As the deadline clicked over yesterday, 26th June 2018, for bids in the first round of the sale of 145 Wyevale Garden Centres by Terra Firma, GTN’s Trevor Pfeiffer met with CEO Roger McLaughlan for the first of what we hope will be a series of meetings to keep us all updated during the potentially lengthy sales process...
Rose Festivals across the country have provided a boost to sales and in the second week of June Roses climbed to No 3 in the GTN Bestsellers plants chart on the back of a 35% increase year on year...
Visitors to the HTA National Plant Show, sponsored by Hortipak, have voted Rose ‘Timeless Purple’ from Whartons Roses as Best in Show at the New Plant Awards...
Volume sales in garden centres have now closed back to within 2% of last year according to the EPOS data analysis of GTN Bestsellers. The second week of June saw volumes up by 7%. That means we've now had 8 weeks out of 9 that have been up year on year since the week after Easter...
Laburnum anagyroides Yellow Rocket® from Frank P Matthews has been crowned this year as Best in Show at the New Plant Awards on the opening morning of the HTA National Plant Show at Stoneleigh Park, Coventry...
Deroma, the world‘s leader in terracotta pottery located in the North of Italy, will be taken over most probably before the end of 2018 by a cooperation between two German companies, the Bavaria Industries Group AG (Baikap) and Scheurich GmbH & Co KG.
LeisureGrow Products Ltd has acquired the business interests of Petface out of administration. Key Petface personnel will be kept on by LeisureGrow Products Ltd, and the Petface brand will be run out of LeisureGrow Products Ltd’s head office in Hinxworth, Hertfordshire. Petface stock will be centralised in LeisureGrow’s distribution centre...
Joshua Stone from Pershore College has been presented with Wyevale Nurseries’ Peter Williamson Travel Award. The 19-year-old, who has just finished in his first year of a Level 3 Extended Diploma in Horticulture, scooped the accolade after impressing the judges with a written submission and an interview.
With the annual GIMA Awards just weeks away, final preparations are now underway. This year Glee – the leading trade exhibition for the garden retail sector – has been confirmed as the headline sponsor for what is set to be another exciting evening celebrating the best the industry has to offer...
Malcolm Scott Consultants has successfully slashed a London garden centre’s Community Infrastructure Levy by £83,000 in a landmark appeal for the sector...
Sales volumes dropped off as we moved into June but it was a much better start to the month than last year. Compared to 2017, week 23 saw volumes up by 32%, driven mainly by plant sales and growing media...
Legal action against the owner of a garden centre near Wargrave who lost a long-running planning dispute has been dropped after a judge ruled that it was unfair...
