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With the new 2017 Rating list being announced on Friday, and with some serious concerns about the new appeals process being introduced by the Government, Malcolm Scott Consultants and the Rating team at Harris Lamb are working together to try and help manage the amounts payable by garden centres and to work with them during the six-month consultation period to lodge relevant appeals. Source: Garden1

Another scientific study has found glyphosate is not a probable carcinogenic, as concluded by International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2015. Source: Garden1

Klondyke Group garden centres has a new design on all new delivery vehicles. Source: Garden1

Klondyke Group garden centres has a new design on all new delivery vehicles. Source: Garden1

Site maintenance equipment supplier Kersten UK has issued an advice note on glyphosate regulations changes. Source: Garden1

Bunnings chief executive John Gillam says improved results at Homebase will not be instant. Source: Garden1

Crest Garden’s Kent & Stowe have designed and developed a range of ‘Know Your Soil’ tools for soil types which are compacted and considered harder to work. Source: Garden1

Garden centres need to look at maximising warehousing space value, Malcolm Scott Consultants planner Chris Primett has said, after Frosts converted 960sq m storage buildings at Millets Farm, Woburn Sands and Willington into retail, play barn and catering. Source: Garden1

Bunnings/Homebase, B&Q, Wyevale and Dobbies are transforming their offers after takeovers and management changes, with the big four all under pressure to compete against each other and justify their price tags. Source: Garden1

Shopping villages and local buying control to be utilised. Source: Garden1

The 50+ women’s clothing market brings opportunities for retailers, a new report has found. Source: Garden1

A book of tips for the green-fingered, accompanied by Heath Robinson’s inventive and humorous cartoons has been reissued by the Bodleian Libraries. Source: Garden1

The new edition of the Home Improvement Multiples Market Report – UK 2016-2020 Analysis said the UK home improvement multiples market increased by around four per cent in 2015, in value terms (retail sale price). Source: Garden1

Retail sales volumes fell in the year to September following last month’s increase according to the latest CBI monthly Distributive Trades Survey. Source: Garden1

Thompson & Morgan has joined the Google Certified Shops programme. Source: Garden1

The sale of Bayer Garden to French firm SBM Développement (SBM) will be completed on October 4, meaning that the product range and all 250 positions in Europe and North America will transfer to SBM at the start of the month. Source: Garden1

The sale of Bayer Garden to French firm SBM Développement (SBM) will be completed in October, meaning that the product range and all 250 positions in Europe and North America will transfer to SBM at the start of the month. Source: Garden1

Garden Centre Association August sales were 4.4 per cent up on August 2015. Source: Garden1

Dobbies has planning consent on three sites – Braehead, Dundee and Liverpool. Source: Garden1

Granngården has implemented RELEX supply chain management technology. Source: Garden1