In This Issue
Whitehall acquire third centre with purchase of Woodborough
Gardman to move to new purpose-built warehouse in Daventry
Tears for supermarkets as gardeners plant more onions
Garden Re-Leaf Day - just 1 month away
Bestsellers features on The Sun's gardening podcast
Plant suppliers put on a stunning show at Squire’s
Westland set to make a big impact with TV advertising
Plaque unveiling marks historic anniversary of Notcutts
Millbrook looks to the future with succession planning
Make Gardman your one stop shop for Christmas
Notcutts raise over £1,000 for Thrive
Plant Assistant Manager
Plantaria Assistant – Lincoln
Garden Centre Manager
Sales Support Advisor - Amenity (Hampshire)
Amenity Account Manager South (Home Counties)
Plant Buyer (Essex)
Plantarea Department Head Seasonal Plants (Essex)
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Scotsdales launches Year of Charity Fundraisers
GIMA invests in trends content for members
Houseplants drive up sales of containers
Rhubarb outsells lettuce seeds – that’s official!
John Innes sows seeds of sales success
Snow slows plant sales in garden centres
Pictures from the Greatest Christmas Gold-winning teams
GROEN-Direkt’s Spring Fair: a promising start of the 2017 gardening season
Bord na Móna UK expands sales and marketing team
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Work on Groves Nurseries new restaurant set to start
Casual Dining announces record Innovation Challenge entries
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Plant Assistant Manager
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Plantaria Assistant – Lincoln
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Garden Centre Manager
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Sales Support Advisor - Amenity (Hampshire)
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Plant Buyer (Essex)
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Plantarea Department Head Seasonal Plants (Essex)
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Whitehall acquire third centre with purchase of Woodborough


Woodborough Garden Centre near Pewsey, Wiltshire, has been sold to the Whitehall Garden Centre Group. The acquisition gives Whitehall their third garden centre...
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Gardman to move to new purpose-built warehouse in Daventry
Kings Lynn facilities will close at the end of the year, with up to 150 possible job losses

Gardman announced on Friday that it is to close its Kings Lynn warehouses and re-locate in October to new purpose-built facilities in Daventry, Northants. Redundancy consultation has begun with the workforce of around 150...
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Tears for supermarkets as gardeners plant more onions


During a week when overall footfall dropped as a result of snow Primula sales grew to be 57% of all plant sales...
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Garden Re-Leaf Day - just 1 month away
Watch out for our Countdown to Garden Re-Leaf Day 2017 e-mail newsletters over the coming days.  There's only 27 days left to plan your FUNdraising activities for Friday 17th March and make the most of the start of the season. Watch this space!
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Bestsellers features on The Sun's gardening podcast
 
GTN Bestsellers analyst Trevor Pfeiffer has been interviewed by The Sun's columnist Peter Seabrook for his 'This Week in the Garden' podcast...
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Plant suppliers put on a stunning show at Squire’s


Squire’s Garden Centres held their annual “Supplier Plant Show” at West Horsley with suppliers coming from across the UK and abroad to showcase their latest plants...
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Westland set to make a big impact with TV advertising
 
Westland is set to make a big impact on TV this spring with a multi-million pound marketing campaign. Its TV advertised products have sold into retailers so well that Westland has upped its advertising spend to over £5m...
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Plaque unveiling marks historic anniversary of Notcutts


A historic blue plaque has been unveiled at the home of Roger Crompton Notcutt, who founded Notcutts Garden Centres 120 years ago.
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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Work on Groves Nurseries new restaurant set to start


Work on a new restaurant at Groves Nurseries & Garden Centre in Bridport, Dorset, is set to start on Monday...
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Casual Dining announces record Innovation Challenge entries
Casual Dining show, which returns to the Business Design Centre, in London, next week on 22-23 February, has announced a record 40 entries for its Innovation Challenge Awards, which recognises the best products and solutions launched in the casual dining sector over the last twelve months...
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Millbrook looks to the future with succession planning


With the task of finding the right staff getting harder each year, Millbrook Garden Company has introduced a company succession plan for the next five years...
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Make Gardman your one stop shop for Christmas
 
Gardman have launched a glittering collection of best-selling Christmas lines to help drive volume sales throughout garden centres for Christmas 2017…
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Garden Re-Leaf Day - just 1 month away
Watch out for our Countdown to Garden Re-Leaf Day 2017 e-mail newsletters over the coming days.  There's only 27 days left to plan your FUNdraising activities for Friday 17th March and make the most of the start of the season. Watch this space!
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Notcutts raise over £1,000 for Thrive


Colleagues and customers at Notcutts Garden Centre located in Nuneham Courtney (Oxfordshire) have raised over £1000 for charity Thrive, which enables positive change in the lives of disabled and disadvantaged people through gardening and horticulture, and is based in Beech Hill, near Reading, Berkshire...
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