Vol. 8, Issue 1 | March 2017 Message From Your President John Zaplatynsky With our next face-to-face meeting taking place during IGCC in Niagara Falls, Canada, the Board of Directors has had discussions behind the scenes to set some planning into motion. Having last held a strategic planning session in 2012, the Board felt it […]
IGCA Congress 2016
An annual Congress held for one week between August and October, each year in a different host country. This comprises of a business meeting, which elects officials and administers the affairs of the Association, a concentrated business study tour for the younger generation of garden centre employees, managers and directors, and an excellent social programme. […]
International Event Listing
IGCA is your resource for a list of events from our member countries. Please check back regularly for updates. 2016 August 2016 August 21-26, 2016 – IGCA Congress, Zurich, Switzerland […]
March 2015: Update from Switzerland 2
Vol. 7, Issue 1 | March 2015 IGCA Meeting in Beautiful Switzerland By Othmar Ziswiler At the end of February we hosted 23 IGCA delegates from 15 different countries in Switzerland. The main focus of the meeting was the Swiss congress in 2016. The group visited several garden centers and they made sure that all […]
March 2015: Report from Australia
Vol. 7, Issue 1 | March 2015 Garden RELEAF a Winner for Australian Garden Centres By Leigh Siebler As I write this report I am looking forward with great anticipation to our garden RELEAF promotion on March 7 & 8. This is year one for us and we have over 100 garden centres and […]
E-News: June 2015
Vol. 7, Issue 2 | June 2015 Message From Your President Rachel Doyle Our congress in Denmark is fast approaching. We know that Steen, Per and their team are working hard at putting the final touches to a very exciting itinerary. We are all looking forward to meeting with you for a week of […]
June 2015: Update from UK
Vol. 7, Issue 2 | June 2015 News from the UK By Iain Wylie Now that the general election is out of the way, the weather continues to be the critical factor for sales at UK garden centres this spring. So far, we haven’t seen the extremes of weather experienced a couple of years ago. While […]
June 2015: Report from Australia
Vol. 7, Issue 2 | June 2015 Australia Down Under By Leigh Siebler We are heading into Winter now but it’s a time to plan and get ready for Spring. The end of the financial year should see garden centres with sales growth and importantly a welcome increase in customer numbers and average sale. Melbourne […]
June 2015: Update from Ireland
Vol. 7, Issue 2 | June 2015 Update from Ireland By Fergal Doyle Against Irish retail figures for Q1 2015, the garden centre sector is seeing growth of +22% (Overall Retail +4.37%) revelling in a period of sustained mild weather. The mood in the greater retail space is that we have arrived at a […]
June 2015: Update from USA
Vol. 7, Issue 2 | June 2015 Ebert’s Gets Customers Excited to Shop with Pre-Spring Tour By Jeff Morey Ebert’s annual pre-spring “behind-the-scenes” tour of its production facilities taps local residents’ pent-up desires to garden and jump-starts sales when the store – located in the Midwestern U.S. state of Wisconsin, in the city of […]