In This Issue
The Peat Issue - Moving to a Peat Free future. Read GTN's May/June 2021 issue on-line now
UK-first for Dobbies as garden centre chain launches own brand peat-free compost with added John Innes
Perrywood Sudbury granted planning permission to build £8-10m garden centre
New alliance for Franchi and Mr Fothergill’s Seeds
GIMA Charity Golf Day welcomes the industry back with a day of sunshine and friendly competition
GIMA Golf Day Photo Exclusive
30% growth in first week of June bucks trends of past years
HRH The Prince of Wales visits Bloomin Amazing
Plants are the stars of Summer 2021
Squire's: An 85-year love affair with gardening
New garden wellies set to ignite year-round sales
BBC Gardeners’ World’s Spring Fair is a sell-out
Online Marketplace kickstarts digital wholesale trading with over 4,500 products
Gardeners offered chance to make solar-powered water feature or pond fountain without electricity
Horticulture industry backs moves to reform packaging producer responsibility system
Dorset LEP invest in Stewarts Agritech Glasshouse
Farplants launch Garden your way to Wellbeing
Bio-based building materials to be introduced at Chelsea
Petite rose from Whartons is a genuine innovation
Enhance the shopping experience and prepare for Natasha’s Law
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Garden Product sales set new rules
Gardeners Delight for Veg-2-Gro sales
June starts with double bubble for compost
Hot weather further stints Wild Bird Care sales
Inside Horticulture: a new magazine to inform and inspire the garden industry in 2021 and beyond
The best of last week's
Tong gets go-ahead to build £14m garden centre
Work on new centre set to start in mid-July
Shed prices set to soar
Private equity group acquires leading garden product firm
Man arrested after burglary at garden centre
Barton Grange Christmas 2020 - Exclusive GTN Xtra Photo Tour
Squires Badshot Lea - Christmas 2020
Perrywood at Christmas 2020 - with correct photo gallery now...
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to the GTN Bestsellers printed weekly newsletter
All the latest news from the world of pet products
Vital Pet Group to exclusively stock leading organic pet food range Yarrah
Expanding pet treat business grows into new premises after surge in demand
Sandringham estate launches Royal dog accessory range
Send us your news and great ideas

Contact us with your news.

Email trevor@pottingshedpress.co.uk or call the GTN News team on 07973 504214

 

 

 

 

 

 


June starts with double bubble for compost

Growing Media sales just keep on growing. Year to date sales are now 20% up on 2019 and 32% up on 2018 volumes.

 

Over all the years and weeks we’ve been analysing the GTN Bestsellers garden centre Epos data there have only been three weeks when volume sales were higher than last week. They were the two weeks after last year’s re-opening and the week before we went into Lockdown #1. And last week was the first week of June! Sales were more than double those of previous first weeks of June.

  • Evergreen Garden Care Miracle-Gro Organic Peat Free 40 litres saw the biggest percentage sales growth to re-enter at No 41.
  • Westland Alpine Planting Mix doubled sales to come back into the Top 50 at No 46.
  • Melcourt SylvaGrow Peat Free Multipurpose 50 litres moved up two places to No 25.

Growing media sales bucked the trend of other cold weather inflicted sales performances. Matching 2019 sales volumes and not far behind 2018 levels when we had a bounce back after the ‘Beast from the East’. No-one expected sales to match last year, but after the huge post Lockdown #1 demand last May, being only 7% behind is a better result than most will have budgetted for.

 

See the full GTN Bestsellers Top 50 charts, compiled from garden centre Epos data every week, with a years subscription to the printed newsletter for only £145.00 using this link.

Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Del.icio.us Digg | Comment (0)
Comment
Name:*

Email Address:*

Comment:*