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HTA launches Sustainability Roadmap to guide UK horticulture towards leading edge of sustainable business practice
The Most Jumperful Time of the Year Fundraiser starts tomorrow!
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Henry Bell clinches deal with Future Marketing Group
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GTN November issue now on-line
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Garden centre customers find happiness in houseplants in October
Two-thirds more gardening this Autumn – Wow!
End of season pot bargains and houseplant care star
HTA reacts to new December tier arrangements
Gonks fly through tills as Christmas sales jump up
A Christmas feast for your garden birds
The best of last week's
A Perfect Storm Hits the Garden Market
Sales fall by 5.5% in Lockdown 2
“The Smart Show must go on…line!”
Five creative ways to enhance your takeaway service during lockdown
Profits up at Notcutts in year to February 2020
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
British Garden Centres open their 58th centre at Thatcham
Barton Grange Christmas 2020 - Exclusive GTN Xtra Photo Tour
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Gonks fly through tills as Christmas sales jump up

 

Christmas sales are back in the positive after three weeks of Lockdown shopping according to the Garden Centre Epos data supplied for GTN Bestsellers.

 

Despite Social Distancing restricting the number of people allowed in garden centres, sales volumes of the GTN Bestsellers Top 50 Christmas Products jumped by 48% on the previous week and were 43% ahead of the same week last year.

 

Could it be that the restrictions in numbers are allowing customers to shop more easily and are therefore buying more items per transaction? Or is it just that people are looking for extra cheer this year?

 

Highlights of the week were:

  • Battery Operated Gonk Glo-Kert’s in Grey or Red from Smart Garden products Three Kings range are the surprise new entry at the top of the GTN Bestsellers Christmas chart, even outselling all of the personalised decoration lines.
  • Grandma Wilds Embossed Christmas Tree Tin is another highly placed new entry, taking the biscuit at No 11.
  • As sales of Christmas trees start in earnest Kaemingk’s Christmas Tree Wicker Ring Large is the highest chart climber, up 24 places to No 17.

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