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Bents, Fron Goch and Poppies Oban strike gold in GTN's Greatest Team of the Year Awards
Smart and Westland are voted Greatest Award winners
Christmas gets October trade off to a flying start
Premier announces sad loss of Halloween General Manager, Sean Looney
Apta plans to invest £3.5m to grow its business in Ashford
HTA Garden Futures challenges the industry to capitalise on opportunity by embracing change
Clematis champion Raymond Evison awarded Pearson Medal
SBM Life Science recruiting new talent
The future for garden machinery is cordless…
Santa's spectacular arrival at Squire's Garden Centres
In with the new for Grange Fencing
Plant nursery helps local charity after break in
Ben's Guinness Record bean is longest amid sabotage claim at Mr Fothergill's
Spook-tacular Halloween events at Wyevale Garden Centres
Area Sales Managers
Brand Manager
Sales representative, South East
Nursery Grower Technical Manager
Garden Centre General Manager
Garden Sundries Retail Manager (Northamptonshire)
Horticultural Quality Controller
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Garden Products down year on year despite high plant sales
Christmas product sales off to a flier
Bark and top soil sell in big numbers
Autumn colour drives plant sales up
Impressive roll-call of speakers lined up for GrowQuip
Thompson & Morgan appoints new National Sales Manager
Perennial CEO Richard Capewell to retire in Spring 2017
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
GTN's Greatest Awards 2016
All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
HTA study tour to Matthew Algie Roastery & Showroom
Cotswold Fayre expands its Chilled Operation
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Bents, Fron Goch and Poppies Oban strike gold in GTN's Greatest Team of the Year Awards
The presentation of GTN's Greatest Garden Centre Team Awards took place at the HTA Garden Futures dinner on Wednesday evening and Garden Centre Team of the Year golds went to Bents (large centres), Fron Goch (mid-sized) and Poppies of Oban (small).

The Greatest Garden Centre Customer Service Team of the Year, sponsored by Elho

Finalists:

  • Aylett Nurseries
  • Barton Grange
  • Bents
  • Burston
  • Coolings
  • Fron Goch
  • Mains of Drum
  • Perrywood
  • Scotsdales Cambridge
  • Squires Badshot Lea
 

Gold Award - Barton Grange (above)
Silver Award - Aylett Nurseries (below)
Bronze Award - Fron Goch



The Greatest Garden Care Retail Team of the Year, sponosred by Briers

Finalists:
  • Aylett Nurseries
  • Barton Grange
  • Baytree
  • Burston
  • Coolings
  • Cowells
  • Fron Goch
  • Haskins Ferndown
  • Scotsdales Cambridge
  • Squires Badshot Lea


Gold Award - Haskins Ferndown (above)
Silver Award - Barton Grange (below)
Bronze Award - Coolings (above)




The Greatest Garden Centre Team of the Year, sponosred by the HTA.

Finalists:
  • Altons
  • Aylett Nurseries
  • Barton Grange
  • Bents
  • Burston
  • Castle Gardens
  • Chessington
  • Coolings
  • Cowells
  • Fresh@Burcot
  • Fron Goch
  • Green Pastures
  • Haskins Ferndown
  • Mains of Drum
  • Notcutts Woodford Park
  • Perrywood
  • Poppies Oban
  • Scotsdales Cambridge
  • Squires Badshot Lea
  • Timmermans
  • Trentham Blue Diamond
  • Woodside Plant Centre
The Greatest Garden Centre Team of the Year, Small Centre Team winners:
  • Gold Award - Poppies, Oban
  • Silver Award - Green Pastures, Norwich
  • Bronze Award - Fresh@Burcot Garden Centre

The Greatest Garden Centre Team of the Year, Mid-size Centre Team winners:

  • Gold Award - Fron Goch
  • Silver Award - Mains of Drum
  • Bronze Award - Timmermans

The Greatest Garden Centre Team of the Year, Large Centre Team winners

  • Gold Award - Bents (above)
  • Silver Award - Coolings (below)
  • Bronze Award - Squires Badshot Lea (below)

The next leg of The Greatest Awards for 2016 is The Greatest Marketing Team Awards  which will be presented at the HTA Marketing Forum on November 8th.  If you believe your marketing team are The Greatest then get your nomination in today to: trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk.  

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