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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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KitchenPod helps Frosts to improve café performance
PKL, a leading supplier of catering infrastructure solutions, has produced a KitchenPod for Frosts Garden Centre at Millets Farm. The quick and cost-effective solution has enabled the garden centre to improve the performance of their on-site café and offer a wider range of food...
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Business as usual at the Old Railway Line Garden Centre after sickness outbreak on Mother's Day
It was business as usual this week at the award-winning Old Railway Line Garden Centre after a reported 40 people were struck down by sickness following a visit to the store on Mother's Day. Although investigations by Environmental Health officials are ongoing it's believed the affected customers had symptoms closely matching those of a norovirus outbreak currently widespread throughout South Wales.
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Doubt over new £60m garden centre and retail complex
The future of a new £60 million outlet mall and garden centre at Ashchurch near Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, is in doubt after planning officials recommended local councillors turn down the development...
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Toys to gardening: Wyevale's new CEO started on Monday
Wyevale Garden Centres said welcome on Monday (14 March) to a new CEO. Roger McLaughlan, 52, takes over from Kevin Bradshaw – and as his last job was MD of the UK arm of Toys’R’Us, now is the perfect time for Wyevale managers who fancy they’d like to see more cuddly toys in their stores to step forward…
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Mother’s Day provides a good boost to overall sales
Mother’s Day provided a good boost to overall sales this year with good sales of houseplants, planted arrangements, other gift items and of course catering sales. The GTN Bestsellers All Product Sales Index was up 21% on the same week last year...
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Thompson & Morgan pays record amount for single seed
Thompson & Morgan has paid a world record amount (£1,250) for single giant pumpkin seed and now the company is offering it to home gardeners for free. It's all part of an attempt to bring world record pumpkin weight to UK shores for the first time...
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Bord na Móna UK expands customer services
The continuing success of Bord na Móna Growise, the new single brand of peat to peat-free growing media and soil improvers, has now led to an expansion in the customer services department at BNM UK’s head office...
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Strictly Come Planting for the Klondyke Group
Over 20 suppliers exhibited at the Klondyke Group's annual Plant Show, which took place at the magnificent Gisborough Hall in Teeside...
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You'll be full of beans - and zinnias - in 2017
Beans and zinnias are named as Plants of the Year for retail promotion in 2017 by Fleuroselect's Home Garden Association...
 
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Town & Country launches schools competition
Town & Country has launched a ‘Design a Gardening Glove Schools Challenge' in an attempt to encourage a younger audience into gardening...
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EU postpones re-approval of glyphosate after objections from four states
The EU has postponed its decision to renew the licence for glyphosate, the active ingredient in many garden weedkillers, after opposition from France, Holland, Italy and Sweden...
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GTN March 2016
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Lighting shines brightly for garden product sales
Volumes for the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart are down on the previous week and they are also lagging behind the same period for the past two years (-4.1% in 2015 and -27.4% in 2014). The bright spot is garden lighting with several products making their mark...
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Scotts Miracle-Gro Seed Pod makes its Veg-2-Gro debut
Veg-2-Gro sales are down on the same week of the previous two years (-6.3% 2015 and -27.4% 2014) but there is a glimmer of hope with volumes being nearly 6% higher than the previous week...
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Growing media sales witness a slow down
The fortunes of growing media sales saw a change on the previous week, being down by nearly 29%. But they were still ahead of the same week in the past two years, and organic products had a particularly good sales week...
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Linked sales from Kent & Stowe to increase consumer spend
The marketing team at Kent & Stowe, who are well known for their innovative approach to creating new retail sales opportunities, have developed a programme to help garden centres increase consumer spend on Lawncare through linked promotions and displays...
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Fallen Fruits set to open Van Hage giftware display
Garden giftware company Fallen Fruits, whose themed, designer collections are inspired by nature, is set to open one of its largest ‘shop within a shop’ display areas at leading garden centre, Van Hage’s flagship store in Hertfordshire.
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Funeral service of Phil Kimberley
The funeral service of Phil Kimberley will take place at Redditch Crematorium at 11 am on March 17...
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Kelkay supply essential pumps and lights for water features
Kelkay has launched new pumps and lights to further enhance the company’s best selling water feature brands easyfountain and Henri...
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Commemorative tree planted for Poundbury residents
Mike Burks, managing director of The Gardens Group, planted a tree in Woodlands Crescent as a gift to local residents during Poundbury Gardens’ 10-year anniversary celebrations...
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Pimp Up Your Roundup is back for 2016
Following the success of last year’s competition, ‘Pimp Up Your Roundup’ is back for the third year running...
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Pictures from The Greatest Christmas Gold-winning Teams
Garden centre teams excelled with their Christmas displays in 2015. Click on any of the gold-winning teams (below) to see a gallery of pictures from each centre. The galleries are sponsored by Kaemingk...
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