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Offers and Services

Is your business prepared for a possible flu pandemic?

Click here for timely advice!

Click here for information from Rixon Matthews Appleyard on how to risk assess your business.


Heard about this?

Garden Radio

A radio ad campaign that will reach up to 4 million gardeners for only £1,500? Click here.


Stormy weather?

Planalytics

Nobody knows for sure, but Planalytics can provide you with a top line professional service for a bottom-line friendly price. Click here for more.


Meet the press?

IPC Press Briefings

If you really want to see your products in the pages of IPCs leading magazines you need to make your case to the writers and editors. Fidn out how to, here.


Cash flow a problem?

Click here for our new business service

In these difficult economic times, managing cash flow can be extremely challenging. To help our members minimise the impact of the credit crunch, GIMA have teamed up with wk5.com Limited, a business support company to bring you a range of new facilities in particular credit reference reporting, business status monitoring and a free cash flow advice line. Click here for more.


Autumn Fair Rebate

Spring Fair Offer

GIMA members booking for the Autumn Fair (6th – 9th September 2009) at the NEC Birmingham can now enjoy a 10% rebate on their exhibition space. So if you have not already booked then now is your chance and save! Click here for more details



Credit crunched?

Get competitive interest rates from your trusted source of finance here


Brilliant new web advertising offer from Gardenforum here

Click here for a half price offer!


Are you really getting the best deal for your business in Gas and Electricity?

GIMA has, for members, a powerful tool, to help you make powerful savings.
UK Power offer
Click here to plug in to great energy deals


Carbon Management in Your Supply Chain

Click here for more on this burning issue.


Expert Product Testing Panel 2009

Product Testing LogoGarden Answers and Garden News working with GIMA

  1. Would you like your products reviewed and endorsed by experts?
  2. The opportunity for your product to be the Garden Answers/Garden News Product of the Year?
  3. Available exclusively to GIMA Members

Click here for the full story

The GIMA Awards Won! Click here for the whole story


The GIMA New Products Digest is coming back!

The New Product Digest is Back! (This is the front!)

GIMA's New Product Digest for the 2010 season starts here, now.


Opportunity knocks?

Introductions

Click here for the latest listing of opportunities


Plug in to the GRID!

Described by one member as the “biggest initiative and support to members since the GIMA Awards were launched” GRID [Garden Centre Retail Data] is a monthly service supplied directly to GIMA members computers with detailed analysis of garden centre sales figures from the previous month

Click here for the GRID application form

Sample here and application here.

The GIMA Guide to
Personnel Management

GIMA Guide to Personnel Management

Struggling to keep up to date with
employment legislation? Don’t have your own HR department? Look no further than the GIMA Guide to Personnel Management,
containing clear, concise advice.
More here.


To see the GIMA Special Report
on the Growretail site click on the image below:

Click here to go to growretail


Rising risks
rising insurance costs?

Both things you could do without. What you need is Risk Management. This is a first and positive step to reducing costs within your business. Identify the problem, seek a resolution then insure what remains. It all makes sense, but how many of us are doing it? Contact the GIMA office for more details or phone Jayne Mansfield on 01482 577200, mobile 0798 026 2493.

Rxon Matthews Appleyard


How is it for you?

GIMA is always seeking to improve services to the membership, enhance perceived value of membership and make sure that GIMA continues to cater for the needs of its members, now and into the future.

What do we want to find out? – Everything you want to tell us, so click here to say what you think. It might be:

  • How happy you are
  • What we’re doing well
  • What we should be doing better
  • What new things we could be doing
  • Main reasons for being part of GIMA
  • How involved you are, how much you use GIMA services
  • Communications – are they right?

Remember it is hard to hit the target if you do not know what the target is! On a scale of 1 – 9 how well does GIMA meet your needs? (1 for not at all – 9 for pretty well)

 Please click here and let us know.  

News and Views

gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) GIMA statement on the launch of Garden Expo 2010
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) Glee - home of innovation

Glee

gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) From drawing board to distribution in three years - the Grab-O-Saurus

The Grab-O-Saurus

gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) The Annual General Meeting of GIMA was held on the 26th March and at that meeting a new Council was elected. Click here for details

Jane lawlor become GIMA President

gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes)What does 2009 hold? Read it here

Winners!

gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes)GIMA Member Tenax sponsors Britains Best Garden Retailer Awards

Garedn Retail Awards 2008

The turn out was good and as no surprise to many, GIMA members did well in the New Product category at the Garden Retail Awards. Read more here.

Plum Products

gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes)Top New MD for Plum Products
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes)GIMA Announces New Council Member
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) So what might be around the next corner …? Read the report of the latest GIMA business meeting here
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) Prices to rise by 10% or more next year …
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) You stand to lose 85% of active ingredients of garden chemicals if proposed legislation is approved by the European Parliament ...
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) Wyveale report recognises that sustainability needs good supply chain relations.
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) Solus acquires Joseph Bentley Garden Tool Business
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) Outdoor heating – the debate continues...
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) Retailing in 2015
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) GIMA Announces New Council Member
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) GIMA Members do well at Industry Awards
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:... Banks tighten up on lending
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gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) Reasons to be cheerful...
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) Be Sure of Your Future ...

gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) “Old” favourite joins young company!
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) GIMA AGM and Business Meeting
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) Pulling together for Better Gardens

gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes)GRO presentation to GIMA Business Meeting
GRO – All garden product suppliers appear content to sit tight waiting and watching to see if this will get off the ground..

GRO Presentation
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) How Green is your valley, garden or business?

gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) Off down the road again …
The GIMA Director General mulls the new buying organisation, GRO.