In This Issue
Tackling the big garden industry issue: growing media and peat...what happens next?
Will the Washout from the West be as bad for garden centre business as the Beast From the East?
Drive sales this Garden Re-Leaf Day with a Greenfingers product display
Sponges - the new gardening bestsellers?
Impressive sum raised for Thrive at open day
Gina and John heading to Monte Carlo in £500 banger
Make Garden Re-Leaf your reason to feel warm and fuzzy in 2020. Sign up now!
Great start to a new season for Durstons
Homebase to sponsor IT'V's Love Your Garden
GIMA Innovators’ Seed Corn Fund 2019 winners: Natural Grower – how the award has helped shape their business
2019 was the year of the houseplant says GCA
Garden centres off to a strong start in 2020 according to HTA Market Update
Boosting category growth in UK garden retailers
More names sign up to the 2020 Garden Re-Leaf Sponsored Walk & Cycle Challenge
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Homebase makes early return to profit
Garden centre boss who stole almost half a million pounds has hearing adjourned
Bradford Garden Centre creates new role to oversee expansion plans
RSPB calls for nests not nets
Primeur’s Eco Garden stands transform retailers’ displays as the gardening season begins
The best of last week's
Celebrity joins fight to prevent garden centre closure
Highfield Garden World gets green light for £2m expansion
Storm Dennis takes the shine off sales
Key retailers to headline GIMA Day Conference
Garden Centre Photo Tours
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Tackling the big garden industry issue: growing media and peat...what happens next?

A leading figure in the growing media sector has revealed how the garden industry is tackling the ongoing ‘Blue Planet’ debate about how to provide customers with quality compost in the future...

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Will the Washout from the West be as bad for garden centre business as the Beast From the East?

Another weekend of high winds and rain pushed the GTN Bestsellers All Products Sales Index down to the lowest level the past 10 years for week 8...

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Drive sales this Garden Re-Leaf Day with a Greenfingers product display

With Garden Re-Leaf Day on the horizon (13th March 2020) now is the perfect time for garden retailers to think about how they’ll be supporting the annual fundraising event. One idea could be to add a dedicated Greenfingers product display at the heart of the store, showcasing all the amazing products that leading garden suppliers have launched to help raise funds for the children’s hospice garden charity...

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Sponges - the new gardening bestsellers?

Lakeside Plant and Garden Centre in the flood hit area of Telford in Shropshire used social media this weekend with a bit of fun to keep gardeners spirits up...

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Impressive sum raised for Thrive at open day

More than £1,900 was raised for gardening-for-health charity Thrive at the Europlants Open Day...

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Gina and John heading to Monte Carlo in £500 banger
 

LOFA marketing manager Gina Hinde and her husband John will be heading to Monte Carlo in a £500 banger to raise money for Greenfingers Charity...

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Make Garden Re-Leaf your reason to feel warm and fuzzy in 2020. Sign up now!
 

Each year we endeavour to be better. It might be eating better, promising to go to bed at a reasonable time, or it might be finding ways to give back to others. Supporting a charity is one way of doing this. With Garden Re-Leaf just days away (13th March 2020), why not grab your ‘warm and fuzzy’ by participating in the garden retail industry’s number one fundraising event?..

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Great start to a new season for Durstons

The new spring season for UK based Durston Garden Products couldn’t have got off to a better start with orders up 15% on last year...

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Homebase to sponsor IT'V's Love Your Garden

Homebase has partnered with ITV to sponsor its popular gardening show, Love Your Garden, hosted by Alan Titchmarsh...

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GIMA Innovators’ Seed Corn Fund 2019 winners: Natural Grower – how the award has helped shape their business
 

Since 2014 the GIMA Innovators Seed Corn Fund has helped five brands break into the UK garden retail market. The 2019 winners were Natural Grower, who impressed the judges with the brand’s organic and veganic gardening credentials; credentials that fit perfectly with an increasingly demanding consumer conscience...

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Leading associations reveal plans for Commercial Kitchen Show

Commercial Kitchen has gained more big industry backing ahead of its move to London this 3-4 June, with the Craft Guild of Chefs now onboard as a new association supporter...

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2019 was the year of the houseplant says GCA

The category with the biggest increase in sales during last year (2019) at garden centres across the country has been announced by the Garden Centre Association as part of its Barometer of Trade report. Houseplant sales saw a year to date increase of 17.6% compared to 2018.

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Garden centres off to a strong start in 2020 according to HTA Market Update
 

2020 got off to a promising start with January 2020 garden centre sales up 8% compared with January of last year according to the latest HTA Market Update report, published this week...

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Boosting category growth in UK garden retailers

Garden retailers who wish to inspire their customers with an elegant and architectural look that’s worthy of the Chelsea Flower Show, can now do so with Kangular’s structural screening and installations, ideal for homeowners wanting to add an instant contemporary design statement to their outdoor space, whilst also helping to drive sales of the garden structure category throughout 2020...

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More names sign up to the 2020 Garden Re-Leaf Sponsored Walk & Cycle Challenge

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The 2020 Garden Re-Leaf Sponsored Walk and Cycle Challenge (13th March 2020) is hotting up with several new names signing up to take part in the event, including some fabulous brands supporting with sponsorship...

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