As we reach the summer flattening of sales volumes, we must wait to see if the weather or the burgeoning economic confidence has any influence on visits to garden centres.  Sales volumes, year to date, are currently 1.9% up on 2012, up 15.2% on 2013 and now down 1% on 2011.

There was a particularly confident mood at SOLEX this week, suggesting that most centres are continuing to look positively at summer sales.  Most exhibitors reported increased orders for 2015 on furniture and BBQs.

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

• Garden Products – up 29%
• Veg 2 Gro – up 24%
• Growing Media – up 98%
• All items index – up 38%

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