July sales volumes best for years
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Sales volumes for July were the best for a number of years, according to the GTN Bestsellers All Products Index. Data for the last week of July sent sales totals up 8% on July 2015, making it the best garden centre summer for several years.
As already reported in GTN Bestsellers this year it is core growing activities that are driving much of the increase. Garden centres continue to report higher than usual plant sales – plants looking good at the right price continue to be lapped up by customers.
If the weather stays warm and dry during August then there’s every chance by the time we get to September and the start of autumn gardening and Christmas that sales volumes for the year to date will be up for 2015 as well as revenues which have already been buoyed by high levels of outdoor leisure sales.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
- Garden Products – down 14%
- Veg-2-Gro Products – up 14%
- Growing Media – up 3%
- All items index – up 10%
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