Premium plant prices losing appeal
04 May 2012 | by Matthew Appleby
Big price tags for new plants look increasingly unrealistic as consumers become better informed.
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.
Big price tags for new plants look increasingly unrealistic as consumers become better informed.
Company that bought UK's biggest player in the bird food market says it wants to invest in brands.
JHL Flower Shops and JHL West Wycombe Garden Centre, trading as Plant & Harvest, have gone into administration with RSM Tenon.
Horticulture Week has learned that Boyd Douglas-Davies' Hillview Group is set to make a new garden centre acquisition.
International retail consultant John Stanley has envisaged an 'end of the salesperson' scenario in garden centres.
Shrub Shack has taken over part of the former Roundtrees Garden Centre site in Congresbury near Bristol after parent company Wheatfields Park went into administration.
The Garden Store has taken over Burford Garden Company's garden centre on a 10ha site at Burford House in Tenbury, Worcestershire.
Blue Diamond has taken over Chester-based Garden Retail award-winning garden centre Grosvenor, which is owned by the Duke of Westminster.
Chief executive reaffirms centre strategy as England regional manager is among redundancies.



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