Poor weather in April (2022) affected sales in core categories at garden centres across the country according to the latest Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Barometer of Trade (BoT) report. Sales in outdoor plants were down -15.21%, houseplant sales were down -17.16% and seed and bulb sales were also down -14.99% compared to the same month
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New Garden Centre Association (GCA) Chairman, Tammy Woodhouse, shares the trading update and sets out her plot for the season ahead. What a whirlwind few months it has been in my new position as GCA Chairman. Chairman Elect, Will Blake, and I have been working hard on strengthening our relationships with our member centres and
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Farm shops and houseplant sales dominated at garden centres this May (2021) according to the Garden Centre Association’s recent Barometer of Trade (BoT) report. As centres in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland reopened mid-May in 2020, this report used figures from 2019 and reveals farm shop sales were up 90.24% in May 2021. May
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Woodlodge Products are celebrating this week after being presented with the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) 2020 Associate of the Year Award. Members were asked to vote for the supplier, a GCA Associate member, which had done the most for their business and the industry through support, service and innovation last year. Woodlodge Products’ Director, Michael
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With this year’s annual conference postponed, the Garden Centre Association (GCA) is looking back at highlights from its 2020 event, where Buddhist monk, Gelong Thubten was one of the stand-out key speakers. In 1993, in his early twenties, Thubten suffered with stress and decided to go to a monastery to learn meditation. Initially planning to
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The Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) e-learning Garden Retail Online Workshops (GROW) modules on social distancing helped prepare members for re-opening after lockdown. Antony Snow, the GCA’s Instructional Designer for GROW, said: “When garden centres across the country closed, no-one imagined how different things would be when they re-opened, so to put together modules on something
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