GCA CEO, Peter Burks, writes: The early summer sees the end of the annual inspection window for our member garden centres. Every Garden Centre Association member garden centre gets an unannounced visit from one of our team of four expert inspectors during the three-month period from mid-March to mid-June. There are 218 individual factors that
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Teams at garden centres across the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) South East area are celebrating after scooping awards during a presentation evening yesterday at Haskins Garden Centre Snowhill (Thursday, July 11, 2024). Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category was Ruxley Manor (pictured below), the Garden Centre (GC) category award
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Staff at garden centres across the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Midlands, Wales & West region are celebrating after scooping awards during a presentation yesterday afternoon and evening at Melbicks Garden Centre (Tuesday, July 9, 2024). Garden Centre of the Year winners were Planters Garden Centre, Tamworth in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category (pictured top_
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This year’s spring season has not been kind to our industry with very little in the way of favourable weather to get our gardening punters going. In fact, in all my years in the trade, I cannot remember a year that our friend and foe, the weather, has given us so little help. While the
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GCA Chief Executive, Peter Burks writes: Our Barometer of Trade (BoT) figures for March were our most recently released and it was very heartening to see them showing a very healthy +9% compared to the same month last year. While we must be mindful that March last year was not a particularly good sales month,
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Everybody who has worked in our industry for any length of time knows that it is very resilient to external economic factors and that the biggest influence is always the weather. Getting the right weather, at the right time of year, guarantees success. Obviously, the contra to this is that getting the wrong weather can
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