In This Issue
Easter records broken
Shaping a New Future at Coolings, New Products, Easter GTN Bestsellers and more in GTN's March/April issue on-line here
Meadow View Stone – new Garston site provides additional growth for the market leading landscaping products supplier
Greenfingers opens new sensory garden at Tŷ Hafan Children’s Hospice
The Pot Place Garden Centre - An Ambulance for Ukraine
Europe comes to Glee 2022
Dobbies recruiting for roles at new store
Largest garden centre of Iceland
Easter plant sales soar
Shadow Defra Minister visits UK’s largest rose grower Whartons
Tong to support cancer charity with planting demos
MNP/Suntory shows many novelties during spring events
Dobbies announces Helping Your Community Grow shortlist
Get your copy of GTN Xtra
Grow your own set for biggest year ever
Deco-Pak expands team
Highest volumes for growing media since May 2020
Heuchera L. Frilly enters Plant of the Year at Chelsea
Feed me, feed me more
Easter boost for Wild Bird Care sales
The best of last week's
Plant food gets a Boost
Doors Open, at Dor’s Garden
Family announces sad passing of Longacres founder
Defenders range designed to appeal to all gardeners
Bradford garden centre invests in new warehousing
New Handy display introduced across Dobbies centres
Easter sees sales bounce back to above 2019 levels
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Easter records broken
GTN Bestsellers Epos data analysis

 

Easter trading in 2022 broke all records according to the garden centre Epos data analysed by GTN Bestsellers.

 

The Easter fortnight in 2022 was 3% higher than Easter 2021, 31% higher than the average for all Easters between 2011 and 2019 and even beat the previous record high recorded by GTN Bestsellers for volume sales in 2011.

 

That record wasn’t in sight after the first Easter week but last week saw the highest week’s volume sales ever recorded by GTN Bestsellers, even beating the weeks when centres re-opened in 2020 and that memorable week in 2018 when the season finally got going after a long cold and wet spring.

 

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week in 2021: week 16.

  • Garden Products Top 50 – up 9%
  • Growing Media Top 50 – up 37%
  • Veg 2 Gro Top 50 –up 49%
  • Wild Bird & Wildlife Care Top 50 – up 22%

GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes compared to the same week in 2021: week 16

  • All Plants with Barcode index – up 43%
  • All Items with Barcode index – up 32%

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