With Mother's Day moving from the start to the end of March this year it was no surprise to see total sales drop year on year last week. But gardening product and plant sales still increased according to GTN Bestsellers...
The BVG Group has acquired 100% of the share capital of Branded Garden Products, the parent company of Thompson & Morgan. The new combined group will have a turnover of £140m with an EBITDA of around £13.5m...
After undertaking a 12 month review of its current operations Gardman has taken the decision to consolidate and relocate its warehouse facilities in the Kings Lynn to a single, purpose built, 415k sqft site in Daventry, Northamptonshire.
Sales of home security device Patlock have boomed since its appearance on BBC Two's Dragons' Den last month, with a year-on-year increase of over 200 per cent...
Cambridge-based garden centre, Scotsdales, kicked off its year of charitable initiatives with a ‘Ladies Night’ event that raised over £1,245 for Breast Cancer Now and Greenfingers charity.
Retaliers and GTN Xtra visited two nurseries in Hereford last week to attend their PlantFest and to see new product developments for the coming year...
The sixth annual Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day take place nationally on the 17 March, with many events continuing throughout the weekend. The 24hr Plant-athon, which was a runaway success last year, is being rolled out to more garden centres, and the Garden Re-Leaf Walk boasts a huge uptake in registrations and aims to be both more inclusive and challenging. Here are the top 10 fundraising ideas...
The Garden Re-Leaf Day Plant-athons this year will look to bring an added element of excitement to garden centres when they begin towards the end of next week (from 16th March). Featuring inter-store competitiveness, a father and son team, and tests of stamina and speed - this year’s participants will be looking to raise more than £23,000 for Greenfingers.
Orchard Park MD Richard Cumming is going to be joined by his son Robbie Cumming of Hornby Whitefoot PR during Garden Re-Leaf Day.
After helping with support duties last year, GTN's Trevor and Karen Pfeiffer vowed to do The Great Garden Re-Leaf Day walk in full in 2017, so Labradoodles Olly & Floyd thought they’d better join in...
In horticulture, great business moments are rare and usually involve plenty of hard work. But that’s exactly what happened to Anthony Tesselaar twenty five years ago...
Despite their affinity for online shopping the majority of millennials haven’t completely abandoned the high street and still value physical stores, reveals a new report by The Market Creative.
Garden Centres are reporting exciting sales growth in a traditional gardening category thanks to Kelkay’s clever branding and merchandising of the RHS Gardener’s Collection...
Pictures from the Greatest Christmas Gold-winning teams
Garden centre teams excelled with their Christmas displays and grottos in 2015. Below we reveal galleries from the gold-winning teams. Click on each garden centre to see their galleries...
Europlanters have introduced two new and exciting products for the garden retail sector. The Smart Valve is the watering system with no need for batteries or mains supply...
The sixth annual Greenfingers Garden Re-Leaf Day take place nationally on the 17 March, with many events continuing throughout the weekend. The 24hr Plant-athon, which was a runaway success last year, is being rolled out to more garden centres, and the Garden Re-Leaf Walk boasts a huge uptake in registrations and aims to be both more inclusive and challenging. Here are the top 10 fundraising ideas...
