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Consumer confidence is creeping back as financial strains ease up, but fears of higher inflation and Brexit uncertainty have put a damper on the overall outlook, expert findings reveal. Source: Garden1

Suttons Consumer Products has seen operating profits shoot up 179% to £567,000 in the year to the end of July 2016 and is handing out £500 staff bonuses. Source: Garden1

A panel of independent experts tasked by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review the agency’s cancer findings for glyphosate is due to meet on Tuesday. Source: Garden1

Growth in online sales of gardening products have outpaced the overall garden products market by some distance in recent years. Source: Garden1

SS Agri Power, the biofuels producer, has signalled the seriousness of its plans for PlantGrowTM by switching its focus to PlantGrowTM production rather than electricity generation. Source: Garden1

The Independent Transport Commission (ITC) has found people are making fewer driving trips but are driving further and for longer, on average. Source: Garden1

Jo Alexander holds onto its position as the UK’s best performing garden centre website in Q4, according to the latest quarterly testing of the online operations of operators undertaken by specialist Sitemorse exclusively for Horticulture Week. Source: Garden1

ECHA has heard presentations by leading european and world health and pesticide agencies at a meeting in Helsinki, Finland. Source: Garden1

Blue Diamond will hit £100m sales in 2017, up from £94m this year, helped by a focus on attracting high-demographic customers and making sure the plant and food offers are the best possible, managing director Alan Roper has said. Source: Garden1

Gardening trends for 2017 could include cacti, urban gardening, living walls and unusual foods, a round-up of reports from analysts and retailers has shown. Source: Garden1

Versatile space and focus on stock turn highlighted. Source: Garden1

Tony Ward, former King Seeds sales and marketing director passed away on 5 December 2016. Source: Garden1

Wesfarmers has today announced that long-serving Bunnings chief executive officer John Gillam is stepping down as managing director of Bunnings after 12 years in the role. Source: Garden1

The HTA Annual General Meeting has seen Adam Taylor elected as vice president until the 2017 AGM, when he will become president. Source: Garden1

Horticulture Week is delighted to announce the names of the outstanding businesses that have made it to the shortlist for the Garden Retail Awards 2017. Source: Garden1

Pleydell Smithyman has completed a revamp of Marlows garden centre. Source: Garden1

Big trees, pop-ups, homegrown and a wider number of varieties are trends in Christmas tree sales this year. Source: Garden1

UK retail sales increased by 0.6 per cent on a like-for-like basis from November 2015, when they had decreased 0.4 per cent from the preceding year. Source: Garden1

Stewarts Garden Centres has bought Abbey Garden Centre in Titchfield, Hampshire from the Q Garden Company. Source: Garden1

Garden centre group Blue Diamond is taking over Polhill’s Coton Orchard garden centre in Cambridge. Source: Garden1