First half down! Will Christmas get sales back into the black?
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A wet June capped off an “interesting” first half of the year, according to the GTN Bestsellers data. Our index of All Sales ended down 2.8%, the Garden Products Top 50 volumes down 4.1%, and Veg-2-Gro Top 50 sales down 25%.
Only the GTN Growing Media Top 50 managed to hold its own throughout the first part of the year to end on 5.6% up on 2015.
Normally that would be taken as welcome news, indicating plenty of growing activity taking place. However, better sales of leisure gardening products would have made all the difference.
All is not lost, however, in the pursuit of year on year growth. All we need is a greater than 2% increase on last year’s volumes over the second half of the year and 2016 will be another record breaker. Roll on Christmas!
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
- Garden Products - down 20%
- Veg-2-Gro - down 1%
- Growing Media - down 11%
- All Items Index - down 5%
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