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National community gardening campaign Cultivation Street is bringing together garden centres and community gardening projects under a new scheme. Source: Garden1

National community gardening campaign Cultivation Street is bringing together garden centres and community gardening projects under a new scheme. Source: Garden1

B&Q owner Kingfisher said it wants a £500m increase in sustainable annual profit in five years time. Source: Garden1

Consumer specialist Christina Bouzala has joined Bayer Garden as group brand manager with the remit of driving a consumer led brand strategy across the company’s garden care portfolio. Source: Garden1

Spring 2016 pre-orders of Bord na Móna Growise, the brand of peat-based to peat-free growing media and soil improvers, has put the company 35 per cent ahead of sales, the company has said. Source: Garden1

Spring 2016 pre-orders of Bord na Móna Growise, the brand of peat-based to peat-free growing media and soil improvers, has put the company 35 per cent ahead of sales, the company has said. Source: Garden1

The Prop 65 listing would be based solely on erroneous IARC classification, would contradict agency’s own 2007 assessment, and would defy scientific conclusions of U.S. EPA and regulators around the world, Monsanto has claimed. Source: Garden1

The categories with the biggest increase in sales during last year (2015) at garden across the country have been announced by the Garden Centre Association as part of its Barometer of Trade report. Source: Garden1

RHS Licensing plans to license educational toys, apparel, accessories and an expanded garden category in 2016. Source: Garden1

Primary Capital-owned Thompson & Morgan is off the market after failing to find a suitable buyer. Source: Garden1

Brantano UK shoes, which has concessions at 20+ garden centres, has gone into administration. Source: Garden1

Britons are saving an average £268 a year by digging for their dinner plate, according to new research. Source: Garden1

Wild bird food sales took off this week as the cold snap hit but have been disappointing so far this winter, say biggest brands. Source: Garden1

For 2016, Bransford Webbs Plant Company has four new Primula varieties in a range of colours. Source: Garden1

Bell Nursery vice president production Cole Mangum said neonicotinoids are a “hot issue” in the US as retail customer Home Depot phases out plants grown with the insecticide. Source: Garden1

Competition among DIYs and large garden centre chains is set to toughen up as Australian retailer Wesfarmers buys Homebase, according to former Garden Centre Group chief executive Nicholas Marshall. Wesfarmers’ £340m offer for Homebase was a “knockout blow” for his interest, said Marshall, with the City valuing Homebase at around £200m. Source: Garden1

The garden retail market continues to get harder because of increased competition from discount retailers, Fresh@Burcot owner and former Garden Industry Manufacturers Association director Neil Gow has said. Source: Garden1

Monsanto business director Gary Philpotts has said the firm is “confident in the clear scientific consensus about the safety of glyphosate, in agreement with the findings of the European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) comprehensive review published in November 2015”. Source: Garden1

Cutting staff, an issue that the new National Living Wage (NLW) has brought up the agenda, could lead to more violent crime in garden centres such as incidents seen over Christmas at Beckworth Emporium and Brigg Garden Centre. Source: Garden1

Australian retail group makes big offer to buy Hombase. Source: Garden1