Learning Opportunity: The Financial Basics of Garden Retailing

“The Financial Basics of Garden Retailing” workshop series | The Garden Center Group

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.

This comprehensive virtual seven-session series includes six online sessions and one individual session to review participants’ worksheets and data. The workshop sessions will begin on Jan. 31, 2025, and end on Oct. 17, 2025. The series will cover more than 24 financial topics and key The Garden Center 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 this workshop series is open to The Garden Center Group clients as well as non-Group centers. Registration is per center and limited only by each center’s capacity to view the online sessions. Each session is via Zoom.

After working in garden centers for more than 20 years, Tim Quebedeaux of RetailKPI Consulting now manages The Garden Center 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, the Annual P&L Study, another industry exclusive, and the most comprehensive Annual Profit and Loss study of its kind, as well as provides financial management and analysis to The Garden Center Group Clients.

Danny Summers is Managing Director of The Garden Center Group and co-manages its programs and services. Danny will join Tim during each session to guide participants through the entire journey. Each person registered will receive invitations to sessions along with needed worksheets and handouts from Danny. He will also provide access to interact with Tim and peer centers as you work through the workshop series together.

For information about The Garden Center Group, The Financial Basics of Garden Retailing Workshop Series, The Annual P&L Study, the Weekly Department Review (WDR), The Fall Event 2025, or any other information, visit http://www.thegardencentergroup.com.