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The Garden Centre Group acquires Brooks in Bude to bring its number of stores to 140
Tushingham takes top sales job at Smart Solar
What a difference a Spring makes to garden centre sales
Garden industry marketing initiative gathers momentum
Time to light up sales of outdoor garden items
WIN a display of Resolva 24H
It's time to enter the Greatest Awards 2014
Pet care firm Seahorse Atlantic 'branching' out into gardening
Deco-Pak’s new Easybuild range designed to make DIY easy for all
Stewart Garden propagators help drive increase in grow your own
Weedkiller packaging revolution from Bayer Garden
Expansion at Sneyd’s Wonderfeeds leads to new appointment
If catering and food are your growth areas our new Food Xtra will help you
Floralsilk recruiting new Regional Account Managers
Britain's most popular gardening book is revised
Farmyard manure rises to the top
Hedgehog-friendly garden selected for Hampton Court flower show
Timber and fence panel shortage, says Forest Garden
Hillier at 150: The remarkable history of a horticultural legend
Tomato plants still in demand
Special offers on pond fish from Prestopets
Nation's gardening annoyances revealed
New e-learning course for garden retail staff
Emus return to the Lost Gardens
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What a difference a Spring makes to garden centre sales



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

  • Garden Products – up 87%
  • Veg-2-Gro – up 100%
  • Growing Media – up 133%
  • All items index – up 75%

Everything is on the ‘up’ this week in garden centre sales terms, according to the Epos data supplied for the weekly GTN Bestsellers charts. And all because we’re actually having a Spring this year.

Look at those year-on-year increases from the same time last year – for instance, Growing Media volumes are up by 133%.

Customers are active on their plots and spending more time visiting and buying from garden centres – probably more than 75% up on footfall, using the GTN Bestsellers total volume sales as an indicator.

With Mothers’ Day on Sunday and more good spring-like weather forecast, we could be reporting record sales levels for the whole of March when we comple next week’s charts.

How are your volume sales looking for the first quarter? Up by 20% or more? And what promotions do you have planned to make sure you stay ahead as we move into  April? Let us know by emailing trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk

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