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 […]
Category: 2015
September 2015: Update from USA
Vol. 7, Issue 3 | September 2015 AmericanHort is very excited to join the IGCA! By Sherry Johnson AmericanHort serves businesses across the spectrum of the horticulture industry. With over 800 member businesses engaged in retail, we’re one of the largest garden center associations in North America. The industry is very optimistic as the economy […]
June 2015: Update from Japan
Vol. 7, Issue 2 | June 2015 Report from Japan By Akihiro Ozaki A new organization called “indoor green promotion council” has been established. Its goal is to increase the demand for flowers and green spaces, after the downturn that happened in July of last year. The council has a mandate to improve greening in indoor offices, commercial facilities, […]
September 2015: Update from Ireland
Vol. 7, Issue 3 | September 2015 Update from Ireland By Fergal Doyle Garden retail is mostly gearing up for Halloween and Christmas now and Autumn has turned out to be very slow with sales mainly due to a lack of momentum coming from a poor summer. Despite this the industry and country in terms […]
June 2015: Update from Denmark
Vol. 7, Issue 2 | June 2015 Report from Denmark By Steen Vinkler After a cold wet spring, the sun is now shinning here in Denmark and we are really looking forward to welcoming you all to the IGCA Congress August 9th-14th. This year’s spring has been very difficult for the Danish garden centres. We have […]
September 2015: Update from South Africa
Vol. 7, Issue 3 | September 2015 Hello Spring! By Gerdie Olivier After a surprisingly mild winter, spring arrived in early August. This is the start of our peak trading period for garden centres in South Africa. Unfortunately with South Africa being a water scarce country, various regions are facing strict water restrictions. For […]
June 2015: Update from Switzerland 2
Vol. 7, Issue 2 | June 2015 Getting Plants into the News By Othmar Ziswiler From March through Easter, the Swiss newspapers wrote a lot about gardens, plants and the awakening nature. After Easter the media interest in garden topics slows down and this year we wanted to do something to continue the interest. We […]
E-News: December 2015
Vol. 7, Issue 4 | December 2015 Message From Your President John Zaplatynsky December 6 – 9 the IGCA Board of Directors the country Administrators met in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada for the annual winter meeting. The meetings were held in Niagara Falls as it will be the location for the IGCA Congress in September, 2017. The […]
E-News: September 2015
Vol. 7, Issue 3 | September 2015 Message From Your President John Zaplatynsky As I begin my two year term as president of the IGCA, I would like to thank my fellow board members for their confidence in my accepting this challenge. I would also like to extend my hearty thanks to Rachel Doyle for […]
September 2015: Update from the IGCA Office
Vol. 7, Issue 3 | September 2015 Update from the IGCA Office By Julia Ricottone It has been one month since we saw each other in Denmark, and we hope you enjoyed your time there as much as we did. Perhaps you brought back some new ideas to use at your garden centre – […]