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year. The company was founded by Ronald and Wilfred Mahood and has remained a family run business ever since. Historically Mahood’s was a specialist grower of field grown hedging plants and trees, supplied primarily to the local authority and agricultural sectors. Over the years the business has developed into the production of container- grown trees and shrubs, whilst maintaining the field production. In the late 1980’s the company purchased a container site enabling the company
Mahood centurions! E
stablished in 1910 Mahood Brothers Ltd is proud to be celebrating its centenary this
to grow on a much larger scale. It currently supplies councils, landscape contractors and architects all over the UK with all of these plant products. More recently Mahood’s has become a supplier to the garden centre market and offers a full range of quality shrubs, herbaceous perennials, hedging and trees. All plants are supplied with bespoke lock-in picture labels and pre-priced and bar-coded where required. Mahood offers a weekly nationwide delivery service and endeavours to deliver all orders placed on a Monday during the same working week. See Mahood at the Four Oaks Show, stand C79 & 80. For more information visit
www.mahoods.co.uk
Labelled as
your partner Advance Bunzl Ltd has supplied the horticultural market for almost 30 years and with its Dutch partner company, Smit Media, offers care cards, tags, handles and all types of adhesive labels. A complete service for plant labelling provides growers and retailers with what the brand proudlty claims is the widest range of options from a single source. Through the Smit partnership, which includes the ‘Visions image’ library, Advance Bunzl says it offers state of the art production and the highest quality of product for Plant Presentation in the sector. Its UK studio facilities have a direct link with Smit and ‘ Visions’ to also offer a comprehensive design service. Additional services include the Quick Colour Service, in-house digital printing to provide rapid response on short-run plant labels, tags and bed cards. Customers can order as few as 50 labels per variety with delivery in five days. Leaflets, brochures and catalogues are also available. An online label design and management system is available free of charge, enabling users to design their own labels, using the Visions picture library. See Advance Bunzl at Four Oaks on stand D92. For more information call Mike Sutton on 01622 208155 or email
sales@advancebunzl.com
Fresh ideas and designs!
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lanter World Ltd. is a new company with fresh ideas and designs for exterior plant containers. It is aiming at the more ‘up market’ displays for those who want to impress, but at an affordable price. Set up earlier this year, Planter World provides cost effective plastic planters and other landscape related products manufactured from
Hey Presto!
Young Plants held its annual open days recently and the new Presto Petunias caught the eye! MD Alex Newey is pictured with these colourful varieties in ‘Lilac Pink’ and White. Ideal for mass-market production the Presto Petunias are early to flower and compact in pot. With high density production and a free flowering profile they also provide a mounding/trailing habit for consumers. Young Plants says that in
recyclable polyethylene. All the products are design- led, producing new innovative shapes and colours exclusive to Planter World. The new Havana Range of planters is made in the UK from recyclable polyethylene with the black ones made from recycled material. They do not crack in frosty conditions. Launched at the Classiflora Open days in March, these products will make their Four Oaks debut on stands E252 with the Europlanters product range on E251.
For more information call 0161 449 7900 or visit
www.plantersworld.co.uk
comparison to Surfinia classics they are a much earlier flowering plant than comparable colours and faster in production. The sun shone on the first day of the open days when the trial grounds are open the grower and press alike. See this stunner and the rest of the impressive Young Plants emporium at Four Oaks on stands D53-54 & 79-80. For more information call 01789 459000 or visit
www.young-plants.co.uk
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