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Garden industry starts New Year with major changes at retail giants
What a week that was! The garden industry has certainly started the New Year with a frenzy of activity as major changes take place at retail giants Wyevale Garden Centres and Dobbies, plus news that award-winning Burgon & Ball has been bought by a Canadian company. As a result GTN's Newshound is having to take a rest in his kennel to recuperate...
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Shake-up at the top of Dobbies but Nicholas Marshall stays
Rumours circulating in the garden industry today that Nicholas Marshall had left his job as CEO of Dobbies have proved be unfounded although two of his senior team – Lorrie Robertson and Andrew West – have left the company. Commuting to Edinburgh has been given as the reason for their decision to leave.
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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HTA Catering Conference 2018 - ‘A Recipe for Growth’
Bookings are now open for the HTA Catering Conference 2018, ‘A Recipe for Growth’, which takes place on Tuesday 5 and Wednesday 6 June at Birmingham Botanical Gardens. This successful two-day event and dinner is aimed at all those in garden centre catering from business owners and managers to chefs and front of house staff...
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Fine Food Show North serves up three course feast
 With a keynote talk from food critic, writer and broadcaster, Jay Rayner, The Jolly Tasty pop-up pub sampling Great Taste award-winning beers & ciders, retail clinics with the School of Fine Food and Shopper’s Anonymous all on the line up, the new look Fine Food Show North (formerly Harrogate Find Food Show) is set to be bigger and better than ever before...
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Arrange a viewing to see Gardman’s Christmas Spectacular 2018 display
You can arrange a viewing of Gardman's Christmas Spectacular 2018 display at one of three venues – Peterborough showroom, Daventry warehouse or the Pop-Up Showroom at The Majestic Hotel, Harrogate...
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Gardman 2018 Christmas Spectacular includes 125 stand-out products
This year the Gardman 2018 Christmas Spectacular includes 125 stand-out Christmas products, 84 of which are BRAND NEW and consist of a comprehensive range of battery operated lighting, dual power and solar power lighting, home furnishings, doormats, garden décor, natural botanical decorations, artificial decorations, storage solutions and tree stands…all set at attractive price points to maximise those seasonal sales...
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Bonningtons announces new website launch
New customer-led features promise a much improved user experience
Bonnington Plastics Ltd, the Nottingham based importer and distributor of home, gardening and leisure goods, has launched a new e-commerce website...
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Schoolboy sees gardening glove design become a reality
Ten-year-old Aidan Parmar saw the realisation of his glove design when he received a surprise presentation of the finished article by Briers in front of his classmates and parents at Brocks Hill Primary School’s morning assembly in Leicestershire...
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Enterprising nursery supplies ambitious airport project
Johnsons of Whixley has supplied a range of trees, plants and grasses as part of the construction of a new £15m link road at Manchester Airport...
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Looking for Christmas Ideas for 2018?
If you are on your way to Harrogate and wanting some extra input of ideas for your Christmas 2018, take a look at GTN's photo tours of 30+ garden centres this Christmas including:
- Aylett Nurseries
- Barton Grange
Baytree
Bents
Blue Diamond Trentham
Brookside, Kent
Castle Gardens
Daleside Klondyke
Dobbies Mellville
Fresh at Burcot
Fron Goch
Frosts Woburn Sands
Gardenwise
Gouldings
Haskins Ferndown
Haskins West End
Hetland
Kirktown
Mains of Drum
Millbrook Gravesend
Notcutts Solihull
Old Railway Line
Planters Tamworth
Pughs Radyr
Raemoir
Ruxley Manor
Silverbirch
Summerhills
Thurrock
Whitehall Lacock
Woodlands Ash, Kent
See GTN's Christmas Garden Centre photo tours
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Wow, what a year of change when it comes the the Christmas Bestsellers for 2017. Sixty out of the Top 100 Bestsellers are New Entries, underlining the importance of New Product Development...
