Westland are leading suppliers of garden care products, including growing media, soil conditioners, mulches and plant foods, and this year they moved into weedkillers for the first time. Thier innovative approach to product developement, packaging and marketing has earned them a host of awards.
Mr Fothergill's is one of the UK's best-known packet seed brands, with a history of product and merchandising innovation. For 2008 the brand has had a dramatic makeover, with new packaging, new sub-ranges and a host of new point of sale ideas and materials, including new euro-hook stands
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Gardman are award-winning suppliers of the UK's most comprehensive range of garden products and accessories and the market-leading brand in wild bird care products. They have been voted by GCA members as Supplier of the Year for the past six years in the annual GIMA Awards.
MorePeople are specialist practitioners with a deep background in horticulture and a passion for recruitment. Thier Garden & Leisure Division deals soley with growers, nurseries, garden centers and the landscape and amenity sectors, covering recruitment needs from supervisory through to director level.
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‘Scotts Miracle-Gro is delighted to once again sponsor The Greatest Garden Care team award but this time under its famous EverGreen brand name. The Greatest Awards are an exciting mid summer event that will bring together some of the best teams from the premier garden centres around the country. Last year, The Greatest Awards demonstrated that team effort on the shop floor really can make a big difference to sales and profitability in the garden care area. Hopefully many more garden centres will put in the same effort and reap the rewards obtained by setting realistic goals and by keeping brand leaders such as EverGreen in the forefront of large and impelling displays. We wish all entrants good luck, safe in the knowledge that all efforts in improving displays and offers will bring their own rewards for their businesses, not just recognition in The Greatest Awards’. Keith Boad, Sales Director Consumer Business Group, Scotts Miracle-Gro
‘We recognize that customer service and good advice at retail level is vital to success in the garden trade. So many purchasing decisions are made at the point of sale and rely heavily upon information and advice received whilst in the shop. That’s why we have put training and information right at the heart of the Bayer Garden ‘We Can Help’ campaign. The Greatest Customer Care team award fits perfectly with the ‘We Can Help’ objectives, encouraging retail training and in-store information and support so we are delighted to be associated with such a worthwhile award’.
Jane Lawler, Head of Marketing
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Garden News, the most practical gardening weekly for consumers, is happy to team up with Garden Trade News and The Greatest Team to find The Greatest Plant Sales Team within garden centres across the UK. Our readers are always very vocal about their favourites!
Brother UK is the latest sponsor to put their backing behind the Greatest Awards 2008. In addition to sponsoring the Large Garden Centre Team of the Year category, Brother will be giving away a P-touch GL-200 labelling machine to all guests in a free goodie bag at the Greatest Gala Garden Party and Awards ceremony on July 15th.
'Our association with the Greatest Awards seems a logical way of repaying the industry for their support of our GL-200 garden labeller which is proving very popular with the domestic and professional gardeners alike' Mike Kelly, General Manager - Identification Division, Brother UK
