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Product and service innovation the key to developing the market
By dt-admin on February 1, 2008If 2008 follows the pattern of past post storm periods it will be a flat year and so we will all have to drive sales ourselves. To achieve this...
DIY & Garden Show/Totally Tools 08 Review
By dt-admin on February 1, 2008With the DIY & Garden Show and Totally Tools over for another year, the real work for exhibitors now begins as they follow up the business leads they took...
Record breaking achievement for local garden centre
By dt-admin on February 1, 2008Grosvenor Garden Centre is celebrating once again after receiving a Garden Centre of Excellence award for the eighth consecutive year!The honour is given to garden centres displaying the highest...
Somerset garden centre launches online service
By dt-admin on February 1, 2008One of Somerset’s leading independent, family-run garden centres has launched a new website containing free gardening advice and an online mail order service for customers. Monkton Elm Garden and...
Bayer Garden ‘We Can Help’ campaign takes to the road
By dt-admin on February 1, 2008Bayer Garden is teaming up with gardening expert Chris Holden for a series of in-store staff training days at garden centres across the country. The training days are part...
Tips and advice for effective public relations
By dt-admin on February 1, 2008In the second of his articles on how garden centres can improve their own publicity, gardening pr consultant Graham Paskett discusses the importance of timing. Something that should be...
FROM GREEN FINGERS TO GREEN ISSUES, BENTS HAS GOT IT COVERED
By dt-admin on February 1, 2008Carbon footprints have worked their way up the agenda in all walks of life, including the garden centre industry which is working hard to maintain its reputation for being...
Trends and new products excite buyers at Spring Fair
By dt-admin on February 1, 2008Exhibitors across Spring Fair 2008 reported steady orders and high levels of interest in trends and new products, despite some caution from certain retailers as expected in the current...