Even though we had that bad week during the middle of September, the Indian Summer we’d all hoped for ran to the end of the month. Sales in the GTN Bestsellers Epos data show September 2013 as being the best of the past five years, even beating 2010 volumes by 9%.

The last week of the month was especially improved on last year – all that bad weather has been eradicated from our memories. Long may it continue.
GTN Chart specific volume changes are:

• Garden Products – up 42%
• Veg-2-Gro – up 4%
• Growing Media – up 52%
• All items index – up 30%

But another factor may well be the completion and opening of Christmas in some stores for last weekend. We’ll publish the first GTN Bestsellers Christmas chart in full next week, but in the meantime here are the early pacesetters.

The sales volume of the Top 20 Christmas lines sales increased by 90% compared to the same week in 2012. We should be in for a good one!

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