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Wesfarmers-owned Bunnings/Homebase has updated all exterior signs to move away from ”lowest prices guaranteed” and educate UK shoppers about Bunnings’ offering. Source: Garden1

The garden industry must be quicker to adapt to consumer pressure surrounding the issue of single use plastic packaging says Dan Robson, co-founder of Green Digit, which manufactures and distributes SeedCell seed pods that employ patented sustainable packaging technology. Source: Garden1

Agent Simon Quinton Smith of Quinton Edwards says the has been many enquiries for the nine Home & Garden garden centres, which went into administration last month. Source: Garden1

‘How can the garden industry cut the use of plastics’, ‘What lies behind the success of the fastest growing garden retail outlets’, and ‘How can plant suppliers and buyers together meet the Xylella challenge’ are just some of the big questions that will be tackled at Garden 360 – the must attend conference for the UK garden industry. Source: Garden1

The Joint Administrators of Countrywide Farmers PLC – David Pike, Mark Orton and Will Wright from KPMG’s Restructuring practice and their agents Hilco Capital – are contining to trade the 48 store portfolio of Countrywide Farmers following their appointment on 7 March 2018. Source: Garden1

Gardman said Kings Lynn is fully operational again with over 1,200 stock-keeping units (SKUs) available. Source: Garden1

Twelve months on from Easter weekend 2017 and sales have finally picked up to almost level those from 12 months ago. Source: Garden1

Bunnings has drafted in consultants to advise its senior leadership team in the UK as the Australian DIY giant attempts to revive its British business. Source: Garden1

The largest Dutch Intratuin now has a mega restaurant and a children’s play paradise including a climbing wall after the refurbishment of the garden centre in the Netherlands was completed just before Easter. Source: Garden1

London Stone is opening a new showroom in Bounds Green, North London, expanding their showroom portfolio to four sites, located around Greater London and the Home Counties. Source: Garden1

Squire’s chairman Colin Squire said the spring had been “difficult” on Radio Four’s flagship consumer programme You and Yours on 12 April. Source: Garden1

Organic gardeners Bob Flowerdew, Joy Larkcom and Alys Fowler, Coronation Street’s Thelma Barlow and vegan grower Iain Tolhurst have asked Garden Organic trustees not to sell Ryton Organic Gardens. Source: Garden1

Garden industry mail order business Bakker has been taken over by a group of Dutch entrepreneurs following its collapse into administration. Source: Garden1

A four-time bankrupt has been handed a 14-year bankruptcy restriction for obtaining credit without disclosing to lenders he had been banned from doing so. Source: Garden1

The £1 million conversion of a horticultural glasshouse to a garden centre restaurant at Newcastle’s Plants Plus Garden Centre is close to being unveiled. Source: Garden1

The North Yorkshire garden centre caught fire on 6 April. Source: Garden1

Under new laws on reporting gender pay, companies with more than 250 staff have to publish data on the average difference between male and female employees. Source: Garden1

While many garden centres suffered severe sales drops in March because of poor weather, the early Easter helped high street retailers increase sales by 1.4% on a like-for-like basis compared to March 2017. Source: Garden1

Thompson & Morgan/Branded Garden Products has filed accounts for 14 months to 31 August 2017 showing sales of £39m, with a loss of £1.52m. Source: Garden1

The National Trust says it will phase out selling single use plastics at its places by 2022. Source: Garden1