Even after record weeks in November when Christmas sold through faster than in previous years, garden centres have still been seeing record sales levels into December.
After the end of week 50, the week ending 15th December, the GTN Bestsellers Christmas Top 50 products index recorded another record high for the week and cumulativeley, from the start of October, garden centre Christmas product sales finished 13% up on last year, and 7% up on 2017 which was the previous best year for Christmas sales volumes according to the GTN Bestsellers Epos data.
And it wasn’t just sales of Christmas products that have been flying through garden centre tills. The GTN Bestsellers All Products Total Volume sales index was up by 8% on the same week last year and has reached the year end cumulatively up by 4.2%.
Given the turbulent year for retailing on the high street, at DIY and supermarkets that means garden centres have once again stood out like a bright star, leading the way in creating memorable leisure based shopping and eating experiences.
We can’t wait to report on even more success for garden centres during 2020 and in the meantime all of the team at GTN and Garden Radio wish you all a Very Merry Christmas indeed!
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year: Week 50
• Garden Products Top 50 – up 14%
• Growing Media Top 50 – up 25%
• Wild Bird Care Top 50 – down 13%
• Christmas Top 50 – up 20%
• All Plants index – up 9%
• All Items index - up 8%
Due to a few technical issues we were unable to produce the full GTN Bestsellers Newsletter last week. We'll catch up with a bumper issue in the New Year.
