In This Issue
'Love the Plot' goes live at Ally Pally with great results
New Percy Thrower's Wyevale honours UK's first celebrity gardener
Cold weather takes shine off Mother's Day sales
GCA announces new area chairmen with one still to fill
Lighting shines as gardeners prepare to get active...
PM's chef at Chequers makes Easter Egg for Garden Re-Leaf Day
Bucktons pigeon range flies out at PATS
App puts Kelkay customer service at stockists' fingertips
Wyevale is unique glue's first garden centre listing
La Hacienda’s new showroom kick starts thriving year
There's still time to run your Greenfingers Garden Re‐Leaf Quiz
Wyevale Garden Centres faced with petition over Raglan
Landscape Director - Yorkshire and the Humber
Retail Operations Manager - East Sussex
Nursery Supervisor - West Midlands
Garden Centre Manager - East Sussex
Motorists parking without permission at garden centre blocked in by compost bags
Compost and top soil sales given a boost
Yankee Candles worth hundreds of pounds stolen from Rosebank
Young tomato plants dominate veg sales
Planting Magic garden centre tour for Charlie
Gardening Which? compost tests throw up another crop of surprises
Wickes list Dansand No Weed patio joint filler
Mr Fothergill appoint new salesman for A1 corridor
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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Cold weather takes shine off Mother's Day sales
...Use Garden Re-Leaf Day next Friday to kick-start the season
 

After a disappointingly cold Mother’s Day, Garden Re-Leaf Day is the next great opportunity to get sales going this season.

GTN Bestsellers data shows that while garden centre transactions increased week on week, the cold weather certainly took any potential shine off Mother’s Day with sales down 12% on the same week last year and gardening sales – such as composts and veg plants – down by up to 40% as gardeners stayed in the warm and didn’t venture outside.

That means we need to hang our hats on the next few weeks leading up to Easter and Garden Re-Leaf Day on March 27th is the next great opportunity to make some noise and give your customers an extra reason to come to your centre.

The Briers Greenfingers Gloves and the #Glovie world record attempt is one of the easiest ways to get an extra crowd into your centre at 11:00am next Friday so you should start promoting that now.  

The Briers Greenfingers Gloves are already rasing plenty of money for Garden Re-Leaf Day – they are this week’s highest new entry in the GTN Garden Products chart at number 13!

To find out more about Garden Re-Leaf Day and how you can join in, call the Greenfingers team on 01494 674749 or visit www.greenfingerscharity.org.uk

If you would like supplies of the Briers Greenfingers Glovies which raise money for Greenfingers with every sale you should contact sales@briersltd.co.uk or call 01963 269077.

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...

  • Garden Products – down 16%
  • Veg-2-Gro Products – down 43%
  • Growing Media – down 32%
  • All items index – down 12%
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