Specialist business property adviser, Christie & Co has completed the sale of Wellingborough Garden Centre in Great Doddington, Northamptonshire to the Howard Family. Albeit newcomers to the garden centre industry the family already operates successful...
The Gardens Group has been announced as one of the finalists at the Planet Mark Awards 2023, which is set to take place at The Royal Institution in London on Thursday 2 November. Shortlisted in the Employee Engagement category, the independent garden centre group has...
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...
Data released last week by the HTA shows clear consequences that accelerating a ban from 2030 to 2026 on UK tree and plant growers using peat will have significant environmental and economic impacts. The reduced timescale will more than halve the number of growing...
As one of the most well-established and popular suppliers of plant accessories in Britain, Ivyline enjoyed its best-ever Glee show this year, as its efforts to elevate the plant accessories category bore abundant fruit. Renowned for supplying houseplant pots 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...
Burgon & Ball, creator of beautiful premium gardening tools and accessories since 1730, is helping retailers boost impulse sales this autumn with a new limited-edition series of countertop displays for hand cutting tools. The new displays feature a choice of three...
Having had success at a previous show, British Garden Centres will be exhibiting at the Gardeners World Autumn Fair. The event is held in Hampshire on 1-3 September 2023. Visitors will be able to browse and buy a variety of high-quality plants from the British Garden...
The team at a garden centre in Otley is broadening its family appeal by introducing its popular Santa experience for the first time. Otley Garden Centre, formerly Stephen H Smith's, was acquired by Yorkshire Garden Centres in July last year and the team is looking...
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...
Following the release of the HMRC statistics on the Plastic Packaging Tax (released 17 August), Andrew Thurston, Customs Duty & Indirect Tax Consultant at MHA, says while it is too early to really say whether the tax is proving effective, early analysis suggests...
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