Barton Grange and Castle Gardens
are the ‘dazzling’ national winners of our 2015 annual Christmas competition.
The garden centres were judged
to have the best festive displays in the country by us and will receive their
awards at our golden jubilee conference in January.
We announced the regional
winners of our Christmas display competition at the end of November and were
very impressed with the standard of entries this year.
Following this, the area winners
were all judged for a second time and these two national winners were selected
at the end of last week as the duo with the most dazzling displays.
We’d like to heartily
congratulate Barton Grange in Lancashire, who won in the Destination Garden
Centre category, and Castle Gardens in Dorset who scooped the top prize in the
Garden Centre section of the awards.
The garden centres were judged
on the innovation, inspiration and excitement created from the way their
Christmas products are displayed. The range of products available,
accessibility, how easy it is for customers to find and select products and
‘wow factor’ were also taken into consideration in an assessment of the overall
commercial proposition.
Andy Campbell, our inspector and
judge of the national Christmas displays competition, said: “I last carried out
the national judging of the Christmas competition several years ago and since
then the creativity and commerciality of the regional finalists has just got
stronger and stronger.
“I have just visited 15 garden
centres over eight days and I am hugely impressed by the professionalism of
their Christmas merchandising and displays. It is clear to me that garden
centres lead the way in this field.”
The runners up in the
Destination Garden Centre category were Bents in Cheshire and Whitehall, Lacock
in Wiltshire. In the Garden Centre category, the runners up were Burleydam
Garden Centre in Cheshire and Pennells Lincoln.
Our annual conference will take
place at The Grand Hotel in Brighton from January 24 until 27, 2016.
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