As garden retailing continues to thrive, with double digit year-on-year growth, the future for our industry continues to look bright. One place where this optimism will shine through will be the forthcoming Glee exhibition (10th – 12th September, NEC Birmingham), where 550 plus suppliers will join with 7,000 UK and international key decision makers, buyers and trend setters, to showcase the future of gardening. Continue reading
Month: June 2019
Glee 2019 Retail Lab sponsor interview: Meadow View Stone
Retailers seeking products of the future and the latest in-store merchandising ideas need look no further than the Retail Lab at Glee. Now in its third year, this inspirational feature area, in association with the Horticultural Trades Association, is bursting with ideas. In fact, 61% of Glee’s visitors say they will attend Glee 2019 as a result of seeing the Retail Lab last year. Here, we meet one of the sponsors of this year’s feature, Meadow View Stone, who brings over 25 years’ experience of supplying the widest range of imported and exclusive decorative aggregates and landscaping stone to the garden centre industry. Continue reading
Join LifestyleGarden® at SOLEX to view its new 2020 ranges, setting new standards in design & sustainable business
The forthcoming SOLEX exhibition (9th – 11th July, NEC Birmingham) will offer the outdoor furniture and leisure industry its first opportunity to see LifestyleGarden®’s new 2020 ranges, all of which are setting the bar higher than ever when it comes to sustainable and responsible product design and management. Continue reading
Glee 2019 Retail Lab sponsor interview: Verona Group
Retailers seeking products of the future and the latest in-store merchandising ideas need look no further than the Retail Lab at Glee. Now in its third year, this inspirational feature area, in association with the Horticultural Trades Association, is bursting with ideas. In fact, 61% of Glee’s visitors say they will attend Glee 2019 as a result of seeing the Retail Lab last year. Here, we meet first-time sponsors, Verona Group, to find out more about the UK’s leading distributor of tiles and mosaics in natural stone, porcelain, ceramic and glass from the company’s Product Marketing Executive, Rosie Preston. Continue reading
Garden centre managers predict stylish restaurants to drive footfall and shield retailers from economic storm
Garden centre catering is experiencing a revolution. From wood-fired pizza ovens to tapas bars, carveries and patisseries, retail managers are channelling millions of pounds worth of investment into stylish restaurants that offer the ultimate in temptation for gardeners and food-lovers. Continue reading
Glee 2019 Retail Lab sponsor interview: Scheurich
Retailers seeking products of the future and the latest in-store merchandising ideas need look no further than the Retail Lab at Glee. Now in its third year, this inspirational feature area, in association with the Horticultural Trades Association, is bursting with ideas. In fact, 61% of Glee’s visitors say they will attend Glee 2019 as a result of seeing the Retail Lab last year. Here, we meet one of the sponsors of this year’s feature – the German pot, container and plant accessories manufacturer Scheurich, which is eager to demonstrate its latest creations when the Retail Lab throws open its doors. Continue reading
GIMA Charity Day enjoys a thriving 10th anniversary event
A successful day and night of fundraising was had by all who recently attended the 10th annual GIMA Charity Day, held at Telford Hotel and Golf Resort on 6th June. Continue reading
Greenfingers set to open new hospice garden at Claire House
The beautiful Greenfingers Charity ‘Garden of Colour’ is set to open at Claire House Children’s Hospice (Bebington, Wirral) tomorrow (June 12th), providing a stunning sensory place of enjoyment and rest for those life-limited children and their families that call Claire House ‘home’. Continue reading
Material matters: LifestyleGarden® becomes synonymous with material innovation
For many retailers the LifestyleGarden® brand is recognisable by the quality of product it continues to deliver season after season. Driven by design, and changing consumer trends, LifestyleGarden® is a brand that responds and adapts to market demands. This need to adapt is clearly demonstrated by the brand’s commitment to bringing to market unique materials which offer both retailers and consumers a real point of difference, whilst riding high on the sustainable and eco-conscious agenda. Continue reading
Eco-savvy consumers drive demand for on-trend grey landscaping materials as interior décor extends to outdoor rooms
Fashions come and go – and landscaping is no exception. Crazy paving and rockeries were big in the 1970s; patios became the focal point for chintzy garden furniture during the 1980s, while timber decking, gravel and water features soared in popularity in the 1990s as television makeovers introduced the nation to the concept of outdoor rooms. Continue reading
