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Reinhards Reindeer Rentals
Carol Paris appointed HTA Chief Executive on full time basis
Poor weather dents hope of a great Autumn for gardening
Still some evidence of garden activity
Biggest show yet for the increasingly popular lunch! show
New product that caught our eye at Glee
Forest Garden showcases contemporary new products for 2014 season
Christmas Bestsellers are coming soon
All the Glee News officially from
Are you underestimating the importance of your kitchen design?
Teddy Bear's Picnic success at Van Hage Great Amwell
Smart Solar take over €750,000 worth or orders at Spoga/Gafa
GIMA Award for Bradstone at Glee
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Onion season returns to bestsellers
Pret a Manger MD joins HTA Garden Futures line-up
Rubber mulch chips star during disappointing week
New Sales Director for Solus Garden & Leisure
High hopes for Casual Dining event
Winner of free design consultation courtesy of Catering Design Group
Glee panel session talks of appealing to a younger audience
From Lunch! to new coffee shop
GTN Bestsellers - garden centre sales data every week
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
 
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Poor weather dents hope of a great Autumn for gardening


The weather is playing its part again as cold winds and rain appear to have put paid to an Autumn gardening bonanza.  

This week’s Garden Products Growing Media and Veg-2-Gro GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes are all considerably down on the same week last year.

Total garden centre volume sales are however still up year on year, so we can once again count ourselves lucky that even when the weather isn’t so good, customers are happy to come and spend time and money in garden centres.

Looking through the Epos data sent to GTN each week, the ‘bad weather’ big volume lines have mainly been Christmas related –  cards, calendars and personalised baubles.

We’ll hold off from publishing the GTN Bestsellers Christmas Chart until the start of October though so we can see if Autumn gardening does get back on track. We can use Onion Sets as a good barometer of activity.

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year:
  • Garden Products – down 10%
  • Veg-2-Gro – down 33%
  • Growing Media – down 10%
  • All items index – up 16%
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