In This Issue
Hozelock grab top honour at GIMA Awards
Heatwave creates record July sales
Surge in the sales of watering products
Proposed garden centre in Dunblane could provide 50 jobs
Garden Re-Leaf name the day for 2014
The GCA announces best in area winners
Endsleigh pick up GCA Wales and West award
Preston buddies pedal 60 miles to the GIMAs...what a topping idea!
Millbrook's loyalty programme signs up 18,000 members
Stagecraft back in full production
Notcutts Garden Centre in Surrey shocked by cash box robbery
Organisers flesh out plans for new-look Glee
Essex Garden Centre Scoops UK Cake Award
Congratulations to GCA winners from Garden Radio
Broccoli and strawberries are bestselling veg
Growing media sales perform better than same week in 2012
Notcutts re-launches new craft shop in two centres
Old Mucker launches unique collection of garden fertilisers
GCA e-learning continues to GROW
Sussex Falconry entertains kids at Hillier Garden Centre
Former Pret MD heads up Working lunch! line-up
Greenfingers Get Busy at Little Havens Children’s Hospice
GTN Bestsellers - garden centre sales data every week
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
 

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Hozelock grab top honour at GIMA Awards

Hozelock’s top-selling Flexi-Spray took the Sword of Excellence for best new product in the 2013 GIMA Awards, announced on Thursday.


The Hozelock team receive the Sword of Excellence from GIMA president Vicki Nuttall and awards host Gyles Brandreth.

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Heatwave creates record July sales


With more warm – if we dare say hot – weather forecast, the only problem over the next few weeks could be suppliers running out of stock of items that garden centres are selling...
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Surge in the sales of watering products
 
The hot weather has been good news for Hozelock, who have eight lines in the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart, including three re-entries and two new entries...
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Proposed garden centre in Dunblane could provide 50 jobs
More than 50 jobs could be heading to Dunblane if garden centre plans that include proposals for new affordable and retirement housing get the go ahead...
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Garden Re-Leaf name the day for 2014
Garden Re-leaf Day 2014 – the day that kick-starts the garden centre sales season  – will be Friday 14 March...



The Garden Re-Leaf team get ready to reveal the total funds raised at the 2013 event.
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The GCA announces best in area winners
The GCA has this week revealed the Best in Area garden centre winners at four awards presentation evenings – North Thames, North East and North West, Midlands, and Wales and the West...
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Endsleigh pick up GCA Wales and West award


Endsleigh Garden & Leisure won Best Destination Garden Centre at the GCA Wales and West area awards...
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Preston buddies pedal 60 miles to the GIMAs...what a topping idea!
Barton Grange MD Guy Topping and Westland regional sales manager Simon Mullholland cycled 60 miles from Preston to Leeds to attend the GIMA Awards on Thursday...





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Millbrook's loyalty programme signs up 18,000 members
 
The Millbrook Garden Company’s recently launched loyalty programme has signed up more than 18,000 members with Managing Director Tammy Woodhouse admitting she was delighted with the response...
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Stagecraft back in full production


The completion of a major order for Waitrose is a signal that leading design and shopfit business Stagecraft is back in full production after a disastrous fire gutted their factory in March...
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Notcutts Garden Centre in Surrey shocked by cash box robbery
 
An "extremely shocking" daylight robbery took place at a Notcutts Garden Centre in Surrey as a cash box was being loaded into a van...
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Organisers flesh out plans for new-look Glee


Above: Matthew Mein and Dan Thurlow reveal a provisional layout for Glee 2014.

GIMA Awards attendees have been given a sneak preview of radical proposals to rejuvenate Glee...


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Essex Garden Centre Scoops UK Cake Award

‘The Garden Cafe’ at Craft Nurseries in Essex has won The Tea Room Cake Award at The Cake Awards UK 2013 on July 17th up against major supermarkets and top UK chefs...

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Congratulations to GCA winners from Garden Radio


The Poplars team are so proud of winning their GCA North Thames Award they already have a new announcement playing on Garden Radio telling their customers...
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