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Barking up the right tree

Bark product sales volumes rose by 22% last week while the overall Top 50 bestsellers growing media sales volumes dropped by .....

Lights, Action, Grow

As the warm weather encourages customers to spend more time in the garden so the sales of feed products soar, as do sales of .....

Miracle-Gro 20th Anniversary Interview

As Miracle-Gro approaches the 20th anniversary next year of its UK launch, GTN talks to the men behind the biggest brand in gardening.

John Ashley (70), commercial director of Scotts Miracle-Gro UK, who retires this year, tells GTN Online how the brand

Big Thinkers at HTA Conference

Leaders of the UK Garden Industry met at The London Stock Exchange on Tuesday 21st and Wednesday 22nd October to attend the last of this year’s successful HTA Conference programme. After a series of one-day conferences spanning topics from catering through to

Wilkinsons 100% Family

As the GTN Online team catch up with their video editing, we thought you might be interested to see these clips from a presentation by Lloyd Taylor, Gardening Buyer at Wilkinsons at the GIMA Business Meeting on 8th October. We found it very interesting to lea

Bestsellers from Glee

What did you think were the best products at Glee 2008 that will be certain Bestsellers in 2009? Now you can check your thinking with a sample of views from UK Garden Retailing professionals by watching our Glee 2008 Bestsellers Vox Pops video, featuring inte

More new pesticide rules will impact on garden retailers

New legislation promoting the sustainable and responsible use of pesticides comes into force in November – and retailers will be expected to play their part in spreading the word to consumers.

A primary aim of the.....

Charts point to new opportunities

Is garden centre retailing the light at the end of the tunnel? Are we seeing the green shoots of recovery before everyone else? Data from the GTN Bestsellers Epos panel shows that total volumes of products sold in Apri.....

Bucking the trend

From exciting, unusual specimens to trolley deals of key lines, Europlants have got it in stock now and ready to go

Weather will affect trade in the coming year more then the credit crunch, says Europlants .....