With three weeks to go, it looks as though the GTN Bestsellers prediction of a new winter sales volume peak is on the cards. This week’s Epos data sales volumes are currently standing at less than 1% off the peak from last year. 

We don’t have to speculate about November sales though. A sparkling performance throughout the month makes it the busiest November for five years, some 16% up on the same month in 2012 and even higher than the last big November recorded by GTN Bestsellers in 2010.

With garden centres being so busy, life is not easy for the judges for The Greatest Christmas Awards. The experts are clocking up the miles visiting over 200 garden centre teams and collecting information for the judging day later this month. The awards will be presented on Sunday, 12 January 2014 at The Greatest Awards Christmas Party in Harrogate.

If you believe your team is The Greatest at Christmas there’s still time to get your customers voting.  Email trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk or call 07973 504214 and we’ll give you access to all the free voting material that can be downloaded and printed out for your centre.

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

• Garden Products – up 15%
• Christmas – down 9%
• Growing Media – up 30%
• All items index – up 13%

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