In This Issue
Rosebourne announces official opening date
September sales in garden centres above average
Taylors Bulbs director joins HTA board as VP elect
G Plants bring back heritage Bees Seeds brand
Garden centre marketeers to battle for Worrall Cup
Heat Beads turns up the heat on the UK market
Kettler to distribute Heston Blumenthal BBQ range
Squire's set to wow children with interactive grottos
Garden King offers cash reward offered to find Santa
From stately homes to cosy cottages, NOMA leads the way with Christmas lighting
People, Brand, Knowledge and Partnerships - 4 equations for a virtuous circle
Porcelain perfection: Award winning wood effect paving
Retailers join Deco-Pak for first charity golf day
Furniture and barbecue sales sizzle in summer
£2,500 bursary is prize for Young Horticulturist of the Year
David Colegrave Foundation's new look is an eye-catcher
'Britain's best lawn' found in a Bolton garden
Why do profitable businesses lose the art of start?
Christmas at Poplars opened by Royal Ambassador
Garden Centre General Manager
Horticultural Quality Controller
Nursery Growing Supervisor
Horticultural Plant Centre Manager (Northamptonshire)
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Is Christmas a step too far for garden product sales?
Being brave, fresh thinking, embracing diversity and knowing what makes a business stand out from the crowd
Scotts Growables spoil Taylors clean sweep
Keep on growing
Will "wish-listing" have a bigger impact than "green aspirations" on the garden centre landscape for 2017?
Plant sales drop
Bord na Mona adds premium feed and compost to Growise range
Green is now the colour for Wilkinson Sword carbon steel tools
Identify opportunities and threats in the market
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
GTN's Greatest Awards 2016
All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Winter warmers from coffee roaster Matthew Algie
Situations Vacant
Garden Centre General Manager
Salary: Excellent
 
Read more»
Horticultural Quality Controller
Salary: £20,000 - £22,000
 
Read more»
Nursery Growing Supervisor
Salary: £20,000 - £25,000
 
Read more»
Horticultural Plant Centre Manager (Northamptonshire)
Salary: £16,500
 
Read more»
Send us your news and great ideas
Contact us with your news. 

Email neil.pope@tgcmc.co.uk, or trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk or call the GTN News team on 01733 775700
September sales in garden centres above average


September sales volumes in garden centres for 2016 were 4% above the average for the previous five years but only 0.5% up on 2015 levels despite the higher than normal temperatures and hours of sunshine.

In the GTN Bestsellers Top 50 charts, only Growing Media outperformed last year, up by 30% - whereas Garden Products were down by 1% and Veg-2-Gro plants and seeds down by 13%.

Notably the last week in the month saw a big swing in Christmas product sales as displays are completed and opened for business but this coincided with a 28% drop in garden product sales compared with the same week last year. That may be the effect of garden product sales areas being shrunk to accommodate Christmas earlier
than normal.



Are you making sure you still have great displays of your bestselling Autumn gardening products in good traffic areas? The high levels of growing media sales indicate people are still actively gardening!

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
  • Garden Products - down 28%
  • Veg-2-Gro - down 20%
  • Growing Media - up 17%
  • All Items Index - up 3%
To subscribe to GTN Bestsellers email karen.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk


Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg
Email Software by Newsweaver