The garden retail sector is abuzz as the GIMA Awards are set to return in just four weeks! Taking place at the Celtic Manor resort in Newport, South Wales, the event will once again be a hotbed of celebration and networking, with 17 coveted awards up for grabs. With...
The GCA Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures for August have revealed an ‘excellent month’ with members seeing an uplift in 11 of the 13 categories recorded by the organisation (2023). Out this week, the BoT also highlighted a positive year-to-date variance of +1.13% for...
From 15th to 22nd September, Martin Cowell of Cowell’s Garden Centre in Newcastle, is cycling 900 miles passing through seven countries to help celebrate his 50th year and to raise vital funds for two of his favourite charities: Greenfingers Charity and True Colours...
The team behind Garden Centre Retail magazine has announced a brand-new trade exhibition and conference for the garden retail market: Garden Centre Expo. Building on the pillars of business growth through effective product selection, sustainability, technology and...
TV and radio broadcaster, Gethin Jones has been confirmed as the host of the 2023 GIMA Awards. Taking place on Thursday 19th October at the prestigious Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, South Wales, it will be Gethin that will help to reveal the winners of this year’s...
July's Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures have been released and show that the organisation’s members continued to perform well – despite the weather being against them (2023). The GCA also recorded a positive year-to-date variance of...
The Garden Centre Association (GCA) has just introduced another new module to its Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) e-Learning platform – this time on Sustainable Disease Control (August 2023). With growing public environmental awareness, it’s designed to provide...
The Rt Hon Mark Spencer MP, Minister of State at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and Labour’s Shadow Defra Minister Daniel Zeichner MP have joined the line-up for the HTA annual conference on 5 October 2023 at the ICC in Birmingham. ...
The ever-popular GIMA trend report is set to return this September with three webinars confirmed. Each providing delegates informative and interactive insight into those trends that are set to shape consumer desires, attitudes and aesthetics in 2025. Created in...
As June 2023 made history as the hottest June ever recorded, with unprecedented temperatures and a mix of heatwaves and heavy rainfall, garden centre sales experienced a surge. The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) has released its monthly market update,...
The GCA's GROW e-Learning platform has introduced five new courses covering food safety and health & safety. This launch is the first of three planned releases throughout 2023. It will see a total of 16 courses covering various food safety and health and safety...
THE GCA has unveiled its winners for the North Thames region during a presentation at Poplars Garden Centre in Bedfordshire. Perrywood Garden Centre, Tiptree won Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category while Perrywood, Sudbury picked...
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