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Revealed: The Top 100 Most-Read Stories of 2013
The changes of 2013 will reverberate through 2014...
Record year for 'concessions' within garden centres
Who called it right for this year?
Floods force Winnersh Garden Centre to close over festive period
Proposed new garden centre would create 300 jobs
Sponsors sought for sea front challenge
Council row over proposed £6m Next Home and Garden Store
GIMA announces dates of Awards and Golf Day
GCA E-learning modules show how to sell Christmas trees
The power of GTN Bestsellers' insider knowledge
Mr Fothergill's to back RHS GYO campaign for third year
Buy your tickets for GTN's Greatest Christmas Party
The winners of The Greatest Christmas Awards 2013 will be announced next Sunday
Hellebore is plant of the month
New deals on Gardman’s No Mess Seed Mix
Award success for Huddersfield-based landscapers
Garden centres invited to compete for Worrall Cup
Cause of Blooms Garden Centre blaze unknown
More pictures of Garden Centre Christmas displays than have ever been published before
Kings to donate poppy proceeds to charities
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Revealed: The Top 100 Most-Read Stories of 2013


It has been a momentus year for the industry with the garden centre landscape changing almost weekly.

As a result there have been plenty of stories – a staggering 2,700 in total – for GTN Xtra to report on, and it's hardly surprising to discover that the most-read stories have involved people changing jobs and garden centres changing hands.

Over the course of 2013 GTN Xtra has grown in popularity with 78% of the email database now opening stories published in the weekly enewsletter.

Using the data we collect weekly, we have come up with the Top 100 Most-Read Stories of 2013 (see below). If you've missed any of these stories just click on those of interest (one at a time) to see them in full or search the GTN Xtra Archive using the link at the top of the page.

Top 100 Most-Read Stories of 2013

1

Directors Leave Gardman

2

Statement from Nick Davies, Managing Director Solus Garden & Leisure

3

James Barnes and Sharon Brown leave Dobbies

4

Westland to back Nick Davies's new venture

5

Breaking News: Solus appoints Mark Pearson as new CEO

6

What's happening at Solus?

7

The Garden Centre Group loses four more top managers

8

Garden Centre Group buy Garden & Leisure

9

How 'showrooming' is impacting on garden centre sales

10

Sinclair pull out of wholesalers

11

Is Andrew West's departure from The Garden Centre Group just the start of more managers leaving?

12

It's all change in the Wild West...

13

What next for The Garden Centre Group?

14

€12m turnover for new garden centre with no outside planteria

15

High Profile TGCG Regional Manager reveals leaving date

16

Breaking News: Notcutts buy Sussex garden centre Garden Pride

17

Notcutts boss Andy King quits to join Tesco's

18

EU pesticide ban decision imminent?   

19

Garden Centre Group on cost-cutting trail

20

Dobbies fined for polluting Cumbrian stream with sewage

21

New executive at TGCG will "need to love and be comfortable with change"

22

Garden Centre's Easter TV and Radio Spectacular

23

The Garden Centre Group announces two new executive appointments

24

Dobbies Kings Lynn - Picture Exclusive

25

Barton Grange Bolton bought by The Garden Centre Group

26

The Garden Centre Group continues to re-structure its senior management

27

Warning over garden centre scams

28

The Garden Centre Group announces changes to its executive team

29

Blooms Garden Centre in Cardiff gutted by massive blaze

30

Waitrose Garden Centre - picture exclusive

31

Solus strike a new deal with Marriages

32

Weekend White Out

33

More re-structuring expected at The Garden Centre Group

34

Second Longacres centre will compete with nearby Squires

35

Garden & Leisure Group: 'We don't comment on rumours,' say TGCG

36

Garden & Leisure MD to leave after takeover

37

But TGCG remains tight-lipped over departures from the company

38

Wedding promise clinches garden centre deal as British Garden Centres add eighth site

39

Ex-Tesco man to manage Bents store

40

Two men killed by garden centre wall

41

New marketing head and agency for Solus

42

Good Friday - how was it for you?

43

Highgate Garden Centre set to close within a fortnight

44

Gardman founder Natar takes majority stake in Smart Solar

45

Vivid Arts takes Tom Chambers to court over copyright infringement

46

Essex garden centre to close after 50 years in business

47

The challenges facing Solus as new CEO takes over

48

TV star Alex Polizzi fixes it for Oak Garden Centre

49

Ex-Waitrose executive in charge of the UK's biggest gardening club

50

Cornish company wants your old plant pots...

51

Oldest garden centre manager Phyllis Self dies aged 105

52

Hawley Garden Centre will again open on Easter Sunday

53

SpaceandPeople win five-year deal with The Garden Centre Group

54

Scotsdales aim to double turnover at Notcutts acquisition

55

Mark Pearson steps down as Gardman CEO

56

Fermoy's Garden Centre to be taken over by Blue Diamond?

57

NEXT group heads for 12 home & garden stores

58

Garden centre defeats council's bid to restrict retail use

59

Wyevale Nurseries appoints new Sales and Marketing Director

60

One of the UK's largest garden centre retailers

61

Cold weather inspires new Hotspot idea at Altons

62

5 Top Tips from Harrogate Christmas & Gift Fair

63

Proposal of marriage in Santa's Grotto at the award-nominated Brookside Garden Centre

64

Garden centres told to keep an eye on stock levels

65

Work starts on £2 million garden centre

66

Car crashes through Aylsham Garden Centre in Norfolk

67

Notcutts complete sale to Scotsdales, redevelop Tunbridge Wells and look to add new centres this year

68

Hozelock grab top honour at GIMA Awards

69

GCA start the search for new Chief Executive

70

More pictures of Garden Centre Christmas displays than have ever been published before

71

Nick Davies' new venture will help Westland to expand

72

Dobbies Tesco Xtra at Inverness is an instant hit

73

Fears that Highgate Garden Centre will close down

74

STAX go after garden centres

75

Garden & Leisure complete Waitrose site sale

76

Chilli Willies are 'hot' news for chilli growers

77

The Garden Centre Group appoint M&S high-flyer as food and drinks guru

78

GIMA director Neil Gow resigns

79

Ex-Gardman man moves into a new role at Smart Solar

80

Sunday Trading Confusion Reigns

81

New sales team appointments and trade show success at Solus

82

Barton Grange and Planters grab GCA top honours

83

45 jobs saved as Whiteley's Garden Centre is bought

84

Garden Centre Group committed to growth says new CEO

85

Gardman becomes the latest company to appoint new man at the top

86

Gregg Wallace' is working at Whitehall Garden Centre...

87

Lechlade and Cheddar make it 132 for The Garden Centre Group

88

Millbrook's new centre is a thoroughbred

89

Award-winning garden centre up for sale

90

£15m development takes Sinclairs into the red

91

Dobbies in the news - fine upheld - new store aerial picture

92

New vision for Glee revealed

93

Sissons joins Briers as Trading Director

94

Proposed closure of Lancashire garden centre angers residents

95

Reinhard's Reindeer Rentals

96

Ruxley Food Hall is an instant sell out success

97

Two-storey re-development planned for Sunshine Garden Centre

98

Worlds Largest Orchid Grower Launches New Orchid Feed Product

99

HTA calls for change on Easter Sunday trading

100

New product that caught our eye at Glee

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