In This Issue
New Blue Diamond centre takes £250k ex vat in first 7 days
We SUPPLY what you DEMAND
Owner sought for Home & Garden Group
Will April and May make up for a mad March?
Bulldog Premier Range – skillfully crafted tools with the strength you can trust
Peter Rabbit on TV, in cinemas...and in garden centres!
Gardening glove from Towa makes RHS Product of The Year 2018 finals
Christmas department at Haskins Garden Centres now open due to high demand
Seduce your customers with the Allure of Elho
New 'age-reduction'pet food from Pooch & Mutt
Ivyline spreads happiness with Greenfingers launch
Will Nicholas Marshall be pitching for Homebase again?
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Gardman up to 1,000 SKU's for distribution next week
Planting products lead the way
Tumbling Tom sales spring back into life
Wild Bird Care sales recover
Seeds of recovery for growing media sales
Plants recover...but only slowly
FlowerTrials gathers 60 breeders in June
UK companies at National Hardware Show in Las Vegas
Renewable energy by-product set to enrich gardens
The best of last week's
Home & Garden Group of nine garden centres goes into administration
'Redfields Plus' wows customers in Nottingham
Gardman reactivates King's Lynn site and re-employs ex-staff in the aftermath of Daventry fire
Two more Bunnings Warehouse stores open despite ongoing fears that owners Wesfarmers will quit UK
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
Lesley Waters brings pop-up cookery demo to Poundbury
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Will April and May make up for a mad March?

 

With only one week left, this month is lookinig set to be the worst March for garden centre trading for eight years.

 

With Easter Sunday closing falling right at the end of the month it seems unlikely any lost ground will be made up even if the forecasted snow does not arrive.


That means it’s all about April and May now to turn things around. The last time we had a bad March, in 2013, April and May performed well with gardening happening and sales catching up. 


It may be time to dust off all those spring promotional ideas we’ve not had to use in the past few years when the weather helped draw customers into centres. Good idea, or wishfull thinking? Let us know: trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk

 

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year (week 12)

  • Garden Products - down 25%
  • Growing Media - down 27%
  • Veg-2-Gro - down 48%
  • Wild Bird Care - down 18%
  • All Plants Index - down 27%
  • All Items Index - down 24%

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