Following many conversations with garden centres while out and about post Glee and at the Cultivating Retail conference, the GTN team have realised there is a real need for more information about sustainability initiatives from existing suppliers and ideas that could lead to products from new suppliers to be stocked.

In answer to this, GTN is compiling a Sustainability Directory to be published in January 2020 that will provide a guide for garden centre buyers and staff to the sustainability initiatives of garden centre suppliers and their products.

Suppliers to garden centres will be able to take a FREE Sustainability Listing in the directory and there will also be opportunities for advertising and advertorial content to emphasise your sustainability activities.

To take advantage of this FREE Sustainability Listing companies should use this link or send an e-mail to alan.burdon@tgcmc.co.uk by Wednesday 8th January 2020 at 5:00pm

For information about advertising and advertorial opportunities please call Alan Burdon or Ben Greenwood on 01733 775700.

Deadline for submissions: Friday December 20^th 2019

A stunning last week’s trading in November, which was the ninth highest week for volume sales of the year, meant the month finished 11% up on last year and 7% higher than the previous November record set in 2017. 

Despite everything that is going on at the moment this just proves the popularity of garden centres as leisure shopping destinations.

Christmas of course played its part in that overall record with last week’s GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes reaching the highest weekly total in any of the last 10 years of Epos data analysis.

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year (week 48)

• Garden Products - up 23%
• Growing Media - up 23%
• Wild Bird Care - up 14%
• Christmas - up 6%
• All Plants Index - up 17%
• All Items Index - up 5%

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