In This Issue
Exeter garden centre stays open but cannot sell plants - Cherry Lane close all centres
Horticultural Sector Worth £1.4 Billion Could Be Wiped Out By Coronavirus Shut Down In Just Weeks
Calling all businesses in garden retailing to sign HTA/RHS/NFU petition
Orangutan Books specialise in extremely high-quality bespoke gift books for your Christmas event
For sale - A long Established Garden Centre Business
Stay safe and well
40th Annual GIMA Awards Cancelled
National Plant Show Cancelled
Perennial prepares for increase in demand as Coronavirus (COVID-19) hits UK horticulture workers and businesses
How the humble houseplant became the garden industry’s fastest growth category
Glee at home
GTN Bestsellers Garden Re-Leaf Subscription Offer
WIldlife world
The HTA announces a subscription payment holiday for all members
Keukenhof will not open in 2020
How Primeur’s charity partnerships are making a difference
Huge surge in seed sales
Evergreen Garden Care, helping hands to combat coronavirus
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Record week for Growing Media sales
Growing peaks before the fall
Plant sales almost double before lockdown
Wild Bird Care benefits from pre-lockdown boom
Dig for Victory sends Veg sales soaring
Christmas Grotto Gift Books
The best of last week's
Garden Centres close their doors "We want to be part of stopping the spread of Coronavirus"
Dobbies remain open and social media gets heated
Pop up Veg shops - Garden Centres help ease pressure on buying fresh food
Dobbies close their centres this morning
David Domoney gives garden centre delivery services a lift on national radio
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to GTN Bestsellers
Casual Dining & Commercial Kitchen cancelled until 2021
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Email neil.pope@tgcmc.co.uk, or trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk or call the GTN News team on 01733 775700


Stay safe and well

On Monday 23rd March, garden centres across the country took decisions to be part of the solution for the COVID-19 Emergency and closed their doors.  That means this is the last week we can produce the GTN Bestsellers Newsletter and Top 50 Charts for a while.

 

We’d like to say well done to all the owners and managers who made the decisions to close so quickly.  We know many of you were determined to keep the doors open but the risks of being party to any increased spread of the virus became really evident last weekend and the GTN Bestsellers EPoS analysis bears that out.  Total sales last week were close to Easter or May Bank Holiday levels and the highest level for the third week of March since 2011.

 

We’ve also taken decisions not to ask printers to work on our behalf, hence this newsletter being printed in the office on this occasion.  We are also not publishing the April issue of Garden Trade News as that would be sent to thousands of garden centres where nobody is at work.  GTN Xtra will continue to be published on-line during the crisis and if you have any news you’d like to get out there please contact trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk

 

There are many challenges ahead of us all regarding business continuity and business recovery.  If you’d like to share your thoughts on this challenges and ideas for business recovery please let me know and we can share them vis GTN Xtra.

 

Also, while we’re are not able to create charts for the next few weeks if there are any ideas you have for longer term analysis from the GTN Bestsellers database then please do ask.

 

Stay safe and well.

 

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

•           Garden Products Top 50 – up 39%

•           Growing Media Top 50 – up 137%

•           Wild Bird Care Top 50 – up 32%

•           Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – up 119%

 

GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 12

•           All Plants index – up 20%

•           All Items index – up 28%

 

Trevor Pfeiffer  trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk 

 

07973 504214  Potting Shed Press Ltd.

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