Vol. 7, Issue 1 | March 2015 Hello from Germany! By Jutta Lenz Record attendance: Our winter conference with the title “Future of Gardencentres” in Münster from 17th-20th January 2015 was very successful with about 270 delegates. Martina Mensing-Meckelburg was voted for the new president of our association and replaced Eckard Heinemann. Besides our conference day […]
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March 2015: Update from Ireland
Vol. 7, Issue 1 | March 2015 Update from Ireland By Fergal Doyle The mood in Ireland regarding customer spend remains positive, with Q4 2014 recording and annualised like-for-like growth in sales of 4.22%, which was the largest quarterly gain in the Irish Retail Industry since Q2 2007! Like-for-like sales for Qtr. 4 in […]
March 2015: Update from Italy
Vol. 7, Issue 1 | March 2015 News from Italy By Martina Schullian We finished the third national AICG congress that has been held in Stesa – Lago Maggiore Piemonte, on 14-15 January 2015. The congress was very successful with more than 300 participants. We had two busy and interesting days in a beautiful location just […]
March 2015: Update from Japan
Vol. 7, Issue 1 | March 2015 Report from Japan By Akihiro Ozaki A lot of snow has been falling in the northern and mountainous areas of Japan in this year. It is a very cold year, but there have been many days with nice weather in the plains from the east to the […]
March 2015: Update from Switzerland 1
Vol. 7, Issue 1 | March 2015 Insider Tip: Save the Dates for 2016 By Erwin Meier-Honegger On 5 and 6 February the fourth edition of the Garden Retail Experience did take place near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. There was a master class in ‘Garden Centre Retailing’ with lots of information to increase sales, and […]
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: Update from UK
Vol. 7, Issue 1 | March 2015 News from the UK By Iain Wylie UK GCA members finished 2014 with a good season of Christmas trading and ended the year approximately 9% ahead of the previous twelve months. This was in no small part due to the greatly improved weather in March, April and May […]
March 2015: Update from US
Vol. 7, Issue 1 | March 2015 Painting Parties Pull People into Garden Centres to Shop in the USA By Jeff Morey Milaeger’s store in the Midwestern U.S. state of Wisconsin – the city of Racine – is a social gathering spot during its two-hour evening Painting Parties held monthly, excluding the busy time […]
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E-News: March 2014
March 2014 Number 21, March 2014 President’s Message As the first e-news of 2014, let me begin by saying Happy New Year! The IGCA board and administrators met in Denmark this past December, and we would like to thank Per Boisen Andersen and Steen Vinkler for their hospitality during our stay. We were able to […]