14 consecutive weeks...
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Not such a mad planteria Bank Holiday
Plant sales held up vs 2017 levels for the week of Bank Holiday Monday 2019, even though they were 33% down on that mad planteria Bank Holiday week of last year...
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Feeding station is panacea for sales
Wild Bird Care sales volumes almost got back up to 2017 volumes last week with Top 50 sales volumes increasing for the third consecutive week...
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21 participants in Garden Trials and Trade present themselves in digital trade fair magazine
The second edition of Garden Trials and Trade will take place on 11, 12 and 13 June 2019. New this year is that 21 participants will present themselves in a digital trade fair magazine.
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Hillier appoints new horticultural buyer for garden centres
Hillier Garden Centres has announced the new Horticultural Buyer that will be joining the team in July 2019. It will be Alan Dorber...
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
Wyevale sells Worthing Ferring Garden Centre to Cobbins Nursery
Wyevale Garden Centres today announced the sale of Worthing Ferring to Cobbins Nursery Ltd, who will continue to run the site as a garden centre...
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TV gardener to open new look garden at Tong GC
Popular TV gardener Katie Rushworth returns to Tong Garden Centre later this month to open her new look garden and outdoor living space...
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Hayes delighted with Corby & Fellas WinRetail system
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In 2018 the management team at Hayes Garden World in the Lake District decided to upgrade their current EPoS and Retail management software. They evaluated several systems before choosing Corby & Fellas’ WinRetail system. Since its installation in early 2019 the team have been delighted with WinRetail’s performance...
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Garden Centre Tour - Mahoney Garden Centre, Boston, USA
Here's a Garden Centre Tour from Boston USA. Peter Seabrook received these photos from Farid Khalil, plant buyer for the Mahoney chain of garden centres in the Boston area and thought we should share them via a GTN Xtra Photo Tour...
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Garden Centre Photo Tour - Notcutts Norwich
GTN Xtra had the pleasure of visiting Notcutts Norwich last week...
See our photo tour here
Garden Centre Photo Tour - Blue Diamond Bicester Avenue
Alan Roper welcomed staff and suppliers to an evening event on Monday 15th April 2019 at Bicester Avenue Garden Centre to celebrate the completion of the refurbishment from a Wyevale Garden Centre that they bought last summer to a Blue Diamond Centre that is ready and raring for Easter 2019...
See GTN Xtras photo gallery from the event
Garden Centre Photo Tour - Hillier Botley
What would you expect from a Hillier centre? Authoritative ranges of products and plants, crisp merchandising, and expert staff. That’s exactly the delivery at Botley...
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Garden Centre Photo Tour - Baytree of Hilgay
Having completed the purchase of their second garden centre at Hilgay on the A10 near Downham Market the Baytree family team held their Grand Opening Event this weekend...
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Garden Centre Photo Tour - Forest Lodge
In garden furniture Forest Lodge report good early sales, particularly the small corner weave sets and the metal framed lower couch style furniture from Life “it’s appealing to the younger audience looking for some style on their patio...”
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