GTN Xtra - GTN Xtra - Issue 45 2016

Catering Awards - June 7th @ HTA Catering Conference
Plant Retailing Awards - June 22nd @ National Plant Show
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Eureka! Solar Lightbulb takes major GIMA Award

The Eureka! Solar Lightbulb from Smart Garden Products has been awarded this year's highest new product accolade – the Sword of Excellence - at the GIMA Awards. The team behind the bestselling product received their award at a special awards evening at Celtic Manor Golf Resort in Wales on Thursday...

Full list of GIMA Awards winners and gallery of pictures

Records broken for funds raised for Greenfingers

Suppliers, retailers and associates from the garden industry applauded the recent announcement that the fifth annual Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day in March was the most successful ever, raising an amazing £140,000...

Pictured above: Presentation of cheques to Greenfingers and Perennial from money raised at ther GIMA Golf Day.

Alton, Blue Diamond, Hillview, Klondyke and Squires are GTN's Greatest Garden Centre fundraising teams
The Greatest Supplier Fundraising Team is Cadix

Alton, Blue Diamond, Hillview, Klondyke and Squires garden centres have been named as GTN's Greatest Garden Re-Leaf Day Fundraising teams for their Plantathons, and received their awards at the GIMA Awards. Cadix picked up the best supplier fundraising team award...

Gallery of pictures from the GIMA Awards

The GIMA Awards was attended by more than 400 guests and as well as celebrating the excellence of companies within the garden industry it was a fantastic evening for everyone to network and have some fun, laughing at the jokes of comedian Tim Vine. Here's a gallery of pictures from the event...

Pictures from the GIMA Awards

Eco Aggregate Ivory – one of Meadow View Stone's Top Ten sellers is back

Meadow View Stone are delighted to announce that this highly sought after chipping is now once again available to its stockist...

First half down! Will Christmas get sales back into the black?

A wet June capped off an “interesting” first half of the year, according to the GTN Bestsellers data. Our index of All Sales ended down 2.8%, the Garden Products Top 50 volumes down 4.1%, and Veg-2-Gro Top 50 sales down 25%...

Pelargoniums are the UK’s bestselling plant

Since April we’ve published a GTN Bestsellers Top 20 Garden Plants chart and every week so far the genus Pelargonium has been No 1...

Above: Fantastic Living Label “Geraniums” at Castle Gardens helped them win a prestigious award in GTN’s Greatest Plant Retailing Team Awards.

New greetings card range gives something back

A new range of greetings cards has been launched to raise money for charities Perennial and Greenfingers...

How to tackle ‘scary’ plant retailing

Scary was a keyword of the day at Plant Retailing – Fit for the Future, an HTA event which took place at Ball Colegrave in Banbury during its Summer Showcase...

Plantarium releases first glimpse of show's new plants

The organisers of Plantarium 2016 (24-27 August, Boskoop, Netherlands) have released details of a number of new plants to be exhibited at the show...

Right: Berberis thunbergii 'Orange Sunrise', with its intense yellow edge.

Matthew Wilson to tell Chelsea medal story at Tong GC

TV and radio gardening expert and award winning RHS Chelsea Flower Show designer, Matthew Wilson will revisit Tong Garden Centre this week to share his experience of designing the show's biggest garden...

If it's July, it must be Christmas for Wyevale Garden Centres

Wyevale Garden Centres revealed their 2016 Christmas range to the national media last week in Soho with a major emphasis on Christmas Food for this season...

See our picture gallery from the preview

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Animals feared to have died in garden centre blaze

Several animals are feared to have died in a blaze which destroyed a Norfolk garden centre...

Feeding plus pest and weed control help light up sales

Plant feeding plus pest and weed control products have helped to light up sales in the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products Top 50 chart this week...

Compost sales see upturn on the previous week

The majority of products in this week’s GTN Bestsellers Growing Media chart have experienced an increase in sales volumes compared to the previous week...

Notcutts double offer to train ten students at Thrive

A new training bursary has been created at Thrive thanks to a touching and generous donation in the name of the late Charles Notcutt who passed away in 2015 aged 81. Pictured is Charles' daughter Caroline, who presented the charity with a cheque...

Wolf trimmer earns Which? 'Best Buy'

Gardening Which? has awarded the WOLF-Garten GTE850 electric corded strimmer a Best Buy...

Industry urged to adopt holistic approach to wine weevil threat

An emergency summit aiming to find an industry-led solution to the threat of vine weevil took place on Tuesday last week...

Inside the July issue of Garden Trade News

The July issue of Garden Trade News is packed full of advice and information for garden retailing professionals...

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