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Amazing August sales
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The Alternative Hose
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Exciting opportunity at Creative Products
Dobbies announces ‘Not Your Average Gardener’ award winners
GCA announces regional awards meetings
Torrential rainfall delays autumn bulb harvest
Dobbies launches nationwide votes for community garden funding
Time to adjust to online sales trend says furniture supplier EKJU
Why does Hobby & Handmade have the WoW Factor? Find out at Glee
Ecommerce ready garden furniture from EKJU
Autumn Fair launches official app
Darlac helps Chelsea Pensioners do a spot of gardening
Smart LEDs add touch of brilliance to Elho's pure range of pots
Chelsea garden promotes GYO and stylish new Muck Boot range
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GCA adds 'poisonous plants' module to e-learning system
RHS and Hug Rug partner on a range of eco-friendly, British-made mats
No Plantarium…but new plant awards go ahead at GROEN-Direkt trade show
Beverley wins week-end beak for 2 in SOLEX ONLINE draw
SOLEX 2021 On-Line remains open for buyers looking for next seasons bestsellers
The best of last week's
Bill Bickerdike, one of "the gang", has died
T&M for sale with up to £200m price tag say city sources
Impact of Brexit sees horticultural business export almost 40% fewer plants to EU markets so far this year
Last chance to nominate the best buyers of the past eighteen months?
August starts with sales uplift!
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
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RECOUP highlights need for plastics films and flexibles recycling solutions
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Amazing August sales

Garden Centre sales keep bucking “normal” trends this summer with sales volumes reported in the GTN Bestsellers aggregated garden centre Epos data staying at the high level of the first week in August when normally we’d all be expecting sales to be tailing off before the start of an increase for Autumn gardening.

 

That all meant sales for the second week of August 2021 were 19% higher than in August 2020 and a whopping 47% ahead of 2019 levels.

 

With bulbs only just being delivered into centres after the late harvest this year plant sales and Veg 2 Gro sales both were 15% up on last year.

 

Watch this space to see how Autumn gardening activity tracks against previous years…

 

Please note our last week, year on year comparisons, below, are now back to 2020.

 

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week in 2020: week 33.

  • Garden Products Top 50 – down 8%
  • Growing Media Top 50 – down 6%
  • Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – up 15%
  • Wild Bird & Wildlife Care Top 50 – up 35%

 

GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes compared to the same week in 2020: week 33.

•           All Plants with Barcode index – up 15%

•           All Items with Barcode index – up 19%

 

 

 

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