Book your place at the Garden Retail Awards 2010
31 Aug 2010
Get ready for the Garden Retail Awards 2010 - the garden retail event of the year.
Retail expert Mary Portas says garden centres should innovate, inspire and advise, reports Matthew Appleby.
Get ready for the Garden Retail Awards 2010 - the garden retail event of the year.
Peter Seabrook returns from the Dutch Pack Trials with a fresh perspective on the benefit of plant introductions.
Garden Retail and Westland have created an award to incentivise new entrants into the garden industry.
This sector thrived in last year's weather conditions, and 2010 so far looks healthy too, says Keith Chapman.
This well-designed and beautifully fitted-out site is to become a 'blueprint' for the company's future projects, says Matthew Appleby.
Grass seed products for consumers are now being competitively marketed in a professional way, says Matthew Appleby.
Garden centre consultant Ian Boardman, director of IBBIS (UK), is launching business mentoring programme Making it Happen, which he says can improve year-on-year growth by 30 to 40 per cent.
Business rates are a fact of life, but garden centres may be missing opportunities to lessen their burden.
Paul Pleydell, of consultants Pleydell Smithyman, is advising garden centres to hold on to all their trading records for longer than the traditional seven-year tax period.



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