GTN Xtra - GTN Xtra - Issue 44 2017

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Smart Garden launch the Eureka building

Paris Natar and the team from Smart Garden Products were joined by many garden centre owners and staff at the party to open their new Eureka building in Peterborough last week...

See pictures on the Eureka building

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GCA reveals Scotland and N. Ireland regional winners

Members of the Garden Centre Association in Scotland and Northern Ireland are celebrating after picking up awards during a presentation on Thursday evening at Klondyke Mayfield.

In Scotland The Mains of Drum Garden Centre (above) was awarded Garden Centre of the Year in the Garden Centre (GC) category and Simpsons Garden Centre (below) in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category.

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Back British Business urges Durstons
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This year Durston Garden Products is returning to Glee with a specific message to Retailers and that is to BUY BRITISH...

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Christmas sell-out in September

The last week of the school holidays was a good one for garden centre trading with sales volumes up week on week and up again on last year...

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Crest launch stunning new POS campaign

Crest Garden are set to grab the headlines at Glee with a stunning range of in-store display equipment across their full range of brands – Kent & Stowe, Flopro and Plantpak...

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Stax grows garden offering through distribution deal with E.P. Barrus

Stax Trade Centres have secured a deal with E.P. Barrus to become the main national distributor for three of their leading garden brands...

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Decco and Briers join forces

Decco and Briers have signed an exclusive partnership agreement for the supply of core gloves, boots, accessories and “the award-winning” kids range across the UK...

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SBM Company to market MaxiCrop in the UK

French-headquartered SBM Company has announced a partnership agreement with Italy-based Valagro, a leader in the production and marketing of biostimulants and speciality nutrients, for the sales and marketing of the latter’s gardening product brands in Europe and the US...

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spoga+gafa 2017 proves successful for UK retailers and suppliers

Last weekend the GTN Team joined UK garden centre buyers and suppliers at poga+gafa, the world's largest garden fair in the world where there were a record number of exhibitors as well as around 39,000 trade visitors from 113 countries...

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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering

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Award-winning lunch! trade show opens in under 2 weeks!
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lunch! – the UK’s favourite food-to-go trade show – is back in just under 2 weeks’ time, on 21-22 September at its new home of ExCeL London. Thousands of buyers have already registered to attend the special 10th anniversary edition which will be its biggest yet, with a record 335 exhibitors promoting their latest NPD for the eating out-of-home market...

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Squire's Garden Centres announce 'Charities of the Year'

Squire’s Garden Centres have announced their ‘Charities of the Year’ for 2017/2018. The charities include Princess Alice Hospice, Horsley & Bookham Riding for the Disabled, the 1st Fetcham Scout Group and the Aldershot & Farnborough Guide Dog Association, amongst many others...

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Category growth with double the number of SKU’s for Gardman's Contemporary Artificial Collection

Following Gardman’s 2017 significant growth in artificial sales, and with the continued demand from consumers looking for convenience products to instantly decorate their outdoor spaces, Gardman have expanded the artificial category with double the number of SKUs...

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Wyevale Nurseries helps restore Page Park

One of the UK’s leading nurseries was selected to provide plants to help restore a community park in South Gloucestershire. The first planting party at Page Park in Staple Hill took place last Wednesday, September 6 and Gareth Withers, Amenity Sales Executive at Wyevale Nurseries in Hereford, attended.

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Brookside Christmas Grotto sells out in an hour

Greatest Award winning Christmas Grotto team, Brookside in Kent have broken yet another record with a total sell out of all their grotto tickets...

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Its a model Christmas at Notcutts Solihull

Notcutts staff and directors met at Notcutts Solihull last week to view the group's Christmas displays and ranges for 2017...

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Notcutts appoints new Trading Director

Family-owned garden centre group, Notcutts, has announced the appointment of Sarah Silverwood as Trading Director...

Apples and pots light up garden product sales

Garden decoration and autumn gardening activity are driving the highest garden product sales at the start of September we’ve seen in the GTN Bestsellers chart for four years...

Coaching Award for Glendoick Operations Director

Heather Borderie, Operations Director of Glendoick Garden Centre has graduated with the Institute of Leadership and Management's Level 3 Award in Coaching...

Barrus appoints new Sales & Technical Manager for Garden Division

E P Barrus Ltd has appointed Phil Noble to the role of Field Sales & Technical Manager for the Garden Division.

Chillis and spinach pack a punch

After a bumper season for Veg-2-Gro, sales dropped off steeply last week. Winter potatoes still dominate but there has also been a late surge of Chilli Pepper plant sales and a big boost in spinach sales, both young plants and packs of seeds...

New Business Development Manager at Darlac

Garden tools specialists Darlac has appointed Chris Owen as Business Development Manager...

Growing media jumps by 13%

Autumn growing activity continues at a pace with growing media sales up 13% on last week with bulb planting and garden projects driving many of the big increases...

Pansies challenge for the No 1 spot

For the third week in a row, plant sales have been up significantly on last year as customers snap up as much colour for their garden as possible. This week, 7 out of the Top 10 plant genus sales were up week on week with Cyclamen just holding off a big surge from Pansies to hold onto the No 1 spot.

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