Looking to the 2024 season, garden retailers can step up their sustainability game and enhance their outdoor offer with a brand-new Primeur range of recycled planter designs and colourways. If you are keen to stay ahead of the curve and meet the increasing demand for...
Sustainable plant pot producer, elho, has moved another step closer to achieving its goal of being the first climate and socially-positive company in the market, after announcing it has reached a key milestone as all of its products will be made entirely from recycled...
With the great and good from the garden retail gathered at the Celtic Manor on 19th October, the winners of the highly-anticipated 2023 GIMA Awards were revealed. Here we find out more about those brands currently celebrating in style! This year, the GIMA Awards...
Henry Bell & Co has secured a 12-month primary supplier contract for its wild bird food and accessories range with the Tillington Group for a third year running. The move will see the entire Wild Bird Care Collection, with its 200-plus products, on sale throughout...
Perrywood Garden Centres, located in Tiptree, Essex, and Sudbury, Suffolk, has launched a new loyalty programme called ‘Perrywood Bloom’. In just one month 10,000 customers have already signed up. It offers their most loyal customers exclusive rewards and benefits...
Choice Marketing has signed RocketGro as an Associate Supplier with immediate effect. This now connects its garden centre members with the Somerset manufacturer’s growing media products. Under the new partnership, Choice Marketing’s membership – which comprises 53...
Wildlife specialist brand CJ Wildlife has announced its partnership with Hillier Garden Centres, one of the leading names in growing and horticultural retail. Visitors to Hillier Garden Centres are now able to browse and buy CJ Wildlife’s wide range of...
The Lovely Gift Group has announced its new pet keepsake brand, Oh So Precious, is now available through one of the leading UK pet trade distributors, Pedigree Wholesale. The new partnership will promote the new retail product range to the 2,100 Pedigree Wholesale...
A newly established brand, Feverfew Garden Company, focused on practical gardening wear for women has officially launched in the UK and promises to give ladies access to some of the most classic, stylish and functional gardening attire on the market. Feverfew Garden...
UK Total retail sales increased by 4.1% in August, against a growth of 1.0% in August 2022. This was above the 3-month average growth of 3.6% and in line with the 12-month average growth of 4.1%. Food sales increased 8.2% on a Total basis over the three months to...
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...
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