The May Day Bank Holiday proved to be a second bumper Bank Holiday Monday for 2015, according to EPoS data supplied by garden centres for GTN Bestsellers.  

Volume sales were up in all departments with garden lighting and veg plants for Grow Your Own the star performers.

With warmer temperatures forecast and all the media publicity surrounding Chelsea Flower Show on the horizon for next week, the omens are starting to point towards a bumper May for garden centre sales all around.

We continue to hear of huge increases in garden furniture sales too, resulting in big turnover increases year on year.  Why do you think customers are buying more garden furniture in centres this year? Has the garden furniture internet bubble burst? Why are sales so good despite the colder spring? Do you expect the same performance for BBQs?  If you can shed any light on these questions please email trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk

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

• Garden Products – down 7%
• Veg-2-Gro Products – up 43%
• Growing Media – up 6%
• All items index – up 1%

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