GCA area award winners announced

by | Aug 18, 2016 | News | 0 comments

The Garden Centre Association (GCA) has recently revealed its area award winners during presentations held at member garden centres.

Awards were presented to garden centres in the North Thames, North West, South Thames, Wales & West, Midlands and North East regions with the winners in Scotland and Northern Ireland to be announced on August 31.

Iain Wylie, chief executive of the GCA, said: ?During each presentation evening inspectors for each area announced their findings after carrying out their inspections earlier in the year, highlighting best practice and new ideas as well as revealing the area winners in the two categories: Destination Garden Centre (DGC) and Garden Centre (GC).

?We would like to say a huge congratulations to all of the winners and a big ?thank you? to The Old Railway Line Garden Centre, Tong Garden Centre, RHS Wisley, Thurrock Garden Centre and Pennells Garden Centre ? Lincoln for playing hosts for the various events. The results from the inspections form the basis for many of the national GCA awards, which will be presented at next year?s conference, which is in St. Andrews from January 22 until 25.?

The final area awards evening for Scotland and Northern Ireland will take place on Wednesday, August 31 at Creative Gardens Galgorm Castle.

The GCA represents nearly 200 garden centres nationwide. Through sharing information and its inspection programme the GCA helps members to achieve high standards in customer service, plant quality and reliability.

For further information, please visit www.gca.org.uk

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