Record sales weeks are being reported as we travel the country meeting teams for The Greatest Christmas Awards.
By the middle of next week over 140 garden centres will have been visited by one of The Greatest Christmas Awards experts – a record entry for our pretisgious event.
Without doubt, the teamwork and creativity that has gone into Christmas 2014 is amazing and there are plenty of customers leaving garden centres with beaming smiles and baskets of products.
The GTN Bestsellers aggregated Epos data shows the first week of December as the third highest week of the year for volume sales, but with two weekends left until Christmas we could reach higher levels still before the end of the year.
The GTN team are looking forward to seeing many of you at The Greatest Christmas Awards party in the New Year (January 11).
Tickets are selling fast, so please reserve yours today to make sure you are there for the announcement of The Greatest Christmas Teams of 2014. You are guaranteed to have a great time.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
- Garden Products – down 35%
- Xmas Products – down 16%
- Growing Media – down 8%
- All items index – down 18%
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