Home & Garden Showplace partners with ANLA

Home & Garden Showplace, the garden center division of True Value Company, and the American Nursery & Landscape Association (ANLA) announced a new partnership in December. Beginning in 2011, ANLA will offer H&GS retailers many of the benefits enjoyed by its members.

Benefits include full access to the ANLA’s online Knowledge Center. Also, H&GS retailers are granted reduced member pricing to the 2011 ANLA Management Clinic, a four-day event held in Louisville, Ky.

“We are proud to welcome Home & Garden Showplace members to our ANLA retail community,” said Bob Lyons, ANLA president and owner of Sunleaf Nursery LLP, based in Madison, Ohio. “Our industry is facing the most challenging economic, legislative and regulatory environment many of us have ever seen, and we applaud Home & Garden Showplace’s vision to help bring the industry together to protect our shared future.”

Home & Garden Showplace represents 220 retail locations in the U.S. All stores are locally owned, independent garden centers that make up the largest garden center cooperative in the country.