In This Issue
Westland win Sword of Excellence with SafeLawn
Batavia 4Grill and Heat Beads BBQ Fuel
Star Wars Maize Maze opens at Skylark Garden Centre
Spirits High at SOLEX
Alton, Bramblecrest, Chessington and Shackeltons set the gold standards in The Greatest Outdoor Leisure Sales Team Awards presented at Solex 2017
SOLEX celebrates 10th anniversary with birthday cake
GCA Wales & West winners receive awards
Kettler win Best Stand at SOLEX
Tepro wins Best New Product Award at SOLEX
Future Marketing welcomes new member at buyers meeting
See all the pictures from Build-up Day at SOLEX
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Ants light up garden product sales
Chilli plants sales heat up
Another week of gains for growing media
Plants up 17% on last week
Haskins promotes Andy Harriss to Senior Buyer
LOFAssured initiative launched at SOLEX
Commonwealth Games group visits SOLEX
New area sales manager joins Vitax
HTA Board finalises structure review
Outdoor cinema opens at Webbs
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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Spirits High at SOLEX


The focus was very much on summer outdoor living this week as buyers attended SOLEX with stock rooms emptying quickly after a great summer for furniture and BBQ’s.

 

GTN presented The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales Team Awards at the show with Alton, Chessington, Bramblecrest and Shackletons winning the Gold Awards. 

 

Meanwhile back at the garden centres plant sales revived but not by enough to get back above last years volumes for the same week.  Customers are still looking to add colour to their garden but gardening activity has slowed down with sales of garden products and growing media all dropping off considerably.


GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year.
  • Garden Products Top 50 – down 14%
  • Growing Media Top 50 – up 5%
  • Veg 2 Gro Products Top 50 – down 26%
  • All Plants index – down 4%
  • All Items index – down 4%
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