Does sexism exist within the landscape industry? 
Is a calendar featuring women in lingerie and Etesia mowers a poor reflection on the landscaping industry?

Being a sub-contractor 
When a garden designer asked one landscaper to work on a project, but wanted him to wear the designer's uniform he stopped and questioned the request.

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SALTEX 2015

If your work involves managing a landscaped or urban space then SALTEX 2015 is for you. Held at the NEC Birmingham on the 4 and 5 November, you will be able to learn from the industry's leading opinion formers and see new products and services from all of the leading suppliers. You can also take part in the free seminar programme. Visitor registration to SALTEX 2015 is FREE. To confirm your attendance visitwww.iogsaltex.com

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Gardener – team leader: Warwickshire

Sales and marketing assistant: East Goscote, Leicester

Landscape supervisor: East Goscote, Leicester

Experienced landscaper/landscape foreman: Oxfordshire

Golf course landscaper/installer (synthetics): UK

Landscaper/team leader: Worcester

Experienced landscaper: Risborough

Landscape operatives and supervisors: London

Landscape supervisor: Uxbridge, Denham

Landscaper required: Farnham

Senior grounds maintenance operatives, yard manager and foremen: Glasgow

Landscaper: Wellingborough, Northamptonshire

Trainee landscaper Maidenhead

Senior gardener required: Weybridge

Gardener required: Crowthorne

In the Business Objectives Group

Ditching the larger gardens (maintenance) 
One member is thinking long and hard about replacing the larger gardens he works on with smaller ones.

Attrition/churn rate for domestic maintenance customers 
How to look at your customer base and price charges to see if you are operating effectively to ensure future success of your business.

PRO Members - 50% discount job posting on the Landscape Engine 
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More from the forum and blogs

Insurers - Don't you just love em 
When one member went to check his insurance quote, he got a very unwelcome surprise when he compared prices.

Rover lawnmower 835m 103 
Do you have experience of using these 18" mowers for wet collection and mulching?

Moving sleepers 
With a large number of new railway sleepers to move fr part of a garden build one member wonders what is the best way to get them on to the site?

Business advice 
Do you have a book on business running and set-up that you'd recommend?

Jailed: 'Aggressive' traveller gardener Benjamin Brown who scammed elderly victims out of thousands of pounds for sham work 
A traveller gardener was jailed for three and a half years for scamming elderly and vulnerable victims, some of them in their nineties, out of thousands of pounds by offering sham services.

News headlines

Tesco calls on people across the UK to nominate projects to benefit from plastic bag charge 
The money raised from the government’s 5p bag charge in England will be used by Tesco to pay for a large number of local environmental improvement projects in communities the UK.

Press releases

Tobermore permeable paving specified for Scotland’s £842m Queen Elizabeth University Hospital 
Glasgow's newest and largest hospital has been named the ‘Queen Elizabeth University Hospital’ after Her Majesty the Queen officially opened the record-breaking facility in July 2015.

We are celebrating 25 years in the trade 
2015 marks twenty five years of trading for Michael Bryant and Country Supplies in the Landscaping Supply industry.

Members' benefits