Conference football club Wrexham has a new pitch at its Racecourse Ground to match their ambitions of getting back into the Football League and one fit for international duty once more. Contractor Souters Sports was given the job of upgrading a playi
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Limagrain UK, part of Group Limagrain - the largest plant breeder and seed development company in Europe, has appointed Fusion Media (Europe) as its new PR partner for the amenity sector with immediate effect.
Fusion Media is an award-winning marketin
Crown Woods College in Eltham, South East London have become the latest sports facility to benefit from the specialist artificial surface cleaning from Replay Maintenance – one of the UK’s leading synthetic sports pitch maintenance providers.
The full
Award-winning marketing and corporate communications agency Fusion Media (Europe) Limited are pleased to announce the appointment of Brodie Tse and Reece Heard as social media executives with immediate effect.
Brodie and Reece won the two positions ov
Bunkers are a regular clubhouse talking point – often as a negative one – but leading supplier of golf course supplies Sherriff Amenity now offers something that will raise their profile favourably and be a useful course care aid - the Bunkerstamp.
It
A party of Sherriff Amenity customers, delegates and staff from the company and sponsors Everris recently attended the Golf Industry Show in Orlando which followed the company’s education programme at BTME in Harrogate.
The group for the trip was made
Premier League Football Club Chelsea FC has transformed the entrances to the first team training pitches at their Cobham training ground with the installation of baseguard - a new product and service by Complete Weed Control, the UK’s leading special
As part of its plan to significantly increase business and provide customers with the highest level of expertise and service, Souters Sports, a specialist sports ground contractor, has announced the appointment of three new members of staff.
Gareth Ro
Alaster Anderson Specialist Gardeners, a London-focused soft landscaping and garden maintenance company, has purchased a range of environmentally friendly battery-powered Pellenc products.
The purchase includes two grass strimmers, two hedge trimmers,
Once again, Pellenc is proving that it is technologically ahead of the field with the launch of the Lumenion – a mobile, self-powered LED floodlight, sold exclusively in the UK by Etesia.
Pellenc have developed a global environmental approach for many
Etesia UK is pleased to announce the appointment of a new Pellenc dealership - Morris’s Stores based in Rhuddlan North Wales, covering the entire North Wales area.
Morris’s Stores was first founded in 1934 and is a family run business. The company fir
The Emerson Country Club in Sejong City, South Korea has recently upgraded its turf maintenance machinery with the delivery of a SISIS Javelin Aer-Aid 1500 tractor mounted aerator by local SISIS dealer Arcwin Co, which has led to six further sales of
Sherriff Amenity, one of the leading turf care and sports equipment suppliers, is pleased to announce the launch of a new professional spreader – the Trojan DSi.
The Trojan range is renowned by grounds care professionals to be designed and built with
Alan Abel, a Complete Weed Control franchisee for over 30 years, gives his thoughts for 2014.
The whole year kicks off again with the annual pilgrimage to BTME and Harrogate. It’s so hard to believe 12 months have passed so quickly.
At least those mont
Leading sports ground contractor, Souters Sports, has continued its policy of investing in state of the art equipment with the purchase of two MAN TGX 26.440 lorries. The two Lorries have been bought for their reliability and efficiency.
Winner of sev
Leading natural and artificial sportsground contractors White Horse Contractors association with Barclays Premier League side Chelsea FC has seen renovation works undertaken at the club’s Cobham training ground.
Building on the relationship that the c
Complete Weed Control franchisees from across the country joined head office staff at the annual CWC Franchisee Conference, this year held in Amsterdam – with the theme ‘Building on Success’.
Managing Director Ian Graham opened proceedings stating tha
Norwich City FC Head Groundsman Gary Kemp has recently doubled his fleet of Dennis G860 cassette cylinder mowers for use on the stadium pitch at Carrow Road and also the nearby Colney Training Centre to four.
Barclays Premier League side Norwich City’
Souters Sports, one of the UK’s leading natural sportsturf contractors, has recently completed the natural habitat at Bluebell Park School in Knowsley, Cheshire with an ambitious planting scheme which saw the addition of over 4,000 trees and over 20,
Sherriff Amenity has confirmed an exclusive supply agreement with Greenaway Amenity to sell market and develop the company’s range of hand-held Controlled Droplet Application (CDA) sprayers and liquid products throughout the UK.
Sherriff Amenity and G
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The new Avant 855i and Avant 845 models have entered production.The biggest and strongest Avant loader series is now complete as two highly anticipated loader models have entered production. The Avant 855i is a single-speed version of the most…
"I thought I'd update this now as I settled on the Stihl AK range. It has saved me a hundred quid or so and the gear is fine for my garden. All cordless and I don't need a box full of batteries any more.
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I have been very fortunate this season, being inundated with work. I have my regular customers who I mainly mow their grass for. Throughout the season, I have had calls with more work, which I have tried to accomodate. I am now in a situation where…
Following the launch of Maxtima fungicide, which provides turf-safe broad-spectrum disease control of microdochium patch and dollar spot, Nigel Green, Course Manager at Aberdovey Golf Club set within the Snowdonia National Park, has reported…
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Hedge Cutting November?
I have been very fortunate this season, being inundated with work. I have my regular customers who I mainly mow their grass for. Throughout the season, I have had calls with more work, which I have tried to accomodate. I am now in a situation where…
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Glyphosate recommendations
I am planning to apply some glyphostate into some gardens I work in. I am new to gardening and so don't have a legacy relationship with this herbicide, and am fairly new to the taboo nature of using it.Given the issues surrounding it, and what…
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Changing from petrol KM to battery
My petrol KM engine is 5 or so years old now, plus we have a weekly all day job that pays well, but the client would prefer us to use as much battery kit as possible going forward.We already have a smaller battery stihl mower for the easier stuff,…
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Cordless kit for own use
Well I have finally retired. After doing this on and off for most of my life, and enjoying most of it (!) I have sold on the equipment for a modest sum to someone I introduced to my customers and all is agreeable. Now I am left with my own garden…
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