In This Issue
Festive videos to push poinsettia sales right up to the big day
Meadow View Stone can fulfil your Rock Salt requirements
West Midlands garden centre site sold for £2.5m
Want inspiration to develop your retailing over the next few years?
Nicholas Marshall looks to buy Homebase
Blustery weather fails to blow November sales off course
Social media proves a big success for customer voting
LeisureGrow Group enhances sales force with new appointments
GCA garden centres sparkle with Christmas displays
Are You Still Loving Your Plot?
Support the Greenfingers runners in the London Santa Run today
Voting postcards and posters for in-store voting - The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Team
Ernest Charles takes to the air this winter
Vote for your Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year
Book your tickets for GTN’s Greatest Christmas Party
Horticultural Trainer - Epsom, Surrey
Bedding Department Head - West Horsley
Plant Area Manager - Surrey
Key Accounts Manager – Outdoor Living
Bedding Department Head - Twickenham
Garden Centre Sundries Team Leader
Head of Sales
Nursery Production/Growing/Technical Manager
Bedding Department Head - Stanmore
Field Sales Support (Vivid Arts Ltd) - ideal location East / South Manchester with access to M60
Garden Centre/Horticultural Manager/Plantarea Manager
Contracts Manager Leeds Area
Comedian Hal Cruttenden to compere GCA dinner
Solar lighting sales dim as Christmas takes over
Sweet, sparkly and lit for Christmas sales success
Bark and small packs keep growing media sales at a high level
HTA helps to support horticulture in Scotland
Gardman supports Healthy Profits Roadshow
New campaign co-ordinator for Love the Plot You’ve Got
Early bird tickets on sale now for AIPH International Grower of the Year Awards 2016
Real Christmas tress rush set to commence this weekend
Writtle College team all set for Young Gardeners of the Year 2016
Young gardeners welcome apple tree home
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Festive videos to push poinsettia sales right up to the big day


With two full weekends to go until the big day it’s crunch time for serious seasonal promotion. Stars for Europe, the pan-European poinsettia campaign have been busy with a range of projects all aimed at helping you sell more. But this time they just want you to sit back and let yourself be inspired by their range of videos...
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Meadow View Stone can fulfil your Rock Salt requirements
With the bad weather approaching fast many Garden Centres will be assessing their requirements for Rock Salt. Meadow View Stone supply Garden Centres with either pure White Marine or pure traditional Pink Road Salt, both of which have not been diluted by blending in any grit or sand...
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West Midlands garden centre site sold for £2.5m


The site of former Woolmans Garden Centre in Shirley, Solihull, has been sold at auction for £2.5 million. It had been marketed as a prime residential development opportunity (subject to planning)...
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Want inspiration to develop your retailing over the next few years?


The HTA in association with Garden Trade News are arranging an inspirational Study Tour to the Netherlands in February 2016 that will include the 6,000 sq metre concept garden centre at The Tuinzaken Garden Retail Experience in Boskoop, and there is still some very limited availability for this opportunity...
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Nicholas Marshall looks to buy Homebase


Nicholas Marshall, the retail executive responsible for turning around the Garden Centre Group, is said by the Financial Times to be preparing a bid to buy the Homebase DIY and garden centre business from Home Retail Group PLC...
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Blustery weather fails to blow November sales off course


Wet and windy weather took the edge off sales volumes for the last week in November, according to GTN Bestsellers EPoS data, but aggregates for the month are still the best in three years and Christmas Products sales are still on course for a record year...
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Social media proves a big success for customer voting
 
On-line votes are pouring in from customers as they support their garden centre teams in the quest to become The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Team of the Year...
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LeisureGrow Group enhances sales force with new appointments


In response to a growing customer base and increased brands within the group, LeisureGrow Group has increased its sales team, with five new industry specialists joining the LeisureGrow family...
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GCA garden centres sparkle with Christmas displays
The regional winners of the Garden Centre Association’s annual Christmas display competition have been revealed. Fifteen garden centres have been named as having the best overall Christmas displays in their individual regions.



Squires Badshot Lea were winners in the South Thames region.
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Are You Still Loving Your Plot?
 
Ten months on from the first “Love the Plot You’ve Got” Masterclasses for garden centre teams, seven new Masterclass dates have been announced for Spring 2016...
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Support the Greenfingers runners in the London Santa Run today


Members of the garden industry are taking part in the London Santa Run which takes place today, 6th December, in Victoria Park...
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Voting postcards and posters for in-store voting - The Greatest Christmas Garden Centre Team
  

Voting is now underway and runs through to 4:00 pm on Christmas Eve to find out which garden centre has The Greatest Christmas Team...
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Ernest Charles takes to the air this winter


As winter sets in, Gardman is promoting its premium wild bird care brand, The Ernest Charles Co. with a highly engaging consumer PR campaign...
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Vote for your Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year


As part of The Greatest Christmas Awards, garden centres get the chance to vote for the supplier they feel has been their Greatest Christmas Supplier of the Year...
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Book your tickets for GTN’s Greatest Christmas Party


Tickets are now on sale for GTN’s The Greatest Christmas Awards Party, sponsored by Premier Decorations.Come and join us for the party of the year in Harrogate on Sunday 10th January 2016...
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