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Christmas sales up 24% in first three weeks of October
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Picture Special of the glitzy GIMA Awards evening
GIMA presents £10,000 cheque to Greenfingers
Primeur adds another GIMA Award to its trophy cabinet
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Five minutes with Primeur's National Account Manager
HTA comments on the appointment of Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister
J. Parker’s releases new seeds range to grow on a budget
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GCA Conference back on for 2023
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Christmas sales up 24% in first three weeks of October

Plants and Christmas have been the star performers so far this October according to the GTN Bestsellers weekly EPOS data analysis.

 

Plants sales in the first three weeks of October have been 3.2% up on 2021 volumes and 14% up on 2019 which means the GTN Bestsellers Year to date All Plant sales volume index now sits at 9.3% down on 2021 but 7.5% up on 2019.

 

Christmas sales have really excelled so far this month.  The GTN Bestsellers Top 50 Christmas Products index for the first three weeks of October shows sales volumes up by 24.2% on last year and 5% up on 2019.  With haft term week’s data to be analysed this week we could be on for a record October for Christmas.  Watch this space for the full months analysis and the first GTN Bestsellers Christmas Charts of the year.

 

 

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week in 2021: week 42.

  • Garden Products Top 50 – down 20%
  • Growing Media Top 50 – down 23%
  • Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – down 21%
  • Wild Bird & Wildlife Care Top 50 – down 23%
  • Christmas Top 50 – up 17%

GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes compared to the same week in 2021: week 42.

•           All Plants with Barcode index – down 15%

•           All Items with Barcode index – down 7%

 

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week in 2019: week 42.

  • Garden Products Top 50 – down 17%
  • Growing Media Top 50 – up 29%
  • Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – up 109%
  • Wild Bird & Wildlife Care Top 50 – down 37%
  • Christmas Top 50 – up 6%

GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes compared to the same week in 2019: week 42

•           All Plants with Barcode index – up 12%

•           All Items with Barcode index – up 20%

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