Hardy Nursery Stock - Challenging sales conditions
18 May 2012
With the rain keeping garden centre customers away, how are their nursery suppliers faring? Can this season's sales be rescued? Graham Clarke reports.
Environmental concerns, convenience eating and longer shelf life are driving developments in fresh-produce packaging, Jack Shamash reports.
With the rain keeping garden centre customers away, how are their nursery suppliers faring? Can this season's sales be rescued? Graham Clarke reports.
Haxnicks has been appointed UK and Ireland distributor of Irrigatia solar automatic watering systems and has sold its first allocation to 25 garden centres within a week.
Doff Portland product manager Jude Beharall says the chemical and fertiliser company is selling to 40 new garden centres this year.
Herbaceous perennial plants company Blooms of Bressingham has launched a website with a view to making it easier for consumers to find retail outlets selling its plants and for traders to find licensees and growers.
Roundstone Nurseries growing manager Lynne Seabrook has emphasised the importance of growth regulation as a tool to meet bedding plant uniformity challenges set by customer B&Q.
Bransford Webbs has started using its new 2,300sq m despatch facility, which incorporates loading bays and office facilities.
Lichfield-based logistics firm Palletways Birmingham has renewed its contract with garden product manufacturer Hozelock.
Growers tell Horticulture Week that plant stocked in B&Q is same as one previously supplied by dropped firm.
Four leading business operators accompanied consultant Neville Stein on a fact-finding mission to an Irish trolley fair in Kilkenny last month.
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