In This Issue
James Wong and Suttons celebrate being Top of the Charts
Neil Grant and Andy MacIndoe are Radio and TV stars of the week - and Carol Paris on Wake up to Money BBC Radio 5 Live
Catering props up footfall - but only keen gardeners are buying
Footfall up at GCA centres – but queues were for cuppas…
There's still time, HTA reassure gardeners
Thank goodness for the café...
Keenies, promotions and the power of TV win the day
The vicar who didn't know about Easter Sunday...
Commons outing marks Coolings’ centenary
Get ready for the growing media surge
Sixth coldest March wreaks havoc in Ulster
Bring back the sledges...
Sun shines and the Weber Experience gets selling
Happy Easter...thanks to crafts day and market
Now it's Cowells Garden Centre Limited
Notcutts get go-ahead for Tunbridge expansion
Haddonstone bird table sales soar
New marketing role at Forest
Year on year sales down says HTA retail monitor
Bents near perfection for recycling
GTN Bestsellers - garden centre sales data every week
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
 

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James Wong and Suttons celebrate being Top of the Charts


The new season’s grafted veg plants from Suttons once again dominated the GTN Bestsellers Veg 2 Gro chart as soon as they were delivered...
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Neil Grant and Andy MacIndoe are Radio and TV stars of the week - and Carol Paris on Wake up to Money BBC Radio 5 Live


The unprecedented levels of national TV and radio coverage of garden centres over the Easter period continued last week...
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Catering props up footfall - but only keen gardeners are buying
 
Catering ensured decent footfall at many garden centres over Easter - but few customers were buying  gardening products...
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Footfall up at GCA centres – but queues were for cuppas…
Footfall across GCA centres increased over the Easter weekend - but few were buying gardening products...
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There's still time, HTA reassure gardeners
The HTA have stepped into the breach with an optimistic message for gardeners...
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Thank goodness for the café...

Merryhatton Garden Centre in East Lothian was blanketed in snow for the Easter weekend, but the cafe saved the day...
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Keenies, promotions and the power of TV win the day




While more garden products stayed on the shelves during the first Easter week of 2013 than moved off of them, the GTN Bestsellers Garden Products chart reveals that good strong promotions and TV advertising still had some effect to help increase sales...
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The vicar who didn't know about Easter Sunday...
The law that forces most garden centres to close on Easter Sunday even confused a Worcestershire vicar...
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Commons outing marks Coolings’ centenary
Kent garden centre Coolings marked their centenary with a reception and dinner hosted at the House of Commons by their local MP...
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Get ready for the growing media surge
 
Growing media has been the hardest-hit category during the freeze-up – but be prepared for the upturn...
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Sixth coldest March wreaks havoc in Ulster
Garden centres in Northern Ireland may be facing spring trading decreases of up to 20 per cent...
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Bring back the sledges...
Raglan Garden Centre MD Martin Davies, said the writing was on the wall for Easter before they even began trading....
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