This weeks GTN Bestsellers is written from Koln where the show season starts again in earnest.  Spoga+gafa kicks it all off today (Sunday 1^st September) followed by Autumn Fair, Four Oaks and then Glee.

We’ll be looking for new trends out a spoga+gafa and of course new products.  At Glee there will be well over 300 new products displayed in the New Product Showcase and many of them look to provide answers to the eco issues everyone is so eager to improve upon. 

Also at Glee we hope you’ll join us for some Floral Fun on Thursday as we turn Glee Floral in aid of Greenfingers.  We’re hoping as many exhibitors and visitors as possible come to Glee wearing something floral and that during the day we raise plenty of money for Greenfingers in their 20^th year. 

See you at the show!

The GTN Bestsellers highlights for last week are an increase in footfall week on week +9.0% and year on year increases for the week in Garden Product and Growing Media sales.  Plants also saw a week on week jump but were 13% down on the same week last year.

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 34

•           Garden Products Top 50 – up 25%

•           Growing Media Top 50 – up 8%

•           Wild Bird Care Top 50 – up 6%

•           Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – down 9%

•           All Plants index – down 13%

•           All Items index - down 5%