The warm, or occasionally very hot, weather has continued well into the late summer now, which has unfortunately taken some of the gloss off the early season gains our Garden Centre Association members saw in the gardening categories in the spring. However, the non-gardening sectors have continued to trade very well. I usually refer to
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The publisher of Home & Giftware Magazine, Gifts & Greetings Review Ltd., is delighted to announce the relaunch of Garden Centre Buyer magazine, a publication that was edited for years by H&G editor, Charlotte Cowell. Charlotte says: “We are thrilled to once again bring this great trade publication to the market, as it was an
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How wonderful it is to see the arrival of some proper spring gardening weather and it has certainly got our Garden Centre Association (GCA) members car parks filling up. At last, we have had a settled period of good weather, while I write this in the first week of April, to get people into their
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January’s Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures released by the Garden Centre Association (GCA) today (January 24, 2025) reveal members recorded ‘a steady start to the year’ with the year-to-date variance up +3.82%. When likened to January 2024, the results from GCA garden centres for the month showed eight of the 13 categories performed positively with
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As I write this, I am still recovering from the euphoria of attending our recent Garden Centre Association (GCA) annual conference, held this year at the DeVere Hotel, Wokefield Park near Reading. Will Blake, our Chairman from St Peters Garden Centre, did a wonderful job in organising a fast paced, informative and, of course, thought
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Winners of the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) most prestigious awards including its Garden Centres of Excellence were announced at its annual conference yesterday (Tuesday, January 28, 2025). The awards ceremony took place at the De Vere Wokefield Estate, Reading. Chief Executive at the GCA, Peter Burks, says: “We had a wonderful evening crowning our overall
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