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The GIMA Awards 2010 have been awarded!

Click for the GIMA Awards here!

Awards awarded!

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Offers and Services

Four Oaks!

Click on the butterfly for much more than you expect!

Four Oaks Trade Show


Garden News' New Look

Garden News

Britain’s biggest weekly gardening newspaper has a great new look. It’s packed full of gardening tips, ideas and inspiration as well as all the latest news, new plants and products. Our regular product pages are a brilliant way to get your products known to a large audience of passionate gardeners. Garden News is THE newspaper for every gardener, bringing them everything they need to know in the garden each week.


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.


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.


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


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 New Product Digest
is back!

GIMA's New Product Digest for the 2011 season starts here, now.

New Product Digest


GLEE – the greatest show on earth – you have just got to be there. Click the logo

Glee 2010


Membership Frozen

GIMA Membership Rates 2010 freezes full membership rate for 2010, and reduces associate member rate. Both new full and associate members joining before the end of October will be able to have 15 months membership for the price of 12. For more details, click here for full membership and here for associate membership.


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.

Growretail

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

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Glee!
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Glee!
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The Budget

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Golf Day Opened!

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Kelkay Invests
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Garden Press Success
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gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) Maryanne Stokes wins Award
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Dig Deep
gimaleafsmall.gif (998 bytes) GIMA statement on the launch of Garden Expo 2010