In This Issue
Bents, Fron Goch and Poppies Oban strike gold in GTN's Greatest Team of the Year Awards
Smart and Westland are voted Greatest Award winners
Christmas gets October trade off to a flying start
Premier announces sad loss of Halloween General Manager, Sean Looney
Apta plans to invest £3.5m to grow its business in Ashford
HTA Garden Futures challenges the industry to capitalise on opportunity by embracing change
Clematis champion Raymond Evison awarded Pearson Medal
SBM Life Science recruiting new talent
The future for garden machinery is cordless…
Santa's spectacular arrival at Squire's Garden Centres
In with the new for Grange Fencing
Plant nursery helps local charity after break in
Ben's Guinness Record bean is longest amid sabotage claim at Mr Fothergill's
Spook-tacular Halloween events at Wyevale Garden Centres
Area Sales Managers
Brand Manager
Sales representative, South East
Nursery Grower Technical Manager
Garden Centre General Manager
Garden Sundries Retail Manager (Northamptonshire)
Horticultural Quality Controller
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Garden Products down year on year despite high plant sales
Christmas product sales off to a flier
Bark and top soil sell in big numbers
Autumn colour drives plant sales up
Impressive roll-call of speakers lined up for GrowQuip
Thompson & Morgan appoints new National Sales Manager
Perennial CEO Richard Capewell to retire in Spring 2017
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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GTN's Greatest Awards 2016
All the latest news from the world of garden centre catering
HTA study tour to Matthew Algie Roastery & Showroom
Cotswold Fayre expands its Chilled Operation
Situations Vacant
Area Sales Managers
Salary: Very attractive salary, bonus, company car and benefits
 
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Nursery Grower Technical Manager
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Garden Centre General Manager
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Garden Sundries Retail Manager (Northamptonshire)
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Christmas gets October trade off to a flying start


Sunny but colder weather combined with the extra attraction of fully opened Christmas displays led to a big leap in total sales volumes last week and got October off to a flying start, up 4% on last year.

Bulb sales performed well as the change in the weather prompted more gardeners to get on with their bulb buying and planting. Tulip Red Riding Hood topped our overall Top 20 chart (below) while 10 litre packs of Bulb Fibre featured at No 10 overall.

How will you maximise on continued bulb sales through October on the back of Christmas footfall? We’d love to see examples of how you make the most of bulb sales during the change over to Christmas.  E-mail your stories and images to trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
  • Garden Products - down 21%
  • Veg-2-Gro - down 11%
  • Growing Media - up 8%
  • Christmas Products - up 90%
  • All Items Index - up 4%
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