Creating a sustainable future for the garden manufacture is the key motif behind this year ’s Cultivating Retail effect which takes place on Tuesday 5 February 2025 at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham . This year ’s group discussion and dinner will be host by journalist and spreader Daisy McAndrew with Eddie ‘ the Eagle ’ Edwards providing the after - dinner party amusement .
The result , buy at by Evergreen Garden Care and jointly hosted by the Horticultural Trades Association ( HTA ) and Garden Industry Manufacturers Association ( GIMA ) , make for together retailer , suppliers and growers to render a mix of strategic and inspirational cognitive content . The programme will include the up-to-the-minute consumer attitudes and thoughts on what sustainability means for the garden manufacture including key topics such as biosecurity , growing media , plastics , labour / skill , body of water and pesticides .
“ This twelvemonth ’s tame Retail conference focuses on the sustainability of the industriousness in the widest sentiency . By bringing together the supply chain this issue give us a fantastic chance to depend at what actions we need to be taking now to see to it that we have a robust , viable and relevant industry fit for the time to come . You really ca n’t afford to miss this one ! ”
Dr. David Bek , a reviewer in Sustainable Economics from Coventry University , will focus on what sustainability means for the garden industry . Dr. Bek has extensive experience in tackle research into sustainability within horticultural supplying chemical chain , peculiarly cut flowers . He is especially interested in produce an evidence base to demonstrate how origination within sustainability practice can chair to improvements in business ’ resilience , productivity and gainfulness .
Guy Topping , Managing Director of the Barton Grange Group will be tell the history of their Flower Bowl Entertainment Centre . everlasting with its undulating design and pot cap Guy will spill through the growing from the birth of this new unpaid construct to the challenges of delivery and lessons learnt from a sustainability position .
The networking opportunities continue into the evening with the clientele dinner . This year the after - dinner speaker has been corroborate as Eddie ' The Eagle ' Edwards . With little science for his sport , Olympic skier Eddie ' the Eagle ' Edwards gain ground the hearts and minds of the world with his larger-than-life failure , and he remains one of the best loved athletes today ; in fact , his life has been limn in the biographic film Eddie the Eagle ( 2016 ) , and he has also seem as the coach on Channel 4 program ' The Jump ' .
The civilise Retail Steering Group , responsible for shape the event , lie of the following industry representatives : Mark Butler ( Vitax ) , Boyd Douglas - Davies ( Hillview Group ) , Neil Grant ( Ferndale Garden Centre ) , Caroline Owen ( Scotsdales Garden Centre ) , Richard Pyrah ( Ames ) sustain by HTA ’s Director of Membership Martin Simmons , GIMA Director Vicky Nuttall and the HTA events team .
Cultivating Retail takes place at the East Midlands Conference Centre set within the beautifully landscaped parkland of Nottingham University ’s campus . This role make locale , complete with auditorium , is adjacent to the Orchard Hotel . build in 2012 this eco - well-disposed hotel has been awarded a BREEAM rating of excellent and using the late technology to reduce carbon paper emission benefits from sight of daylight .
calculate out for further tidings on a keynote speaker in due form . For further information and to book your position please visitwww.hta.org.uk/cultivatingretailor email[email protected ] .
