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Two days down, with one to go - and what a show it has already been!
Whitefurze showcase eco-friendly garden range
Glee Opening Times
Forest Garden relocates to ‘heart of the industry’
La Hacienda launches new giftware range at Glee
Grub’s - For All Outdoor Occasions
The Irresistible Spring Event at Glee
Suttons launches new Wildlife Sanctuary Seed Collection
Taylors gift lines put on the style
National Structures to show timber canopy
Jeyes Fight Dirty
HTA confirm Carol Paris as full-time chief executive
Countryfile's Adam Henson launches conservation seeds range with DLF
Chocs Away - Bon Bons are on the up
Westland Introduce Easy Wild Flowers
Happy Birthday Pam!
Posh Beds for Pooches win Glee Award
If you’re at Glee finding your new bestsellers for next year…
Floramedia are Buzzing about 3D Point of Sale
All the latest industry news in GTN Xtra
Neil Grant snaffles bubbly from CDG on Day 2 of Glee
Glee Catalogue Correction: Crown Garden Products
Glee Catalogue Correction
Get out of your comfort zone, urges John Stanley
Outlook sunny at Smart Solar says Paris Natar
Burgon & Ball RHS gifts are surefire winners
Vitax revitalise existing ranges
We're here to stay say Neudorff
HTA back Town & Country promo to help Greenfingers
Wilkinson Sword expands its cutting range making it even sharper
Bosmere Storm breaks over Glee
34 years of Glee and a winner at last!
It's Glee at Gardeners Kitchen
All the industry news, as it happens
Garden & Leisure Sold to TGCG
 
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Get out of your comfort zone, urges John Stanley



Business consultant John Stanley urged retailers at Glee today to get out of their comfort zone to embrace change.

In his seminar, titled ‘Business as Usual? There’s nothing usual about it’ in The Knowledge Hub (Hall 4), he said the next five years would see some “exciting stuff”. The accelerating pace of new technology and innovation would mean businesses would have to make new choices. “Don’t let what happened in the past stop your business developing in next few years,” he said. “We have to challenge existing practices in our changing world even if often we don’t know the rules of the game.”

He said every business in the world was at a crossroads – “but please don’t stand there too long. You have to make some decisions.”

He cited Amazon Fresh  – which delivers  fresh plants and flowers to consumers within 24 hours in the US – as an example of change that was unthinkable a few years ago. “And we have online businesses opening High Street stores to promote their online trade.”

Garden Tourism was another “sexy” development. Stanley said  he knew of a garden centre plant manager who took customers on a tour of gardens of Italy. “Are you engaging in things like this,” he asked his audience, “or are you still just trying to sell stuff?.  You have to think more about the end product and and how you are engaging your consumers with it.”

He predicted that ‘Weekday convenience versus weekend experience’ would be a key theme. The need for convenience would mean that within a few years, 30% of garden products would be purchased online. but consumers would still want to visit garden centres for a week-end experience.

Stanley warned against the insanity of “doing the same thing and expecting a different result”. 

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