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In This Issue
New Year starts with 11% uplift
Millbrook Garden Centre: not a nightclub
Retailers gather customers for the Big Garden Birdwatch
IPM show increasingly popular for UK garden centres
Join in the Jubilee tree giveaway
Greatest Awards finalist spreads Christmas cheer
Rocket charged Veg sales
More Tree-mendous giveaways: Monkton Elm offer free saplings to worthy causes
Business as usual after storm lashed Olive Tree Café
Celebrating 50 years young with a new netXtra smartphone app
Camellia adds a splash of colour as February’s Plant of the Month
Poppleton Garden Centre expansion to create more jobs
Two New Pests enter the RHS Top Ten
Experts offer gardeners free advice on spuds
Oh what fun there is to have at The Greatest Christmas Awards party!
GTN Bestsellers Charts - epos data analysis every week
Get growing, get selling
Garden centres to attend Housewares Conference & Innovation Awards
Manor Garden Centre awaiting leads on double burglary
Topsoil-supplying garden centre to appear on ITV Business Club
Tastes of the world on the menu in East Fortune
Made Aware: the new trademark for green‚ outdoor furniture and barbecues
Webbs of Wychbold compile calendar for local hospices
New Directory of HTA Training and Business Development Events 2012
Gardman appoints a Product Standards Manager
GTN Bestsellers Chart Update
GTN Bestsellers Charts - epos data analysis every week
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Made Aware: the new trademark for green‚ outdoor furniture and barbecues
LOFA has officially launched its new environmental trademark, Made Aware. Suppliers to be awarded the coveted Made Aware label have to prove they are taking progressive action to reduce their environmental impact and to improve the welfare of the people who make their products. Each year these suppliers will have to show they are continuing to make a worthwhile improvement, and have to pass stringent testing by a panel of independent judges to ensure they can keep the prestigious Made Aware label.

To promote the Made Aware campaign, LOFA will be undertaking a tour of garden centres and retail outlets across the UK to highlight its members’ Made Aware products.

If you want to know more about the Made Aware campaign and the latest range of Made Aware labelled products, visit www.madeaware.org.uk.
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