Our South Thames area winners revealed
The winners of our South Thames regional awards were revealed during a presentation evening this week (Tuesday, July 17, 2018) at Squires Garden Centre – Badshot Lea.
The title of Garden Centre of the Year in the Destination Garden Centre (DGC) category was awarded to Haskins Garden Centre – Roundstone and the Garden Centre (GC) category award went to Squires Garden Centre – Hersham.
This was our first regional awards meeting of the month and it was a great success. We had a fantastic turn out and garden centres from the region sent multiple members of staff to the event who were all actively engaged in the presentations and were able to take lots of info back with them to share with the rest of their teams.
Our inspections are the core of our association and they help drive members’ standards across all areas of their business including customer service, merchandising, plant quality and marketing. They’re also a great way for our member centres to collaborate with each other and share ideas. It was also great to see prospective new members come along and find out what they can benefit from when they join.
We’d like to offer thanks to Squires Garden Centre – Badshot Lea for being brilliant hosts and congratulate all our very deserving award-winners, who were inspected byGordon Emslie.
Other awards on the night included The Barton Grange Trophy for Commercial Innovation and Creativity, which was awarded to Haskins Garden Centre – Ferndown and the Dick Allen Award for Most Improved Centre, which went to Henry Street Garden Centre.
Our North Thames regional meeting took place last night (Wednesday, July 18) and the North East and North West meeting will take place tonight (Thursday, July 19) at Barton Grange Garden Centre.
The Wales & West regional awards meeting will take place on Tuesday, July 24 at Whitehall Garden Centre – Whitchurch and the Midlands awards meeting will take place on Thursday, July 26 at Brookfields, Nottingham.
The Scotland and Northern Ireland regional awards meeting will take place on Wednesday, August 29 at Simpsons Garden Centre, Inverness.
The full results for the South Thames region area awards are as follows for the GC and DGC categories:
Garden Centre of the Year: Squires Garden Centre – Hersham (GC) and Haskins Garden Centre – Roundstone (DGC)
Customer Service Award for Best Customer Service: Garsons Garden Centre – Titchfield
Environment and Community Award: Stewarts Garden Centre – Christchurch
The Barton Grange Trophy for Commercial Innovation and Creativity: Haskins Garden Centre – Ferndown
The Dick Allen Award for Most Improved Centre: Henry Street Garden Centre
The ifse Award for Catering Excellence for Best Garden Centre Restaurant: Squires Garden Centre – Hersham (GC) and Haskins Garden Centre – Roundstone (DGC)
The GIMA Award for Best Garden Products Retailer: Squires Garden Centre – Hersham (GC) and Haskins Garden Centre – Ferndown (DGC)
Best Indoor Lifestyle Retailer: Squires Garden Centre – Long Ditton (GC) and Garsons Garden Centre – Esher (DGC)
Best Outdoor Living Retailer: Joint winners (GC) Knights Plant & Life – Godstone, Squires Garden Centre – Cobham and Squires Garden Centre – Hersham and joint winners (DGC) Garsons Garden Centre – Esher and Garsons Garden Centre – Titchfield