Smart Garden Products aim to be a major player in the marketplace
 Smart Garden Products launched an amazing 350 products at Glee last month and you can expect more from this fast-growing company as owner Paris Natar admits his ambition is to turn it into one of the major players in the gardening market...
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Dobbies opens new garden centre in Bar Hill, Cambridge
Dobbies Garden Centres has opened a new store in Bar Hill, Cambridge, to take its number of centres to 35, and follows the completion of a major revamp of the neighbouring Tesco store...
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Redwood Stone decides to sell its unique range of Kingfisher Ornamental Stone
Redwood Stone has decided to offer its unique range of Kingfisher Ornamental Stone, for sale in its entirety, including all moulds, masters and artwork...
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It has been a better than average year...by far
After that great start to 2014, the past few months have not been as good as last year and there has been a sense of: “if only it had been a really bumper year and sales had stayed up on last year all summer long.” But when you compare this year’s GTN Bestsellers Total Volume sales data to the monthly averages for the previous five years, the year really does take on bumper proportions...
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Family run garden centre installs solar – for free
Family-run Staunton Garden Centre near Tewkesbury has had 108 solar panels installed tree of charge under a solar power purchase scheme...
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Lighting and lawncare products driving sales
Signs of outdoor activity were in evidence in the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart with lighting and lawncare products selling well...
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LED art frames light up Christmas sales
LED canvas prints have taken the first GTN Bestsellers Christmas Products chart of the year by storm...
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Nominate your teams for The Greatest Christmas Awards 2014
 It’s that time of the year again. As you complete your Christmas Displays and start selling your Christmas events, now is the moment to nominate your teams in The Greatest Christmas Awards...
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Alexander Rose duo become jolly good Fellows
The managing director of outdoor furniture manufacturers Alexander Rose and the company's head of design have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts...
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Furniture and barbecues market topped £500 million in 2013
After falling in value terms in 2012, the UK garden leisure market started to recover last year, reaching more than £500 million, says a new report from AMA Research...
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GIMA and BHETA set up 'meet the buyer' day at Wyevale
GIMA and BHETA have joined forces for a ‘Meet the Buyer’ day with Wyevale Garden Centres...
Above: GIMA's meet-the-buyer event – Buyer Connect – at Glee was a popular success.
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Grow the trendy colours to stay ahead, urges nursery
Kernock Park Plants are encouraging garden centres to plan their 2015 collections in line with colour trend predicitons for the coming year...
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Dutch growers visit Hawkesmill Nurseries to study UK techniques
A study group of Dutch perennial growers has been visiting some of the leading UK growers, including Hawkesmill Nurseries near Kenilworth in Warwickshire, to find out how growing and marketing techniques vary across differing sectors of the market...
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Sinclair appoint research specialist to head up growing media
Leading horticultural researcher Dr Richard Gianfrancesco has been appointed growing media product manager by William Sinclair Horticulture....
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