Anyone who was expecting his week’s preliminary results from Tesco to throw clear light on the future of its Dobbies business will have been disappointed…or, at the very least, confused...
Two different visions of how to run and develop successful garden centre groups were presented at the GIMA Day Conference. Haskins CEO Julian Winfield runs a business built on clearly defined systems while Blue Diamond CEO Alan Roper believes growth comes best by empowering the local teams...
Garden centres are being urged to get involved with the inaugural National Children’s Gardening Week, scheduled for the last week of May. It's the brainchild of Neil Grant, MD of Ferndale Garden Centre near Sheffield...
April sunshine is encouraging people into action in their gardens, and sales at garden centres are up year on year since Easter 2015, according to GTN Bestsellers...
Weber have signed Tom and Henry Herbert of TV’s The Fabulous Baker Brothers: A Bite of Britain, to become the faces of their UK Summer campaign – a first for the barbecue brand...
A flower mosaic commemorating 70 years of liberation of the Netherlands by the Allied Forces was unveiled in Lincoln this week, outside Lincoln Cathedral...
Smart Garden Products have named Workforce Agencies Ltd as their winning sales team for 2014 for their performance in in the North West territory, headed by Sam Thornley...
Charles Campion, food critic and MasterChef judge, has been announced as the Keynote Speaker on day one of the HTA Catering Conference 2015, which takes place on June 9-10 at The Belfry, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands...
Over 9,200 natural and organic industry professionals were out in force last weekend, over 19-20 April, as ExCeL London was transformed into a vibrant showcase of the very best in natural and organic products at Natural & Organic Products Europe...
Plant foods, solar lights, bug killers and hanging basket products saw the biggest sales increases in the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart this week...
It should be a bumper year for home grown tomatoes. Nineteen of the Top 50 Veg-2-Gro lines are young tomato plants – two more than in the same week last year – and the sales volumes are up by 105%...
The Edible Garden Show returns to its launch venue – Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire – in 2016 after a two-year run at Alexandra Palace. It will run alongside the ‘Good Life Live’ lifestyle event.
Wildlife World, Europe’s leading designer and manufacturer of wildlife products, is heading to America for the very first time to exhibit at the National Hardware Show...
Weber have signed Tom and Henry Herbert of TV’s The Fabulous Baker Brothers: A Bite of Britain, to become the faces of their UK Summer campaign – a first for the barbecue brand...
Monkton Elm Garden Centre are looking to recruit a relief chef to assist them over the coming weeks in their new Elm Tree Restaurant...
