In This Issue
Blue Diamond reports record first half profits of £7.6m
Delivering high sales all year round
Good start to sales in October
Winter colour fills the gaps for plants sales
Nursery spearheads broadband rollout to remote areas
RHS and Scholastic UK announce major new partnership
Evergreen Garden Care launches new UK website
Squire's donates 300 silver birches to local communities
Get down to earth...with Gardening Is Good For You
Perrywood celebrates first birthday in Sudbury
Tong to host half term charity family planting event
Spooky Half Term at Squire’s Garden Centres
Honda launches new range of cordless products plus smaller robotic mower
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Christmas knocks garden decoration sales
Add colour – get growing
Good omen for Christmas product sales
Swapping planting for painting! Alan Titchmarsh gets his green fingers into Heart Research UK's anonymous heART project
Calathea: November Houseplant of the Month
The best of last week's
Woodlodge win Choice Marketing Sundries Supplier of the Year Award - UPDATED - More photos added
Wyevale Chairman backs a strong future for independent garden centres
Neudorff signs exclusive distribution agreement with DLF Seeds
Glee’s owners rebrand as Hyve
Garden Centre Photo Tours
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Good start to sales in October

 

A 22% increase in sales at the start of October compared to the last week of September is just what the doctor ordered as the Christmas season gets fully underway.  If this week's momentum continues through to December 25th, no snow until January please, then we could be ending the year up on sales volumes by 3%.

 

Encouragingly plants and growing media sales also saw good increases so it’s not just Christmas that people are coming into centres for.  The opportunity is as ever to make the most of the footfall increases and make the most by selling gardening, gift and catering while they are there to enhance the customer experience.

 

Of course, you’ll all be using the GTN Bestsellers charts to make sure the most wanted items are in the most prominent hotspots!  Send us your photos of Bestsellers hotspots that make the most of your increased Christmas footfall: trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk.

 

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 40:

  • Garden Products Top 50 – down 1%
  • Growing Media Top 50 – down 34%
  • Wild Bird Care Top 50 – static 0%
  • Christmas Top 50 – up 5%
  • All Plants index – up 10%
  • All Items index - up 2%

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