In This Issue
Garden Centres Easter TV and Radio Spectacular
Good Friday - how was it for you?
Temperatures down 20% Sales down 40%
Wild bird care a welcome sales bright spot
Summer Colour TV slot lifts the gloom
Drip feeders are the only sales increase year on year
Record showcase of new products at The Natural Food Show
Garden centres rely on pent-up demand to revive sales after late spring
Up for the cup!
Briercliffe leaves HTA for new international role
Colour your Life campaign wins backing from Flower Council of Holland
Top 10 selling items in garden centres
Tee off for the GIMA Golf Day and raise money for charity
Lighten up...it could be worse!
Keeping it in the family
Peppa the Pig raises a smile
Stock up on the award winning Roundup Gel
Hillier take a 'risk' at Chelsea
Darlac celebrate 50th anniversary
Notcutts re-launch e-commerce site
GTN Bestsellers - garden centre sales data every week
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
 

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Drip feeders are the only sales increase year on year
 
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The GTN Bestsellers charts this week reflect, as if we didn’t know it, that most people stayed indoors last weekend and tried their best to keep warm. The only product across all the Top 10s of the three weekly GTN charts that sold more volume than in the same week last year were Fito Orchid Drip feeders, amazingly up by 4% year on year.

While many products we’d expect to be selling at the moment sat on shelves instead of moving through tills, sales of some vegetable seeds did well and seed propagation products faired better than most. Our guess is that your really keen customers with greenhouse heaters are just carrying on regardless.

  • Gardman Gravel Seed Trays moved 12 places up the Garden Products chart to No 21.
  • James Wong’s Cucamelon Seeds from Suttons climbed 21 places in the Veg-2-Gro chart into the Top 10.
  • Creative Products Seeder also moved into the Top 10 of the Garden Products Chart.

The cold temperatures caused a spike in garden glove sales.  Gardman have a new entry at No 20. 

And despite the cold weather Kaemingk’s LED Solar lights sold more week on week to become the second highest selling garden product this week.

On the growing media front it’s a sorry stay-at-home picture. Top 50 sales were 68% down on the same week for the last two years and only 13 lines increased their sale week on week when you’d be expecting all growing media lines to be on the up.

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