Garden centres have become one of Britain’s great retail success stories. At a time when many parts of the high street continue to struggle for footfall, garden centres provide a unique and vibrant destination that combines plants, advice, cafés, retail and...
Many big high street names began 2026 with a continuing gloomy outlook reminiscent of Eeyore seeking his lost tail. Primark, the doyen of the fast fashion sector issued a profit warning and saw an 11% fall in parent ABF shares. Tesco, still our leading grocer, saw...
Paying a late Sunday afternoon visit to my local Garden Centre last week, I was so impressed with the impact and colour on display in the plant area. The contrast with a visit to a similar garden centre on a Sunday in July twenty or thirty years ago is noteworthy....
The British Garden Centres acquisition of Hayes Garden World is just the latest in a long series of bold and ambitious additions to what is now the largest (as measured by number of sites) garden centre groups in the UK. It serves to demonstrate the success of an...
I’m proud to be supporting the new YPHA initiative, LAUNCH SUCCESS Many young professionals embarking on a career in industry, services or consumer goods rightly expect diverse skills training throughout their early career along with the experience and on the...
See you at GLEE in 23? In the 80s, when I first attended GLEE, the show stretched across several halls of the NEC and included pet, garden furniture and landscaping as well as core garden and gifts. It represented a key point in the buying calendar and a massive...
