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The UK home décor market is set to outperform all other sectors and account for 12.1 per cent of the homewares market by 2021, according to Verdict Retail’s latest Home Retail Series report. Source: Garden1

Dobbies Garden Centres chairman Andrew Bracey says study of Horticulture Week’s annual top 100 garden centres analysis has helped him understand the sector. Source: Garden1

Good weather has led to a late season uplift in August garden retail sales, with August bank holiday possibly one of the best ever. Source: Garden1

Knights Garden Centres have appointed NedFox to roll-out a new cloud-based ePOS system. Source: Garden1

Bayer Garden intends to “rejuvenate” the houseplant sector in 2017. Source: Garden1

Gardening clubs and horticultural societies from Dorset, Somerset and beyond are reviewing the success of this year’s flower and horticultural show calendar, as they prepare for the second Flower Show Forum of the year, being held at Castle Gardens on Thursday 15 September. Source: Garden1

Cardwell Garden Centre have painted a traditional red telephone box gold in support of a young leukaemia sufferer who is trying to raise awareness of childhood cancers. Source: Garden1

Joe Lydon has won the Garland/Worth Gardening ‘sales agent of the year’ award. Source: Garden1

A new supply chain service for garden centres and garden retail suppliers has been launched by a partnership including specialist in product sourcing, development and distribution, Highgrove, and supply chain infrastructure provider, Oakland International. Source: Garden1

Retail sales volumes grew in the year to August following last month’s fall, according to the latest CBI quarterly Distributive Trades Survey. Source: Garden1

Westland Horticulture have estimated it has gained £2m in sales in wild bird care as it launches 2017 ranges. Source: Garden1

Three Counties has appointed former Philadelphia cheese marketer Jane Furze as head of RHS Malvern Spring Festival. Source: Garden1

Andrew Bracey has been appointed chairman of Dobbies, the UK’s second largest garden centre retailer, headquartered in Scotland. Source: Garden1

Outdoor living product company La Hacienda has raised £1,400 for Kidney Research. Source: Garden1

Barton Grange garden centres, nurseries, landscaping and hotel has seen sales rise in the year to 31 January 2016. Source: Garden1

Haskins Garden Centres turnover is up, as is profitability in newly released accounts to 28 February 2016. Source: Garden1

Maple Ridge Garden Centre, formerly known as Aylings Garden Centre, went into administration in May 2016 but has now had an offer accepted for the business. Source: Garden1

German growing media company Klasmann’s new sustainability report says its emissions from peat extraction are “considerably lower than previously assumed”. Source: Garden1

Twenty teams took part in a Horticultural Golfing Society fundraiser at The Royal Automobile Club’s 350-acre Woodcote Park estate, Epsom, Surrey, to raise funds for Greenfingers charity. Source: Garden1

Wesfarmers 2016 full-year results were released in Perth, Australia on 24 August, with 7.5 per cent like-for-like increases in Homebase transactions, returns of £512m in four months, earnings of £0.5m and with £60m spent on transformation, and up to six Bunnings Warehouse UK stores planned for the next financial year. Source: Garden1