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Canadian Cannabis Grower buys UK Bedding and Ornamental Grower
Bridge Farm, Spalding, has been bought by Canadian Cannabis grower Sundial Growers Inc. with plans to produce and sell high-quality CBD products globally...
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Growing Sustainably with Vegepod
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Vegepod believes sustainability is a question of the product’s overall effect on the environment – not just on the initial footprint. So, are the company's plastic pods user-friendly, durable AND eco-friendly? You bet they are...
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Primeur take top prize as GIMA Award winners announced
Primeur won the Sword of Excellence at the GIMA Awards on Thursday night with their Tierra Verde Recycled Rubber Planters. Other winners on a spectacular night of celebration at Celtic Manor in Wales included: Smart Garden Products, Hozelock, Gardena, EP Barrus, Chesneys, Farplants, Forest Garden, Treadstone, RSW International, Vitax and Westland…
See all the GIMA 2019 winners here
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2020 – Work begins for creative minds and practical brains of Garden Pride
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It's already that time of year again when the creative minds and practical brains get together to design and manufacture our 2020 ranges. Garden Pride is working hard to add new and improved products to each of its 10 core categories: Pot care, rusty range, plant supports, climbers, growing, brackets, patio planters, accessories and gift ware, Autumn and Christmas.
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Smart Garden Products voted GCA Supplier of the Year
Smart Garden Products were voted GCA Supplier of the Year at the GIMA Awards....
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Picture Special of the glitzy GIMA Awards evening
Here's our picture special from Thursday's glitzy GIMA Awards evening, hosted by TV celebrity Vernon Kay. Pictures taken by Steve Burden and Trevor Pfeiffer...
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A cheque for £8,000 presented to Greenfingers
A cheque for £8,000 was presented to Greenfingers Charity at the GIMA Awards. The money was raised at the GIMA Golf & Activity Day in June...
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Hillier to supply plants on a contract-only basis from December
Nursery will focus on supplying its own expanded portfolio of 16 centres
Hillier is to stop distributing plants outside its own garden centre group unless they are grown on a contract basis...
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Choice Marketing recruits three new members
Three more garden centres have joined Choice Marketing. Highfield Garden World (Whitminster) joined from the 1 July, while existing member Blackbrooks of Sedlescombe has added its new garden centres at Hastings and Lower Dicker...
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Heat takes the edge off sales
After all that rain we wanted the sunshine, but not the heat. Sales for the last week dropped by 4% and that meant June overall sales volumes, as measured by the GTN Bestsellers Epos data, were down by 12% on June 2018...
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Ansell GC rises from the ashes...with Newspan in support
In November 2016 Newspan shared the industry’s shock at seeing Ansell Garden Centre destroyed by a devastating fire. “There couldn’t have been a worse time to suffer such a blow to our business,” said Ansell’s MD Paresh Raithatha. “We were holding more stock than at any other time of year and looking forward to a busy run up to Christmas. All our stock was lost to fire and water damage, six weeks before Christmas”. Fortunately, nobody was injured in the blaze, although the damage to the garden centre and all its stock was catastrophic. This is what happened next...
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Dobbies submits plan for Dunfermline expansion
Dobbies is seeking permission to extend its 10-year-old Dunfermline garden centre to provide more retail space and improve the farm shop and food hall...
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2019 plant sales down on 2018 at half year
After last year’s brilliant May and June for plant sales everyone said we should wait until the end of June 2019 to make real year-on-year comparisons. And the results are in: Year to date plant sales volumes are down by 6% on 2018 but up by 2% on 2017...
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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It’s a chaotic yet profitable recipe for garden centre catering
HTA Catering Conference offers practical insights
Balancing staffing levels through the day, having too many customers at peak times, needing more kitchen space, having a full car park but a quiet location, and managing layout and workflow, all make for a chaotic yet profitable recipe for the garden centre catering arena. Both those looking to develop their catering outlet and those introducing catering for the first time came together at the HTA Catering Conference to find out how they could get ‘A slice of the pie’...
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Work starts on new 250-seater restaurant at Notcutts Woodbridge
A ground-breaking ceremony marked the start of a major project to develop a new 250-seater restaurant at Notcutts at Woodbridge, Suffolk...
Pictured: (L-R) Darren Brooks, Chris Bruce, Andrew Ingleton, Caroline Notcutt, Andrew Notcutt (Image: Warren Page, © Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd)
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Solex Awards to be presented at the show on Tuesday
The Solex Award presentation for the Best Small Stand, Best Large Stand, Best New Product, Best BBQ Retailer and Best Furniture Retailer will take place at 5.30pm in the new LOFA Lounge situated at the rear of Hall 5 on the first day of the Solex show, Tuesday 9 July...
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End of June was too hot for garden product sales
The wet June that ended just too hot meant the GTN Bestsellers Garden Product Top 50 sales volumes were the lowest of the last six years, continuing the overall downward Top 50 trend...
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Smart Garden Products makes Stock Exchange 'inspiration' list
Smart Garden Products Ltd has been identified as one of London Stock Exchange Group’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain 2019...
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Growing Media leads the way
Despite June growing media sales being 17% down on last year at the end of the half year overall growing media sales are up by 8% year on year and up 5% on 2017...
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Planners throw out Fresh@Burcot housing application
Planners have turned down plans for housing on the site of Fresh at Burcot garden centre, which would have meant the centre’s closure...
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Wild Bird Care holds its own
Wild Bird Care sales held their own in June with one very good week at the start of the month and then three weeks that were not so good. At the half year Wild Bird Care is up 7.5% on 2018...
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GCA announces regional award meetings
Garden Centre Association members will find out who has come out on top in its annual inspections this year at regional award meetings taking place throughout July...
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Veg--2-Gro is a star for 2019
At the half year Veg-2-Gro cumulative sales are up by 48% and the June increase in sales of 4% helped keep momentum going in the right direction, as opposed to all plant sales. Veg-2-Gro really has performed well as a sector in 2019.
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Candleight ignites garden centre interest with new display unit
Candlelight Products, one of the UK's leading designers and wholesale suppliers of candles and home fragrances, has enhanced its commitment to garden centres by launching a new display unit...
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Five winning plants for 2020? Try these...
Wyevale Nurseries retail sales manager Colin Stanley has picked his top five plants for garden centres for 2020...
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Choice adds three more garden centres
Choice Marketing has announced the addition of three new garden centres to the group. Highfield Garden World, from Whitminster, joined on July 1, and Blackbrooks Garden Centre of Sedlescombe, has also added their two new centres at Hastings and Lower Dicker.
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
The magnificent GIMA Team WingWalk for Greenfingers Charity
Vicky Nuttall, Mark Portman and Lowri Walker took to the skies over the Cotswolds to raise money for Greenfingers Charity...
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GYO leads the way as Dobbies roll out Elho concept
Elho’s branded store concept has been installed across the Dobbies chain of garden centres, with grow-your-own items enjoying particular success...
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Garden Centre Photo Tour - RHS Wisley New Plant Centre
RHS Retail Director, Damian Powell, took GTN's Trevor Pfeiffer on a guided tour of the new plant centre and retail areas at RHS Wisley last week...
See our photo tour here
Hillier begins re-brand of four former Wyevales
The former Wyevale garden centres sites at Cheddar, Dorking, Lechlade and Marlow are now in the throes of re-branding under the Hilliers name following the acquisitions announced in April. The quartet brings the Hillier estate to 16 centres.
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Beware hosepipe 'backflow' warning as weather warms
WaterSafe is alerting households about the potential health risks of using a garden hosepipe for watering and cooling off if simple safety measures aren’t followed...
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New Hopetoun Gardens owners hand control to employees
The owners of New Hopetoun Gardens near Edinburgh have transferred ownership to an employee trust to secure the centre’s future for its staff...
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Garden Centre Photo Tours
If you've missed one of our popular photo tours of garden centres then click on the links below:
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