In This Issue
Garden centre sales increase despite all other retail re-opening
Join the Fun of #FloralFriday and Support Children in Hospices
Anything and everything being purchased for the garden
Royal visit sends garden centre media coverage into the stratosphere
Blue Diamond report £14.4m profit from 42% increased sales of £181.6m
Pots are the key to lockdown gardening
Garden Centres are Top of the Polls for retail visits
Small bags of growing media up by 207%
#FloralFriday To Celebrate Children’s Hospice Week
Sell Online Quickly, Easily and Cost-Effectively with GrowNation
spoga+gafa still pressing ahead for September show
LifestyleGarden® revamps showroom to help retailers maximise sales in 2020 and beyond
The Retail Mutual launches #OpenForBusiness campaign to support independents
Dahlia Sincerity wins FleuroStar Award 2020
Apple Trinity is crowned Best in Show
Apple ‘Trinity’ wins Best in Show at HTA New Plant Awards
Allensmore Nurseries scoops a record number of awards at the HTA Virtual New Plant Awards 2020.
Plant Area General Assistant
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Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Fund created for Westland accident victims family
Good plant sales prospects for the summer
Neil Cochrane joins Fallen Fruits
Veg 2 Gro up by 42% since re-opening
Gardenex and PetQuip organise second e-commerce webinar
The best of last week's
Man dies at Westland factory in Dungannon
Marlows , Bury St Edmunds, to close due to Coronavirus trading conditions
Year on year sales deficit halved in four weeks
Fire at Cooks Garden Centre
Socially Distanced plant sales up by 40%
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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Virtual Petindex proves to be a success
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Garden centre sales increase despite all other retail re-opening

Top line analysis of the GTN Bestsellers Epos data for the week starting Monday 15th June, the date when all of retail was allowed to re-open, shows an increase in volume sales of 6% on the previous week and an increase of 39% on the same week last year...

 

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Join the Fun of #FloralFriday and Support Children in Hospices

As this week is Children’s Hospice Week, Greenfingers Charity urges you and your business to take part in #FloralFriday and highlight the work it does in children’s hospices across the UK...

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Anything and everything being purchased for the garden

It really does seem that people are buying anything and everything they can to enjoy their garden during the crisis.  Let’s hope suppliers and growers can keep up the great work so that the garden centre shopping experience can continue to be safe and satisfying...

 

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Royal visit sends garden centre media coverage into the stratosphere

The Duchess of Cambridge chose her local garden centre, Fakenham Garden Centre, as her first choice for an official visit last week and as a result media coverage of UK garden centres has spread world wide.

 

"We've had phone calls from media outlets as far afield as the USA and Australia since the visit and plenty of enquiries to ask what items were purchased..."

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Blue Diamond report £14.4m profit from 42% increased sales of £181.6m
 

"Success is delivered by being strategically ahead of your competitors and ensuring that you position yourself through qualitative points of difference to be the first and most loyal choice of your customer. Blue Diamond operates to that standard..."

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Pots are the key to lockdown gardening

During the second week of June this year sale of pots and pot feet in the GTN Top 50 were 175% higher than last year...

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Garden Centres are Top of the Polls for retail visits

Garden Centres are still the stores people say they feel most comfortable returning to, according to results of a YouGov poll...

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Small bags of growing media up by 207%

This weeks GTN Bestsellers sales analysis shows a high number of “small” bag sales as customers buy whatever growing media they can get their hands on to feed their gardening activity.  In the GTN Bestsellers chart for the second week of June 2020, 51% of the growing media volume sold was in bags of 40 litres or less.  That is a 207% increase compared to the same week last year when only 38% was sold in “small” bags...

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#FloralFriday To Celebrate Children’s Hospice Week

Supporters of Greenfingers Charity once again spread a little #FloralFriday cheer by sharing photos of beautiful British Flowers or fabulous floral shirts, dresses, and shoes on social media on Friday (19th June)...

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Sell Online Quickly, Easily and Cost-Effectively with GrowNation

GrowNation has announced a new series of service tiers to help garden centres get online with the features and pricing structure that best suits their individual needs...

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Virtual Petindex proves to be a success

Hundreds of visitors logged on to the UK’s first virtual trade show, Virtual Petindex, over its two live days from 14-15 June...

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spoga+gafa still pressing ahead for September show

The team organising spoga+gafa in Cologne have sent a letter to all exhibitors and potential visitors about their determination for the event to go ahead in September 2020.

 

"Let’s push-start your business together and enable the best possible opportunities for a successful sector restart..."

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LifestyleGarden® revamps showroom to help retailers maximise sales in 2020 and beyond

LifestyleGarden® – one of the UK’s leading outdoor leisure brands– is taking significant steps to ensure that retailers can maximise this sales potential, including a complete revamp of its showroom to help fill the void left by the cancellation of several trade exhibitions...

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The Retail Mutual launches #OpenForBusiness campaign to support independents

The Retail Mutual has launched a social media campaign to support retailers return to business...

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Dahlia Sincerity wins FleuroStar Award 2020

Fleuroselect, the international organisation for the ornamental plants industry, is proud to announce that the FleuroStar Award 2020/21 goes to Dahlia Sincerity from Syngenta Flowers...

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Apple Trinity is crowned Best in Show
 

 

 

Apple ‘Trinity’ from Frank P Matthews has been crowned Best in Show at the HTA New Plant Awards 2020...

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Apple ‘Trinity’ wins Best in Show at HTA New Plant Awards

A new variety of apple, launched this summer by Frank P Matthews, has won Best in Show at the HTA Virtual New Plant Awards...

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Allensmore Nurseries scoops a record number of awards at the HTA Virtual New Plant Awards 2020.

Allensmore Nurseries, has achieved a record number of ten awards at this year’s HTA Virtual New Plant Awards, including Gold & Best in Category for Penstemon Pristine Lila Purple...

 

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