It has been a funny old year doing the GTN Bestsellers charts every week. For once the weather has been much more helpful, but now that the uncertainty regarding the future of Solus has been resolved, we can sit back and ask: What has been the effect on volume sales?
Over the past four weeks products that have appeared regularly in the Garden Products Top 50 from Town & Country, Vitax and Fito have been either missing from the chart or running at significantly lower sales volumes and chart positions.
Contrast this with products supplied direct, such as solar lighting from Gardman and Smart Solar, which have been riding high.
Trying to quantify the effect on sales would take many hours and several crystal balls but we certainly expect perennial bestselling products to rise up the chart once new and revised distribution plans are put into place.
How have you coped with the distribution issues? Have you managed to stock and sell alternative products? Let us know: trevor.pfeiffer@tgcmc.co.uk
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year
- Garden Products – up 2%
- Veg 2 Gro – down 6%
- Growing Media – down 17%
- All items index – up 1%
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