In This Issue
HTA Conference leads on the value of plants
Record volume sales of Zero In Home Flea Killers
Corby + Fellas awarded Non-Retail Service Supplier of the year at the Choice Marketing Conference & Trade Show 2023
Choice Marketing brings RocketGro on board as Associate Supplier
Dobbies opens largest-ever store at The Junction, Antrim
MorePeople win Team of the Year at FPC Fresh Awards
The AMES Companies’ gearing up for first delivery of new-for-2024 stock
Extensive peat free trials at Bransford Webbs
New Value of Plants Report sets out the role of UK environmental horticulture in growing a greener future
Winners announced for 2023 Grower of the Year Awards
Kyle wins Young Grower of the Year Award
Stan Green awarded Pearson Memorial Medal 2023
10,000 customers join garden centre's loyalty programme
Raymond Evison Clematis confirm Chelsea sponsorship
British Garden Centres host VIP Christmas launch events
CJ Wildlife and Hillier Garden Centres to help customers care for Britain’s wildlife with new retail partnership
Johnsons advises retailers to take advantage of the fake lawn backlash
Dobbies spreads Christmas cheer with real tree donations
Yorkshire Garden Centre group donates from Kindness Pot to community groups and charities
The Pot Place Garden Centre off to Ukraine again
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Get your copy of GTN Xtra
HTA urges action and clarity from Government
Spear & Jackson introduces Brand Ambassador, Rekha Mistry
Keukenhof gardeners kick off 75th planting season
Six Plantipp varieties awarded at GrootGroenPlus 2023
Yorkshire Garden Centre group sponsors blogger awards
The best of last week's
Smart, Allensmore, Corby+Fellas, Leisuregrow & Langs are winning suppliers at Choice Marketing
Certikin takes control of Bermuda
Bramblecrest partners with Dormy House Hotel & Spa to launch new ‘Bramblecrest Back Garden’ Concept
The Old Railway Line Garden Centre and Three Cocks Matters Collaborate for a Colourful Spring
Charles Taylor offers Two-Seater Bench at original price
HEX Living Golf Day success at JCB Golf & Country Club
Buy your subscription to the GTN Bestsellers printed weekly newsletter
GIMA New Product Digest Autumn 2023
Situations Vacant
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
 

Every week GTN receives and analyses epos data from a number of UK garden centres to produce the GTN Bestsellers charts...

Read more»
GTN Bestsellers
Buy your subscription to the GTN Bestsellers printed weekly newsletter
 
Buy your GTN Bestsellers Subscription here
Send us your news and great ideas

Contact us with your news.

Email trevor@pottingshedpress.co.uk or call the GTN News team on 07973 504214

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


HTA Conference leads on the value of plants

The value of plants was the highlight of the HTA Conference held in Birmingham last week.

 

Research carried out by the HTA revealed that the retail value of plants and trees totalled £2.7 billion in 2022, with £2.2 billion spent on plants for outdoors and £500 million on houseplants.  Garden Centres accounted for 51% of all outdoor plant sales and 36% of all houseplant sales...

Read more and see photos from the conferenc and the Grower of the Year Awards dinner
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
Record volume sales of Zero In Home Flea Killers
GTN Xtra Promotion

Record volume sales increases of Zero In Home Flea Killers have followed the warmest early-Autumn weather on record and a surge in domestic infestations of cat and dog fleas...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
Corby + Fellas awarded Non-Retail Service Supplier of the year at the Choice Marketing Conference & Trade Show 2023
GTN Xtra Promotion

 

 

 

We are delighted to announce that Corby + Fellas received an unexpected award at the Choice Marketing Gala dinner: Non-Retail Service Supplier of the year...

 

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
Choice Marketing brings RocketGro on board as Associate Supplier
GTN Xtra Promotion

The leading buying and marketing group has signed RocketGro as an Associate Supplier with immediate effect, connecting its garden centre members with the Somerset manufacturer’s game-changing growing media products.

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
Dobbies opens largest-ever store at The Junction, Antrim

Dobbies has officially opened its largest ever store at The Junction Retail and Leisure Park. The 110,000sq ft flagship store is Dobbies’ second venture in Northern Ireland and has created 120 new jobs, making it one of the largest employers within the Antrim and Newtownabbey borough.

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
MorePeople win Team of the Year at FPC Fresh Awards

MorePeople has won Team of the Year 2023 at the FPC Fresh Awards held at the Marriott Grosvenor Hotel in London...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
The AMES Companies’ gearing up for first delivery of new-for-2024 stock

The AMES Companies is about to see its multi-million-pound investment at its Pollington site in East Yorkshire come to fruition as its updated 60,000sq ft warehouse welcomes the first delivery of 2024 stock...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
Extensive peat free trials at Bransford Webbs

The Bransford Webbs Plant Company are developing a sustainable pathway to a peat free future. During 2023 over 50% of our range has been trialed successfully in peat free compost, and a quarter of a million liners from our propagation unit were grown in peat free. ..

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (1)
New Value of Plants Report sets out the role of UK environmental horticulture in growing a greener future

The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) has launched a new two-part report, 'The Value of Plants' at Horticulture, The Conference. The new reports 'From Nursery to Nature' and ‘Delivering the Environmental Improvement Plan through the Value of Plants' set out the evidence and industry asks to secure this value...

 

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
Winners announced for 2023 Grower of the Year Awards

The Horticultural Trades Association has announced the winners of the 2023 Grower of the Year Awards...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
Kyle wins Young Grower of the Year Award
 

Production Manager at Wyevale Nurseries Kyle Ross has been presented with the Young Grower (under 35) of the Year Award at this year’s HTA Conference...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
Stan Green awarded Pearson Memorial Medal 2023

The 2023 Pearson Memorial Medal for outstanding service to the garden industry has been awarded to Stan Green, Director of Growforth Ltd, Chairman of Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) Scotland Policy Development Group and former President of the HTA...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
10,000 customers join garden centre's loyalty programme

Perrywood Garden Centres, located in Tiptree, Essex, and Sudbury, Suffolk, has launched a new loyalty programme called ‘Perrywood Bloom’. In just one month 10,000 customers have already signed up...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
GIMA New Product Digest Autumn 2023

 

 

 

The GIMA New Product Digest Autumn 2023 is now available to read on-line. 

Read the On-line edition here
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
Raymond Evison Clematis confirm Chelsea sponsorship
 

Raymond Evison Clematis has announced that Fenchurch Advisory Partners is once again sponsoring the Chelsea Flower Show Exhibit at the 2024 show...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
British Garden Centres host VIP Christmas launch events

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas for British Garden Centres. With festive fun brewing in the air, stores started to get excited for the most magical time of the year by hosting a number of successful VIP events across the UK last month...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
CJ Wildlife and Hillier Garden Centres to help customers care for Britain’s wildlife with new retail partnership

Wildlife specialist brand CJ Wildlife has announced its partnership with  Hillier Garden Centres, one of the leading names in growing and horticultural retail...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
Johnsons advises retailers to take advantage of the fake lawn backlash

Johnson's Lawn Seed, the oldest lawn seed brand in the UK, is encouraging retailers to communicate with disillusioned customers to recommend natural grass as a viable alternative and a tangible contribution to environmental preservation...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
Dobbies spreads Christmas cheer with real tree donations

Dobbies is spreading Christmas joy to local schools and nursery groups across the country with real tree donations as part of its Not Your Average Community campaign, in partnership with sustainable real tree grower, Needlefresh...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
Yorkshire Garden Centre group donates from Kindness Pot to community groups and charities

A ‘Kindness Pot' set up by a Bradford-based garden centre group has supported 22 local groups and donated over £1,000 in the last six months...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
The Pot Place Garden Centre off to Ukraine again

The Pot Place Garden Centre leaves for Ukraine again next Tuesday 10th October – this time with an ambulance, a 4x4 and three paramedic motorcycles...

Read more»
Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)