Gardening media frenzy over Chelsea boosts sales...
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As Chelsea grabs the headlines and gardening gets incredible amounts of air time, the GTN Bestsellers All Products Index moves above the last two years for the first time in the past five weeks.
With the weather forecast looking good for the Whitsun Bank Holiday and through half-term these could be the weeks everyone is waiting for to get volume sales back into much higher year-on-year figures. The last 11 weeks cumulative volume sales in the GTN Bestsellers Index are just about even with last year at minus 0.3%. The sales for the rest of May and June need to be up by about 15% to get to positive territory at the half year. As well as all the Chelsea air time, did you hear Matthew Bent on BBC Radio 5 Live’s ‘Wake up to Money’ on Monday? You can listen via the BBC iplayer: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vc9kg#auto, Matthew’s interview is at 39 minutes 15 seconds into the programme. GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year... - Garden Products – down 4%
- Veg-2-Gro Products – up 76%
- Growing Media – down 4%
- All items index – up 5%
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