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50 years of Glee: Vote now for your half-century champions!
As the Glee exhibition gets set to celebrate half a century at the heart of the garden retail sector, the organising team is looking for your input. In the past 50 years, Glee has seen thousands of exhibitors pass through its doors, with hundreds of thousands of new products launched since the show’s humble beginnings in 1974. To celebrate the newness and passion that have shaped Glee and the broader garden centre market during this time, the hunt is now on to find the people and product that have driven the most change over the past five decades...
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GIMA Buyers Guide & New Product Digest Spring 2024 - read on-line here
New Products for the UK Garden Trade for 2024 from GIMA Members: AMES Apta, AMES Home Delivery, AMES Tools, Auto Pot Global, Azpects, Bulldog Tools, CJS Display, Coir Products, Durstons, Edelman, elho, Evergreen Garden Care, Fargro, Forest Garden, Gardena, Handy Distribution, Glee, Hortiwool, Hozelock, Johnsons Lawn Seeds, Leon Boots, Museums & Galleries, PlantWorks, Primeur, Pot Mate, SharkNinja, The Solar Centre, Treadstone, UK Greetings, Vitavia, Westland Horticulture, Witt UK & Ireland, Woodmansterne, Zest Outdoor Living & GIMA Member Directory.
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Artevasi announces number one global bestseller
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The Venezia 80cm Grow Box has become the world's number one bestseller from Artevasi. With its moulded legs, built-in water reservoir, removable rubber stopper for drainage, 58-litre capacity, overall durability, and outstanding value for money, it is a firm favourite in garden centres across Europe, America and the Middle East...
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Unlocking the greenhouse advantage
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Greenhouse specialist Vitavia reveals why owning one is a gardener's secret weapon...
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Dobbies renews contract with Wincanton as multi-channel supply chain partner

Wincanton has been awarded extended warehouse and transport contracts with Dobbies, the UK’s leading garden centre retailer, to provide premium home delivery, store replenishment and eCommerce services...
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LOFA LAUNCH THE LOFA SALES ACADEMY

In collaboration with Meta-Morphose, LOFA have tailored an exclusive, top-tier sales and coaching program for LOFA members, tackling the challenges of the evolving garden leisure industry head-on...
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Reverend and son buy Sheffield garden centre

Reverend Dave Walker and his son William have bought Birley Moor Garden Centre and Aquatics from previous owners Chris and Margaret Dale, who are retiring having run the facility since the early 1990s...
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Garden party to celebrate 30 years of support for students
The Colegrave Seabrook Foundation is celebrating its 30th year of awarding scholarships to students studying horticulture, and a special Garden Party is being held on July 2 before the official opening of the Ball Summer Showcase at West Adderbury in Oxfordshire. Special guests will include the charity's Patron, Alan Titchmarsh MBE
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Blue Diamond Garden Centres lead the way in British grown houseplants without the peat

At the new RHS Urban Show Manchester, Blue Diamond, Britain’s largest Garden Centre group, is championing the move towards British Grown peat-free, peat free and soil-free houseplants. Blue Diamond is committed to developing best practice in sustainable living as well as responding to the growing, eco-conscious customers demand to reduce environmental impact.
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Established Peak District garden centre under new control
Husband-and-wife team Murry and Caroline Newbury, who have more than 25 years’ experience in the horticulture industry, have taken over at Hope Valley Garden Centre in the Peak District near Sheffield...
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Resolva returns to TV screens for 13th year

Resolva, the trusted and effective solution for garden weeds from Westland Horticulture, returns to TV screens for a 13th year from 1st May 2024...
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The Greenfingers Charity remembers John Adkins
The Greenfingers Charity was saddened to hear about the recent passing of John Adkins, the charity’s first Garden Project Manager...
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Millbrook Garden Company celebrates milestones and fundraising success

Millbrook Garden Centre, Gravesend,celebrated its 30th anniversary, marking three decades of serving the local community with gardening expertise, quality plants and much more...
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Cavendish Maine Recruitment sponsors Kate Ebbens’ run
Cavendish Maine Recruitment is sponsoring Kate Ebbens’ 366-day run for Greenfingers throughout April.
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Zest team runs Manchester Marathon championing mental health awareness

Garden furniture, grow your own and decorative garden structure specialist, Zest, part of the P&A Group, is fielding a team to take on the Manchester Marathon today, Sunday 14th April, to raise money for North East Wales Mind, the P&A Group’s charity for 2024...
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Bradford garden centre group shortlisted for two national HR awards

Yorkshire Garden Centres Group has reached the finals of both the Best HR Team of the Year and the ESG Program of the Year categories of the UK Company Culture Awards.
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SOLEX Exhibition to kick off festivities with Awards Ceremony and Afterparty
SOLEX Afterparty | Tuesday 9 July | 1830 -2230 | Hilton Metropole | NEC, Birmingham
 
SOLEX Exhibition, the premier event that gathers the best and brightest of the outdoor leisure industry, has announced an Awards Ceremony & Afterparty to kick off the excitement of the summer event on the Tuesday 9 July. Marking its 16th year, SOLEX Exhibition has curated a night of celebration, networking, and a thrilling football-themed evening to coincide with the highly anticipated UEFA Euro 2024 semi-finals...
Read more and add your name to the guest list here
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Town & Country's eco-friendly essentials for Earth Day 2024

Town & Country is committed to providing sustainable options for those who want to join in the fight for a more vibrant future for our earth...
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Andersons & Mulch confirm debut at Glee 2024
The exhibitor list for the 2024 edition of Glee – the leading trade exhibition for the garden retail sector (10th-12th September, NEC Birmingham) - is rapidly expanding with the confirmation that Andersons and Mulch will be debuting its latest garden glove and sundries offering at this year’s event...
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Durston Garden Products introduce new peat-free range

Durstons are set to storm the market with their brand-new consistent and reliable peat-free range, enriched by sustainable game-changing material Gro Fibre...
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Group Commitment, GTN Interview with Caroline Owen, Chair of the Tillington Group in GTN March 2024 Issue
GTN March 2024 read on-line here. In this issue:
Gift Packaging from Woodmansterne
- Group Commitment – GTN Interview with Caroline Owen, Chair of the Tillington Group
- New retail solutions from Artevesi
- What’s Hot in 2024 – New products launched at the Garden Press Event
- Maximising seed sales at Mr Fothergills
- 25 years of Greenfingers FUNdraising
- Garden Re-Leaf Day 2024
- Strictly Blue Diamond – Exclusive Awards coverage
- New at Solex for 2024
- Products to delight from Spring Fair
- Be the best plant specialists – GTN Planteria special report
- A brighter shade of green – LOFA Column
- Three days of PATS in September 2024
- Celebrating 125 years – HTA Column
- The start is everything – GIMA Column
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Kev completes half marathon in pair of wellies
Kevin Burgess, director of Leon Boots, completed the London Landmarks Half Marathon in 2 hours 9 minutes 57 seconds wearing a pair of the company’s popular boots...
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Sponsor the 2024 Garden Media Guild Awards
The prestigious Garden Media Guild Awards – affectionately known as the gardening ‘Oscars’ - are set to return on 22nd November, with The Savoy in London providing a stunning backdrop to proceedings...
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Keukenhof Concert, a journey through 75 years of music Wednesday 8 May
Celebrate Keukenhof’s 75th anniversary and go on a journey through 75 years of music with the Metropole Orkest jazz and pop orchestra...
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
Dobbies Horticulture Director Marcus Eyles departs after seven years
Marcus Eyles has decided to move on from his role as Horticulture Director at Dobbies to pursue a new chapter in his illustrious 40-year career...
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Dobbies respond to question about stock availability over the Easter period
Last week after a visit to Dobbies Peterborough over the Easter weekend GTN Xtra asked Dobbies for feedback in their stock situation. "[We] are working hard to ensure shelves are stocked but we also have to be responsive to the weather - with wet and windy conditions over the weekend, we had to consider what was on the shop floor..."
Read Dobbies full response here
Dobbies appoint Steve Pitcher in consultancy role
Dobbies has appointed Stephen Pitcher in a consultancy role, working closely with the gardening and horticultural teams...
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GIMA Charity Golf Day – Now open for bookings
The 2024 GIMA Charity Golf Day will be returning to Belton Woods Hotel and Golf Course on Thursday, 6th June to play the Woods Course. The annual event is always a great way to spend time with colleagues, customers and friends rounded off with a BBQ outside (weather permitting)...
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spoga+gafa – garden creation & care
From 16 to 18 June 2024, the largest garden and BBQ trade fair in the world will present the theme "garden creation & care".
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Terracotta pots direct from the Artevasi factory
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Founded in 2006, Artevasi has become the world's leading manufacturer of environmentally friendly, sustainable pots made from recycled plastic. They now export to over 50 countries on 5 continents, with offices worldwide...
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