October breaks sales records in garden centres
Record sales for October are confirmed by GTN Bestsellers after a bumper half-term week saw garden centre sales reach their highest level for the last eight years, even when you take into account the fact that half term varies between weeks 43 and 44 in some years.
According to EPoS data supplied for GTN Bestsellers, sales for weeks 40-43 were up by 11% on last year. Christmas sales contributed a lot with the GTN Bestsellers Christmas Top 50 sales up by 61%.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
- Garden Products - up 5%
- Growing Media - up 29%
- Christmas Products - up 122%
- All Items Index - up 24%
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