The Garden Center Group hosting 'The Financial Basics of Garden Retailing Workshop Series'

The Garden Center Group has announced details of The Financial Basics of Garden Retailing Workshop Series for 2025.

Now in its 10th season, The Garden Center Group and RetailKPI Consulting offer this exclusive virtual workshop series designed for garden center owners and managers to develop the skills needed to maximize profitability.

The series includes six online Zoom sessions, plus one individual session to review participants’ worksheets and data. The workshop sessions begin Jan. 31, 2025, and end Oct. 17, 2025, all on Fridays starting at 11 a.m.

The workshop includes:

• Session 1: Three two-hour sessions (Jan. 31, Feb. 7, Feb. 14)
• Session 2: One one-hour session, with 15 minutes for Q&A (March 14)
• Session 3: One one-hour session, with 15 minutes for Q&A (July 11)
• Session 4: One one-hour session, with 15 minutes for Q&A (Aug. 15)
• Session 5: One one-hour session, with 15 minutes for Q&A (Sept. 12)
• Session 6: One one-hour closing/recap session (Oct. 17)

• Individual session: One-hour, one-on-one session (date and time to be scheduled upon completion of Session 6)

The series will cover more than two dozen financial topics and key group benchmarking and ratios. At the conclusion of this series, participants will have a working knowledge of their three most consequential retail statements.

Participation in the workshop is open to both group clients and non-group garden centers. Registration is per center and limited only by each center’s capacity to view the online sessions.

Leading the series are Tim Quebedeaux from RetailKPI Consulting and Danny Summers, managing director of The Garden Center Group.

After working in garden centers for more than 20 years, Quebedeaux now manages the group's financial programs, including the Weekly Department Review Report (WDR Report), which tracks the weekly sales and transaction data of participating group centers in 25 categories, and the Annual P&L Study. He also provides financial management and analysis to group clients.

Summers will manage session invitations, worksheets, handouts and communication coordination among the participating garden centers.

Registration is $5,495 per company for non-group garden centers and $4,995 for group clients. There's also a "refresher" option available for previous workshop attendees for $2,295, which includes Sessions 1-6 without the one-on-one session.

A split payment option is available, paying 50% now and paying the rest of the balance by June 1, 2025. Payments will not be processed until after Jan. 1, 2025.

The registration deadline is Jan. 30, 2025. Click here to register. For a full course breakdown, click here.

For more information, visit thegardencentergroup.com.