John Colley of the Warwick Business School in Australia said at the weekend: "This is one of the great all time disasters in the M&A world and it is against some very stiff competition. Both the strategy and the execution were disasters...”
After last years successful regional trade shows Westland and Crest are touring again with 3 UK dates and 1 in ROI. There will be cracking show offers, dramatic merchandising solutions, full details of our comms plans, technical experts, plus an exclusive preview of our 2019 New Product Development...
It’s time to start thinking about your customers hanging baskets and patio planters. Getting the compost right is key to creating beautiful displays that continue to flourish throughout the Summer months...
Bord na Móna Growise would like to congratulate John Everiss and Francesca Murrell winners of Silver Gilt medal for their design of The Myeloma UK Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018...
Bulldog Tools Childrens Premier Range is widely promoted at this years 2018 RHS Chelsea Flower Show and proudly supports the RHS Campaign for School Gardening...
As B&Q announced sales down by 9% for the first quarter, and Wesfarmers sell off Homebase for £1 after dreadful sales performances, garden centres across the UK are faring much better because of their core product line – plants...
Another booming week for plant sales sees the GTN Bestsellers Plant Sales Index rise not only to parity year on year but to an incredible 3.1% up on 2017 for the year to date...
Stanstead Park Garden Centre, formerley part of the Home & Garden Group, has been acquired by Paul Richards and Tim Mason and will be run under the Your Local Garden Centre brand, as a sister centre to Mappleborough Green Garden Centre...
With visitor registration now open for 2018, lunch! has released its first preview of some of the new Keynote speakers set to appear at the show over 20-21 September at London ExCeL...
Peter Clowes of SBM Life Sciences recently took up the challenge of running the Hackney Half Marathon with his family to raise money for Greenfingers Charity...
2018 marks the 10th Anniversary for Vitavia Garden Products Ltd and over the last decade Vitavia has become a major supplier to both the UK and European greenhouse markets.
Last year, to commemorate the first RHS Chatsworth Flower Show, Fryer’s Roses, part of the Blue Diamond group of garden centres, launched a new rose named in honour of the Duchess of Devonshire, which Chatsworth is the home of...
With all the e-mails floating around regarding GDPR, at GTN Xtra, we would like to assure you that our Data Processing policies remain the same in that we actively mange the security of data we hold and that we never share data with any third party unless prior permission has been granted...
Another record mid May week for Growing Media sales sees the GTN Bestellers year on year volume gap slim down to 6.8% on last year and sit at 4.2% up on the same point in 2016...
After dropping hints yesterday at The RHS Chelsea Flower Show that the business would be for sale within the next year, Guy Hands' Terra Firma has announced today that the garden centre group is officially up for sale...
"The Group is on course to surpass the budgeted £110m and I can see us being able to double the turnover and still retain those values." says MD Alan Roper as Blue Diamond publish their accounts for 2017...
“It was just like an old fashioned Bank Holiday Monday” enthused Sarah Squire to GTN Bestsellers this week as garden centre plants sales lead the way with a record high...
Johnny Walkers won his 25th consecutive Gold Medal for Taylors Bulbs this morning and there were also Gold Medals awarded in the Chelsea Flower Show Floral Pavillion for Hilliers, Dibleys and Cooks Garden Centre of Stourport (above) ...
Raoul Curtis-Machin is taking the opportunity to pursue a new challenge and will leave the HTA at the end of June...
