The focus was very much on summer outdoor living this week as buyers attended SOLEX with stock rooms emptying quickly after a great summer for furniture and BBQ’s.
GTN presented The Greatest Outdoor Living Sales Team Awards at the show with Alton, Chessington, Bramblecrest and Shackletons winning the Gold Awards.
Meanwhile back at the garden centres plant sales revived but not by enough to get back above last years volumes for the same week. Customers are still looking to add colour to their garden but gardening activity has slowed down with sales of garden products and growing media all dropping off considerably.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year.- Garden Products Top 50 – down 14%
- Growing Media Top 50 – up 5%
- Veg 2 Gro Products Top 50 – down 26%
- All Plants index – down 4%
- All Items index – down 4%
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