In This Issue
Wyevale Garden Centres rumoured to have made £175m bid for Dobbies ahead of tomorrow's deadline
Who will buy Dobbies from Tesco? Newshound checks out runners and riders
Blue Diamond get set to buy Harlow Garden Centre
Scope for stockists to increase sales via up-selling with Meadow View Stones NEW POS
GIMA announces new Council at AGM
Happiness is just a few weeks of warmer weather away
Revealed: The Top 20 Bestselling Plants of the Week
Buyers flock to Groen-Direkt’s Spring Days
Woodborough and Honiton are ‘Pimp up’ winners
Town & Country go national with kids' glove design contest
Chichester College garden wins top award
How to win space on garden centre shelves
Soft Landscaping Contracts Manager
Junior Buyer: Garden Care
Garden Centre Assistant Manager (Hampshire)
Grounds Maintenance / Contracts Manager (North & Midlands)
Garden Centre Assistant Manager (East Sussex)
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Blue Diamond’s Stuart Whalley is promoted to Head of Product Development
Eureka! Solar Light Bulb is a bestseller
Cucumbers, beans and courgettes lead the way
Multipurpose compost keeps sales on a high
Wildlife World returns to major US exhibition
Flopro launches huge consumer media campaign
HTA National Plant Show – supporting Home Grown Plants
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Squire's Long Ditton centre gets a makeover
Matthew Algie launches Espresso Warehouse catalogue
Award-winning ice cream producer's new-look packaging
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Wyevale Garden Centres rumoured to have made £175m bid for Dobbies ahead of tomorrow's deadline


Wyevale Garden Centres are plotting a £175m takeover of Dobbies Garden Centres and have appointed Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs to assist in the bid, according to Sky News reports...
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Who will buy Dobbies from Tesco? Newshound checks out runners and riders
With the Grand National behind us, Newshound checks out the runners and riders in the great Dobbies Steeplechase now that Tesco has officially put the garden centre chain up for sale...
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Blue Diamond get set to buy Harlow Garden Centre


Blue Diamond are set to add to their portfolio of garden centres with the acquisiition of Harlow Garden Centre in Essex. It will become the 18th centre in the group...
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Scope for stockists to increase sales via up-selling with Meadow View Stones NEW POS
 

The need to inspire and educate the consumer to encourage spend has never been greater and with POS merchandising being an intrinsic part of this process Meadow View have re-designed their entire POS collection around this concept...

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GIMA announces new Council at AGM


More than 80 members attended the Garden Industry Manufacturers’ Association’s AGM at the Heart of England Conference and Events Centre where the organisation's new council was announced...
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Happiness is just a few weeks of warmer weather away


The rest of April and all of May needs to be good garden centre trading weather to make sure we stay ahead of last year’s sales levels.
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Revealed: The Top 20 Bestselling Plants of the Week
 
The Pelargonium is the top selling plant in garden centres this week, according to the first GTN Bestsellers Garden Plants chart...
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Buyers flock to Groen-Direkt’s Spring Days


Almost 500 growers presented their products to the visitors at Groen-Direkt’s Spring Days as in 2016, and hundreds of buyers inspected the alphabetically arranged products in the Dutch town of Boskoop...
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Squire's Long Ditton centre gets a makeover

Squire’s has invested £700,000 in extending and refurbishing its Long Ditton garden centre...



Above: the new Cafe Bar at Squire's Long Ditton.

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Matthew Algie launches Espresso Warehouse catalogue
The UK’s leading independent coffee roaster, Matthew Algie, is all set for summer with its 2016 Espresso Warehouse catalogue...
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Award-winning ice cream producer's new-look packaging


An ice cream manufacturer based in Acaster Malbis has collaborated with a York graphic designer to revamp the design for its range of ice cream pots. Fans of award-winning Yorvale ice cream will now be able to take home their favourite frozen treat packaged in a pot with a fresh new look.
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Woodborough and Honiton are ‘Pimp up’ winners
  

Roundup has announced the winners from the first round of 2016’s ‘Pimp up your Roundup’ – Woodborough Garden Centre and Honiton Garden Centre...
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Town & Country go national with kids' glove design contest
 

Town and Country have gone national with their children’s gardening glove competition, following the success of an inaugural project in their home county of Leicestershire...

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Chichester College garden wins top award


Chichester College inspired visitors the most at this year’s Ideal Home Show by picking up the Young Gardeners of the Year People’s Choice Award...
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How to win space on garden centre shelves


GIMA - in association with PP8 Marketing - is running a special one-day interactive workshop on May 10 designed to help manufacturers win valuable shelf space on the sales floor...
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