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Year on year sales deficit halved in four weeks
The wetter and cooler weather at the start of June took some of the heat out of overall garden centre sales, not quite setting a new record for the first week of June. Garden Product volume sales were up by 43% on the same week last year and that means on a year to date basis the garden product deficit has halved from 52% just before re-opening to 26% after the first week of June...
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Man dies at Westland factory in Dungannon
A tragic accident has happened at Westland's Dungannon factory resulting in a mans death...
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Socially Distanced plant sales up by 40%
Plant sales were up by 40% compared to the same week last year for the start of June. That’s great news considering the weather wasn’t so good and that stocks of bedding plants were running out. Instead gardeners appear to have bought other plants, especially veg plants and plants to grow in pots and containers including herbs...
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Marlows , Bury St Edmunds, to close due to Coronavirus trading conditions
After re-opening on May 20th with a 40 minute appointment only shopping system, Marlows Home and Garden in Bury St Edmunds announced on June 9th that it will be closing down...
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Adam, Alliums and Princess Leia joined the #FloralFriday Fun!
As this week is British Flowers Week, a national celebration of the wealth and variety of British cut flowers, plants and foliage, Greenfingers Charity invites you to join the fun of #FloralFriday this Friday (19th June), by posting photos of your favourite British flowers or dressed in your favourite floral British attire – a great way to celebrate the fantastic work that is being done by our British growers, seed suppliers and designers and at the same time ensuring the work of the charity continues into 2021 and beyond...
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It’s Time to Grow Your Autumn Plant Sales!
Looking for a Pansy which will cascade over the sides of hanging baskets and planters providing colour even in the dullest days of winter? Well look no further…
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Aquatic firms boosted by rise in popularity of garden ponds
The UK’s aquatics and water-gardening industry has been boosted by a huge surge of interest in garden ponds during the coronavirus lockdown. With the country forced to ‘stay at home’ at the peak of the Covid-19 crisis, it seems many households turned their attentions to building a wildlife or fishpond in the garden...
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Fire at Cooks Garden Centre
Award winning Cooks Garden Centre in Stourbridge is open as normal following a fire at their Bewdley Road Nursery on June 5th.
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Designing ways to reduce plastic waste: apply for funding
Businesses can apply for a share of £800,000 to look at innovative designs for products, services or business models that make plastic use more sustainable.
The UK Government has published details of a fund that garden product manufacturers could apply to for business projects that seek to better understand the behaviour of customers and users and use that understanding to create innovative design concepts...
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Recoup Conference 2020 postponement
Plastics Recycling Charity RECOUP’S eagerly awaited Conference has become another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic...
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A speedy solution for queuing in comfort
Industry construction experts Fordingbridge have introduced their latest product designed specifically to aid the Garden Centre industry...
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Harness the power of Neudorff’s natural gardening range in time for peak season, says DLF Seeds
DLF Seeds, the UK distributor for Neudorff’s portfolio of environmentally conscious gardening products, is urging retailers to leverage the full sales potential of the company’s innovative fertilisers and pest controls as peak season approaches...
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BBC Gardeners’ World Live online celebrations start tomorrow
We can’t go to BBC Gardeners’ World Live this year, so it’s going to come to us, tomorrow and Friday...
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Tuffgrass and Quick Lawn top Johnsons Lawn Seed’s best-sellers as strong demand drives growth
Johnsons Lawn Seed, the UK’s oldest lawn seed brand, is reporting healthy sales of two of its most iconic consumer brands, despite the nationwide lockdown that gripped the garden trade during peak season...
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Dobbies supports virtual Rose Festival 2020
Dobbies Garden Centres are supporting Sun Gardening’s virtual Rose Festival. Running from 20 to 28 June, the Rose Festival will celebrate the nation’s favourite flower online with growers, gardeners and kids encouraged to get involved...
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ICL puts support behind Perennial & ‘You’re Not Alone’ initiative
Partnering with Big White Wall - Perennial has launched a new initiative ‘You’re Not Alone’ - providing access to free mental health support...
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Sorry it's late...
Sorry we missed an issue of GTN Xtra last week.
An accident with a circular saw and a right thumb, followed by a thunderstorm which took out our Internet and IT systems for a week, means we've been peddling hard this week to catch up...
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New June record for growing media
Despite the cooler wetter weather and continued Social Distancing measures, growing media sales for the first week of June 2020 set a new June volumes sold per week record...
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GIMA announces first virtual Buyer Connect session with Homebase
Closing date is Thursday 18th June
GIMA has announced that they are hosting a virtual Meet the Buyer session with Homebase to be held on Thursday 25th June 2020. This speed networking event will allow potential suppliers to meet with key garden retailer buyers in timed 20-minute appointment sessions...
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Pots of Garden Product Sales
It was another bumper week for garden product sales in the first week of June, even though the weather wasn’t so good. Sales were 43% up on the same week last year with core garden growing lines and pots the biggest beneficiaries...
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Keter Group to manufacture high-quality face masks to help keyworkers stay safe
In response to the COVID-19 crisis, AP Medical, Keter’s medical division, has developed a re-usable face mask to help health care and key workers stay safe...
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Double bubble for Grow your Own Veg
Veg 2 Gro sales for the first week of June were double that of the same week over the past three years as new stocks became available and gardeners hunger to grow their own continues. Bigger 1 litre veg plants sold especially well...
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The best of last week's
If you missed last week's GTN Xtra, below are the most-read stories...
It’s a sell out!
As news filters through about plant centres getting back to year on year sales and some centres that changed hands last year actually being up year to date now, GTN Xtra has been hearing from garden centres that they are selling out of some lines, especially BBQ’s Charcoal and Gas as lockdown relaxations add fuel to spending at garden centres...
“We’ve sold out of BBQ’s, we’ve run out of charcoal today (Monday) and we can’t get any more gas for 2 weeks."
"Last week we were asked not to sell any new gas bottle contracts. You can imagine how that went down when trying to sell gas BBQs! Are other brands as bad?”
“Turf has been selling especially well despite the dry weather."
“Due to amazing amount of hardwork from the teams across the business we have had a very encouraging month. Sales have certainly been in excess of anything we hoped for."
Read comments from Altons, Hillmount, Coolings, Bosworths, Haskins, Planters & British Garden Centres
It’s like Christmas, only bigger!
The number of new lines selling through and being recorded in the GTN Bestsellers Epos database was on a par with the start of Christmas. Gardeners are buying EVERYTHING they can to be enjoying their garden this summer...
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Fire at Millbrook Gravesend destroys compost and furniture
"Luckily everyone was safe and the fire brigade put it out before it spread too far. We lost compost and garden furniture as well as the contents of our Christmas grotto..."
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Dobbies sign up on new site that will be the biggest Dobbies in the South West
Dobbies Garden Centres have signed an agreement to lease with Cheltenham-based developer Robert Hitchins Ltd to open a 75,000 sq ft flagship garden centre.
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The biggest week for Growing Media sales, ever!
Sales of Growing Media during the second week after re-opening soared to the highest levels ever recorded by GTN Bestsellers and not by a small margin...
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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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