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Who
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Overview |
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The Georgia Green Industry Association (GGIA)
is a non-profit trade association, incorporated in the State of Georgia,
representing the interests of the state's nursery, garden center and
landscape industry. Membership is comprised of nursery stock growers,
landscape contractors and maintenance firms, garden centers, arborists and
allied suppliers. |
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The Georgia
Green Industry Association endeavors to:
- Foster and promote the sale and use of
nursery products and engage in any lawful activities which will enhance
the ethical and economic progress of the industry.
- Protect the planting public through the
advancement of fair and lawful trade practices, customs and uses.
- Improve nursery products and cultivate
techniques by supporting research in the field of horticulture and
encourage the publication of the results of such research.
- Cooperate with public agencies and
institutions of higher learning involved in the nursery and landscape
industry and enlist their cooperation and counsel for our members and the
public.
- Cooperate with governmental agencies in
molding policies on legislative and administrative matters in the interest
of the public and the industry.
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| The Georgia
Green Industry Association is headquartered in Epworth, GA. |
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The Association
staff is comprised of Sherry Loudermilk,
Executive Director and April Chapman,
Director of Communications.
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8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The office is closed weekends,
all major holidays and the day following Thanksgiving. |
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mission statement |
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| To lead the horticultural industry in marketing
quality products and services by promoting professionalism through
education, certification, and environmental stewardship, monitoring
legislative issues, and interacting with other industry allies. |
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