Garden centre volume sales took a bit of a dip last week but still ran at 5% ahead of last year.
Core gardening activity didn’t seem to suffer though with growing media and plant sales volumes being 33% and 6% up on the same week last year.
Christmas sales were down 15% on last year, but some of that could be movements of half term weeks across the country. We’ll have a better picture after this week.
Judging by the queues at garden centre restaurants we’ve seen this week choosing to dine out a gardening centre during half term week has certainly proved popular.
Hopefully all the good PR garden centres received back in April and May that led to the early re-opening stands us in good stead to remain open in England and Scotland, and back open in Wales, through until Christmas.
As we go to press we’ve just learned that the ‘Keep Britain Blooming’ campaign has won a major PR Award. Well done and thank you to all concerned.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 43
- Garden Products Top 50 – down 1%
- Growing Media Top 50 – up 33%
- Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – up 64%
- Wild Bird & Wildlife Care Top 50 – up 2%
- Christmas Top 50 – down 15%
GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 43
- All Plants with Barcode index – up 6%
- All Items with Barcode index – up 5%
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