Primeur won the Sword of Excellence at the GIMA Awards last night with their Tierra Verde Recycled Rubber Planters. Other winners on a spectacular night of celebration at Celtic Manor in Wales included: Smart Garden Products, Hozelock, Gardena, EP Barrus, Chesneys, Farplants, Forest Garden, Treadstone, RSW International, Vitax and Westland…
Here's our picture special from last night's glitzy GIMA Awards evening, hosted by TV celebrity Vernon Kay. Pictures taken by Steve Burden and Trevor Pfeiffer...
After all that rain we wanted the sunshine, but not the heat. Sales for the last week dropped by 4% and that meant June overall sales volumes, as measured by the GTN Bestsellers Epos data, were down by 12% on June 2018...
After last year’s brilliant May and June for plant sales everyone said we should wait until the end of June 2019 to make real year-on-year comparisons. And the results are in: Year to date plant sales volumes are down by 6% on 2018 but up by 2% on 2017...
The wet June that ended just too hot meant the GTN Bestsellers Garden Product Top 50 sales volumes were the lowest of the last six years, continuing the overall downward Top 50 trend...
Despite June growing media sales being 17% down on last year at the end of the half year overall growing media sales are up by 8% year on year and up 5% on 2017...
Wild Bird Care sales held their own in June with one very good week at the start of the month and then three weeks that were not so good. At the half year Wild Bird Care is up 7.5% on 2018...
At the half year Veg-2-Gro cumulative sales are up by 48% and the June increase in sales of 4% helped keep momentum going in the right direction, as opposed to all plant sales. Veg-2-Gro really has performed well as a sector in 2019.
