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Former Hillier managing director Andy McIndoe, has teamed up with Vitax to become its gardening expert for the new Vitax Garden World website. Source: Garden1

British Retail Consortium/ KPMG figures show UK retail sales increased by 1.7 per cent on a like-for-like basis from October 2015, when they had decreased 0.2 per cent from the preceding year. Source: Garden1

British Retail Consortium/KPMG figures show UK retail sales increased by 1.7 per cent on a like-for-like basis from October 2015, when they had decreased 0.2 per cent from the preceding year. Source: Garden1

The GCA is allowing HTA members to access its GCA GROW (Garden Retail Online Workshops) e-learning package. Source: Garden1

Retailers will lose £1 billion of goods to shoplifters in the final two months of the year, according to a report from Checkpoint Systems, which is 38 per cent of all annual shop thefts. Source: Garden1

STIGA/Global Garden Products (GGP), one of Europe’s largest makers and sellers of powered garden equipment for residential and commercial use, has secured an €80m receivables finance facility from HSBC and ABN AMRO. Source: Garden1

Andy King has joined Evans Cycles after John Cleland replaced him at Dobbies Garden Centres following Tesco’s sale of the chain. Source: Garden1

Total like-for-like sales in October were up by +0.7 per cent as the BDO High Street Sales Tracker moved into positive territory for the first time since January 2016. Source: Garden1

A national schools’ science experiment to analyse how seeds grew after spending time, called Rocket Science, which was devised by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in partnership with the UK Space Agency, compared the growth and development of rocket seeds (Eruca sativa) that spent time on the International Space Station (ISS) with Tim Peake, with those that had remained on Earth. Source: Garden1

Market analysts GfK has seen the barbecue market grow by 2.9 per cent in value, (Jan-Sep15 vs Jan-Sep16). Source: Garden1

The first Bunnings Warehouse pilot store will open in mid-February at our existing site in St. Albans Griffiths Way in Hertfordshire, UK and Ireland managing director PJ Davis has revealed. Source: Garden1

The HTA has voiced concern over an invasive flatworm from Brazil that is already a threat to agriculture across France, is spreading through Europe has arrived in the UK. Source: Garden1

“We know the gardening consumer is changing – are we?” was Proven Winners marketing director Marshall Dirks’ challenge to plant sellers at the GrowQuip conference in Warwickshire. Source: Garden1

Latest Companies House results posted by garden centres show the success of the 2015 season. Source: Garden1

The fourth annual Waitrose report is based on millions of purchases in shops and online, with new consumer research and insight from Waitrose buyers and experts and findings include botanical cocktails and vegetable yogurt. Source: Garden1

The World Health Organisation agency International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has warned scientists reviewing glyphosate not to release research documents, after stating the weedkiller is “probably carcinogenic”, newly discovered emails show. Source: Garden1

October was up to 18 per cent up in garden centres. Source: Garden1

Pay as you go bed cards are now available from Joy of Plants with no annual fee. Source: Garden1

Wyevale Garden Centres are launching a new campaign, supported byl research conducted by a children and young adult research specialist, Childwise, to encourage Britain’s gardener’s to plant more trees across the country “in a bid to improve the health and wellbeing of children growing up across a technology-dependent UK”. Source: Garden1

Culcheth Garden Centre near Warrington has been closed for some years and is now to be built on. Source: Garden1