April sunshine is encouraging people into action in their gardens, and sales at garden centres are up year on year since Easter 2015, according to GTN Bestsellers.

A few more weeks of improved sales as we move towards May will see cumulative volumes of all garden centre sales lines for the year up on
2014.

Growing Media and Veg-2-Gro cumulative chart sales volumes are already up on 2014 levels indicating a strong desire to get gardening this year.

Provided the weather warms up during May we should see strong garden product sales and garden furniture sales too.

Judging by the sales of Rocky Mountain Mega Marshmallows last week the BBQ season has now started – they would have just made it into the Top 50 if we included sweets in the GTN Charts. Is this the new barometer for the outdoor leisure market?

How are you maximising furniture sales in-store as opposed to losing them to the internet? Let us know and we’ll carry reports in GTN Xtra throughout the season. Email trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk

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

• Garden Products – down 7%
• Veg-2-Gro Products – up 55%
• Growing Media – up 12%
• All items index – up 5%

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