Best Garden Centre in The North!
Barton Grange Wins Best Garden Centre in The North!
Great news! We’re thrilled to announce we’ve been named Destination Garden Centre of the Year at the Garden Centre Association (GCA) North Region Awards. It’s the second year in a row we’ve won the title which judges garden centres from across the North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland and the North East.
We also scooped a string of other top awards at the ceremony which was held at Moss & Moor in Ilkley on Wednesday July 17th. These include the Plantaria (Ruxley Rose) prize for Outstanding Outdoor Plant Area Displays and the GIMA Award for Best Garden Products Retailer.
We were also honoured to collect the Indoor Lifestyle Award for Best Indoor Lifestyle Retailer and won best Food Hall/Farm Shop Award.
Our general manager Russell Winteridge says: “Wow, what an incredible achievement! We’re so proud to have won so many awards and be crowned the best garden centre in the North. It’s thanks to the passion, dedication and hard work of our amazing team that makes our garden centre such a winner. This is a real honour and we look forward to the national finals!”
Barton Grange also came second in the Ian Boardman Award for Best Indoor Plants Retailer, the Outdoor Living Award for Best Outdoor Living Retailer, The Paul Cooling Award for Environment & Sustainability, the Customer Service Award for Best Customer Service and the Barton Grange Trophy for Commercial Innovation and Creativity. And we took third place in the Award for Catering Excellence for Best Garden Centre Restaurant.
Peter Burks, GCA CEO says: “Our North Area Awards Meeting was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who joined us for the event. It was brilliant to see so many members and their teams listening so keenly to what our Inspector Alyson Haywood had to say and taking on board her feedback.”
Alyson made unannounced visits to member garden centres in the North area across a 12-week period. She says: “It’s wonderful to see how well GCA member garden centres in this region have performed this year. Each centre should be very proud of its achievements. It’s also lovely to see members embracing the inspection process and using the feedback they receive in a positive way to drive their businesses even further forward.”
The GCA represents nearly 200 garden centres nationwide and each year awards the centres that set the benchmark for high retailing standards within the industry.
