Heavy April rainfall hampers work conditions and leaves year's sales lagging by three per cent.
Wickes parent company Travis Perkins saw group revenue rise 4.4 per cent in the four months to 30 April, boosted by the acquisition in January of Toolstation, a smaller UK rival.
Barenbrug has launched BAR 7 regenerating perennial ryegrass (RPR) sports mixture in the UK following pot and field tests.
Travis Perkins has launched a scratch card competition for trade customers spending more than £100 on landscaping products.
Landscapers looking for ways of easing design limitations caused by drought are being targeted with an interlocking paver that retains water.
Natural Paving has launched a new brochure and enhanced website - www.naturalpaving.co.uk - drawing on its partnership with Fired Earth.
Living Stone's opening of a new paving manufacturing facility at its site near Lincoln was marked with an open day attended by suppliers and garden centre customers.
Lack of knowledge and skills-sharing by manufacturers are hitting landscape contractors and causing money wrangles if something goes wrong, an industry expert has warned.
A commitment to excellence to play range supply has seen SE Davis & Son of Redditch presented with the Melcourt Master Stockists Achievement Award for the year.
The domestic landscaping materials market was worth more than £900m in 2011 at manufacturers' prices but the downturn, particularly in the housing sector, has had a negative impact, research firm AMA has found.
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