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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The Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) Barometer of Trade (BoT) report for February 2024 saw clothing romp ahead at +20.9% with catering just behind at +19.55% when compared with the same month last year. Just three of the categories recorded by the GCA were down when likened to February 2023, according to the figures submitted by
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The year has started off very well in our Garden Centre Association member garden centres with the warm, but mostly very wet, weather driving customers into the restaurants and giving generally good sales across all categories. The recent Mothering Sunday weekend was also very strong, which has given a great start to the spring peak
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Garden Centre Association chief executive, Peter Burks, writes: The first few weeks of the new year always give me a great buzz, as we say goodbye to Christmas with all the colour and sparkle that it brings and begin our return to gardening. The Christmas displays completely take over and transform the shop floor of
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The Garden Centre Association (GCA) has seen several new members join in the past year, with nine garden centres and 22 associates signing up and approved so far this year. These garden centres include Hillmount Garden Centre, Belfast, The Hertfordshire Garden Centre, Yarnton Home & Garden, Oxfordshire, Rutland Nursery and five Hilliers – Newbury, Three-Legged
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Bestselling author and BBC radio and TV neuroscience presenter, Dr Hannah Critchlow, will be speaking about wellbeing at the Garden Centre Association’s (GCA) annual conference on Tuesday, January 30 (January 28 until 31, 2024). Named by the journal Nature in 2019 as one of the ‘Rising Stars in Life Sciences’, Hannah is an internationally acclaimed
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