To be in with a chance of winning two top-quality padlocks, enter our competition in conjunction with Nothing But Padlocks.

The two padlocks, Abus 701B/45 – a brass, double-bolted padlock with a sealed lock body – and the smaller Abus 155/30, with combination for keyless entry, will be given away to one lucky reader.

Jonathan Low-Hang from Nothing But Padlocks tells Garden Trade Specialist about why every garden centre needs to use AND stock top-quality locks.

Enter our competition to be in with the chance of winning an Ashford bistro garden furniture set in duck egg blue from Wyevale Garden Centres. The set is worth £70 and includes a table and two chairs, which are ideal for when you want to enjoy your morning coffee out in the garden or catch up with a friend on a summer afternoon. Because the furniture comes in a beautiful duck egg blue, it will also do a great job of bringing an extra dash of colour and style to your garden.

Garden Trade Specialist has teamed up with Haskins Garden Centre to offer this Wooden Tabletop Football Game (£24.99) – perfect for bringing children together, getting them away from digital toys and back to basics! It’s also the ideal game to bring adults together, inspire a bit of fun and games and light-hearted competitive spirit.

Christmas is now an established and integral part of the garden centre offering, providing significant sales in the second half of the year. The popular garden centre group anticipates welcoming 1 million visitors to its four centres across a three month lead up to Christmas. Across all four centres, Christmas gifts, decorations and trees equate to 7.35% of the overall yearly sales (excluding the restaurant). 

Haskins is encouraging gardeners to make the most of National Tree Week with a new competition to win a tree for the garden, school or local community.

National Tree Week takes place from Saturday November 25 until Sunday December 3. First initiated in 1975, it is the UK’s largest tree celebration annually which launches the start of the winter tree planting season.

Haskins is celebrating this festival of trees by offering customers the chance to win their own Ornamental or Fruit Tree, up to the value of £50. The winner will be chosen the week before National Tree Week in order for the tree to be planted during the tree festival.

Mobile app development company Apps4U invites small businesses across the country to enter their free app development competition, with a prize worth nearly £2000.

Mobile apps are a major component in modern living. 85% of people say they prefer using apps over mobile websites, mainly because they streamline the user experience and make the business/service more accessible and easier to engage with. Given the popularity of apps, their benefits for a small business are almost immeasurable. Apps can help draw in new customers, inspire repeat business, establish eCommerce platforms and provide powerful marketing tools. However, as the average app development project costs thousands of pounds, most local gardeners and garden centres are priced out of the market, meaning they miss out on these vital, business-boosting advantages.

Win a Retail Starter Kit worth £170 with Soopa Pets, Simply answer the following question: How many products in total are in the Soopa Dog Treat Range?

Find the answer by visiting www.soopapets.com and enter by simply emailing your answer and name to sales@soopapets.com

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Create eye-catching signage at garden centres with rainbow chalk liquid pens

Rainbow Chalk Liquid Pens provide a clean, colourful and easy alternative to chalk sticks and permanent markers for creating eye-catching and professional looking retail displays that can easily be updated.

Liquid Chalk Pens are perfect for writing on non-porous surfaces including blackboards, glass, mirror and whiteboards, so you can design attractive PoS displays, special and seasonal offers - which customers will notice.

Information can be quickly and easily amended or removed, by simply wiping with a damp cloth or for more efficiency you can use the special Rainbow Cleaners.