Garden

Living and desing trends - Plant-Style-Group

More innovative and more international together

Scheurich and Soendgen have merged to form the Plant-Style-Group. Both brands will remain unchanged and should profit from synergies – in production, in sales, in logistics and, above all, when it comes to innovation. …

Garden12. March 2021

Gardenex

The EU remains the most important market

There is a big year ahead for Gardenex and its members, says Amanda Sizer Barrett, director general of the federation, when asked by DIY …

Garden12. March 2021

Gardena

Explosion of demand

Gardena reports double-digit growth rates. That’s not only down to the industry-wide coronavirus effect. After all, the brand has doubled its sales over five …

Garden1. December 2020

Italy - Rabensteiner

A clear line

The greenhouse builder Rabensteiner has erected a garden centre for Floricoltura Brambilla in Vimercate which conveys the character of the traditional plant producer

Garden1. December 2020

Compost Urbain

Kitchen composting

This year’s Gardena garden award went to Compost Urbain. It is no accident that the young designer Malcolm Hammer developed his idea in the densely populated …

Garden27. November 2020

Volmary

Sweets? Vegetables!

They look just like sweets and chocolates but they are snack vegetables: Volmary’s Candy-Bar concept brings together five varieties of mini vegetables, in which…

Garden11. August 2020

Landi

Reliability as brand core

Landi, the retail division of the Swiss agricultural cooperative Fenaco, is growing with a strategy which hasn’t changed for years: small on assortment, b…

Garden11. August 2020

Benelux - The Netherlands

“We are a 365-day business”

For many retailers in the European garden segment, the Dutch cooperative Intratuin sets the standard with its concept. In doing so it goes beyond the …

Garden11. August 2020

Bellaflora

A green experience oasis

Bellaflora, the leader in the Austrian garden centre market, is remodelling its stores based on a new concept. A variety of themed worlds featuring p…

Garden15. June 2020

Flowers and plants market

All in all a good year

That’s how Andreas Löbke from Co-Concept describes last year’s market for flowers and plants. Here we document excerpts of his market evaluation on behalf of…

Garden13. February 2020