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Heavy rain dampens sales at garden centres
GTN Bestsellers Epos data analysis
After the heatwave came a weekend of heavy rain and thunderstorms and guess what, sales from garden centres dipped, but they are still ahead of any of the previous four years sales for the same August week...
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Face masks from Global Journey are a garden centre bestseller
GTN Promotion
There's more good news for the range of Global Journey Face Masks. After eight weeks of incredible sales of Face Masks, Global Journey have been listening to their customers and are delighted to announce the launch of 8 new plain designs to add to the range...
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Cowell’s embraces back-to-school photo opportunity
After the longest school break in living memory, the inaugural back-to-school photo, traditionally taken on the front doorstep, is going to be more important than ever. So Cowell’s have launched a campaign to help customers get their front doors looking #FirstDayPhotoReady...
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Taking face mask fashion to a new level
GTN Xtra Promotion
History & Heraldry have followed up their phenomenal selling Face Mask range with a new Snood Mask just in time for the Autumn months...
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Introducing Glee Gathering, 15-16 Sept 2020
Glee Gathering is a unique two-day digital experience designed to inspire whilst engaging buyers and connecting our community together. The Glee Gathering will host a virtual showroom of our exhibitors, engaging product showcases, exclusive content sessions and panel discussions, a platform to connect buyers and suppliers in a one-to-one environment, and the 2020 New Product Awards. All from the comfort of your home or office.
Read more and register for the Glee Gathering
Glee New Product Awards hosted by GTN
The Glee New Product Awards are back, albeit virtually, and hosted by Trevor Pfeiffer, Director of Garden Trade News. Each year the Glee New Product Awards offer brands the opportunity to pitch their latest product to an expert line up of judges who will choose the best product in each show sector. This year however, you get to see the process...
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Plant sales up by 40% despite the rain
Plant sales suffered last weekend with heavy rain deterring people from going out into uncovered planterias. Sales, however, were up 40% on the same week last year...
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Lawn seed sales up five-fold this summer
Lawn seed sales went through the roof in June and July, extending the traditional springtime peak in lawncare category sales well into the summer, according to the latest figures released by Johnsons Lawn Seed, the UK’s oldest grass seed supplier...
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Customers saddened by garden centre closure
The imminent closure of a popular South Yorkshire garden centre has been met with shock and sadness by customers. Fosters Garden Centre in the village of Thrybergh near Rotherham is set to shut down at the end of October...
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HTA AGM 2020 goes virtual
The Annual General Meeting of the Horticultural Trades Association will take place ‘virtually’ this year. The online meeting will be conducted via webinar on 16 September 2020 at 2pm.
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Glee New Product Awards hosted by GTN
The Glee New Product Awards are back, albeit virtually, and hosted by Trevor Pfeiffer, Director of Garden Trade News. Each year the Glee New Product Awards offer brands the opportunity to pitch their latest product to an expert line up of judges who will choose the best product in each show sector. This year however, you get to see the process...
Read more and find out how to enter
Garden products back to 9% down on volume
Garden Product sales, as measured by the GTN Bestsellers Top 50 from garden centre epos data, are now only 9% down on last year for sales volume. Quite an amazing position considering we recorded zero sales for what would normally be seven peak weeks when garden centres closed for the Covid 19 pandemic...
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83% average weekly increase since re-opening for growing media
While the heavy rain and thunderstorms put some people off going to garden centres, those that did were still invested in buying growing media. As a result sales for last week were up 93% on the same week last year...
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Tong Garden Centre invests in e-learning for team development
Tong Garden Centre has partnered with world leading e-learning provider SAP Litmos to provide a wealth of learning and development opportunities that will benefit people at all levels in the 181-strong team...
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Feeders, hedgehogs and mealworms...big movers in Wild Bird Care sales chart
There were some big movers in the GTN Wild Bird Care Top 50 chart last week with squirrel proof feeders, hedgehog food, decorative feeders and mealworm products among them...
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AIPH announces Virtual International Horticultural Expo Conference
The AIPH Virtual Expo Conference on 30 September presents an excellent opportunity to learn more about hosting or being involved with an International Horticultural Expo and to network with expo organisers, city representatives interested in hosting an expo, urban developers, AIPH members, NGOs, international city and environmental organisations and suppliers to major events...
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
Plants just keep on selling
Have you ever known a time when plant sales went up in the second week of August? And up by 66% on the same week last year?...
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Pop up showroom in Edinburgh for garden centre buyers
Scottish Agents, Darran McBride and Lucy Sharp have taken the initiative for their Scottish retailers to set up a socially distanced, by invitation only, pop up showroom in Edinburgh until next Thursday (August 27)...
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Garden centre extension plans approved
Two garden centres – Raemoir in Aberdeenshire and Beckworth Emporium in Northamptonshire – have both had plans for extensions approved...
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Tong marks five years of ownership with further changes
With the latest phase of its expansion progressing well, the team at the Bradford centre have announced further plans to enhance the visitor experience...
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Garden centre re-opens after suspected arson attack
A Norfolk garden centre, hit by a suspected arson attack which caused £5,000 of damage, was hoping to re-open again this weekend...
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Garden Centre Photo Tours
If you've missed one of our popular photo tours of garden centres then click on the links below:
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
Haskins Garden Centre in Snowhill, Crawley, has opened its doors to customers following a 12-month refurbishment costing £15m...
Read more and see GTN Xtras photo tour of the new centre
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