In This Issue
Scotts aim to take Chapelwood to market leadership in 3 years
Doncaster garden centre wins Best in Show at Chelsea - more GTN highlights from the world famous flower show
Wyevale Keston GC put on a Chelsea Display...and win a bottle of champagne
Smart Garden Products acquires Outside-In Designs
Dobbies brings an American gardening craze to the UK
Gardening media frenzy over Chelsea boosts sales...
Peter Burks takes up the reins at Blue Diamond's Fermoy's Garden Centre
Buyers Power List introduced at Glee 2015
PetQuip Business Village comes to Glee 2015
Homebase on the hunt to find Britain’s next generation of talent
Gardman's Moulton Mill tools help to build gold medal winning Chelsea garden
Turn the Summer Bank Holiday into a worthwhile business trip to Germany
Apologies - and watch out for The Greatest Awards ON TOUR 2015
Plant Buyer - Romsey
Plant Area Supervisor - Kent
Production Site Manager - Herefordshire
Key Account Manager - Herefordshire
£3m revamp plans for ‘Gateway to Harrogate’ garden centre
Petition in support of garden centre gains momentum
Comfy furniture and sizzling BBQ sales boost April’s figures
2015 BBQ season is sizzling for Napoleon Grills
Hanging basket activity boosts garden product sales
Herbs join in the Veg-2-Gro bonanza
Growing activity to peak this Bank Holiday?
Roses are HTA's Plant of the Month for June
Ben promoted to Product Development Coordinator at Wyevale Nurseries
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
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Catering tip of the week: Does your menu taste of summer?
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Gardening media frenzy over Chelsea boosts sales...



As Chelsea grabs the headlines and gardening gets incredible amounts of air time, the GTN Bestsellers All Products Index moves above the last two years for the first time in the past five weeks.

With the weather forecast looking good for the Whitsun Bank Holiday and through half-term these could be the weeks everyone is waiting for to get volume sales back into much higher year-on-year figures.

The last 11 weeks cumulative volume sales in the GTN Bestsellers Index are just about even with last year at minus 0.3%. The sales for the rest of May and June need to be up by about 15% to get to positive territory at the half year.

As well as all the Chelsea air time, did you hear Matthew Bent on BBC Radio 5 Live’s ‘Wake up to Money’ on Monday?  

You can listen via the BBC iplayer: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vc9kg#auto, Matthew’s interview is at 39 minutes 15 seconds into the programme.

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

  • Garden Products – down 4%
  • Veg-2-Gro Products – up 76%
  • Growing Media – down 4%
  • All items index – up 5%

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