While Britain’s High Streets are facing economic headwinds that have seen big name retailers consigned to history, garden centres are bucking the trend and experiencing healthy levels of growth. According to the Horticultural Trades Association, the UK garden market is worth around £5.7billion (excluding landscaping and amenity) and business is booming for the UK’s 2,300
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Diversification has never been more important in today’s garden retail environment. With the UK weather remaining unpredictable garden centres have had to find a way to generate revenue outside of peak season. There are approximately 2,300 garden centres in the UK with industry sales worth some £5billion a year (HTA 2016). With garden retailing changing
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One of the most enjoyable trade exhibitions of the past few months – we being nature-loving allotment-holders, after all! – was specialist garden centre event, Glee. Not only was the show itself remarkably revitalised and buzzing with the happy atmosphere of prosperity being enjoyed by so many in the garden centre trade, but it also
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Research analyst Mintel has concluded what many in the home and gift trade have long suspected, which is that garden centres and other leisure outlets have become the new shopping centres and retail destinations of choice. Welcome to the world of the Rural Department Store. With footfall numbers in shopping centres and the high
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