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 […]
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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 […]
September 2015: Update from Germany
Vol. 7, Issue 3 | September 2015 News from Germany By Jutta Lenz This year the sales in the garden centres are compared to the bad last year only by 1% plus. Fruit and vegetable garden is doing well but nursery garden is very difficult this year – only fruit trees are running good. The buying resistance […]
E-News: March 2015
Vol. 7, Issue 1 | March 2015 Message From Your President Rachel Doyle Greetings from Ireland. It was great to meet with the board and administrators in Zurich. During our meeting, the Danish garden centre committee Per and Steen gave us an excellent presentation on a very exciting programme of events they have organized […]
March 2015: Update from the IGCA Office
Vol. 7, Issue 1 | March 2015 Update from the IGCA Office By Julia Ricottone Last month, the IGCA Board and Country Administrators met in Zurich, Switzerland for IGCA’s annual Administrator’s meeting. From February 22-25, 2015, meetings took place, as well as a preview of what we can expect at the 2016 IGCA Congress. […]
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 […]
March 2015: Update from Canada
Vol. 7, Issue 1 | March 2015 Spring is Coming in Canada By Julia Ricottone It has been a cold, snowy winter in most of Canada, with many cities breaking records for low temperatures in February. However, those living in British Columbia have been experience spring-like temperatures. This will prove to result in an […]
March 2015: Update from Czech Republic
Vol. 7, Issue 1 | March 2015 New Year in Czech Republic By Michal Ferenčík The beginning of the year starts with the meeting of the middle management. Members discuss what to prepare for customers this year and how to implement changes at all our garden centres. From this meeting and also from the meeting of owners […]
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