In This Issue
"New Gardeners", how are garden centres reacting to them, or not...
Back to the ‘New Normal’
Garden Pride are fully stocked and ready for Christmas
Paul Sykes departs Apta after a decade of growth
Autumn plant sales stay way ahead
Two-thirds more gardening this Autumn
Gardening grows green shoots of optimism
Greenfingers completes 59th and 60th garden projects
The lockdown gardeners – who are they and how do we keep them?
Dobbies and the HTA urge people to #KeepBritainGrowing
Gardenex, PetQuip and the CHA welcome rises in membership
Top selling tools from Darlac after lockdown
Burgon & Ball launches new designs for RHS Gifts for Gardeners range
Garden centre creates 24 jobs at new restaurant
Get your own copy of GTN Xtra
Harrogate Christmas & Gift Fair moves to February
Smart welcomes new National Accounts Manager
Gardeners get active again and sales jump
RHS and Scholastic to launch new activity books for children
Christmas not growing as fast as last year
Digital edition of GrootGroenPlus 2020 hailed a success
From Liverpool to Cornwall - rich harvest for national wildflower centre
The best of last week's
When it rains... sales fall. Garden centre business as normal...
Rosebourne sign up Whalley and Ormrod
Tong applies for planning permission for a second site
Pet and garden store chain commits to the high street
Fire & water - Woodlodge adds to product line-up
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
Bestsellers Top 50 charts every week
Buy your subscription to the GTN Bestsellers printed weekly newsletter
All the latest news from the world of pet products
Pets Choice buys pet accessory business The Animate Company
Luxury dog accessory range launched
PATS Telford Best in Show revealed
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When it rains... sales fall. Garden centre business as normal...
Exclusive GTN Bestsellers Epos data analysis

 

Just in case we’d all forgotten, when it’s raining, cold and windy garden centre sales fall. Fact. After four weeks of balmy September weather, when sales soared way above previous year levels, storm Alice came along and brought garden centre sales back down to more normal levels for the time of year, all be it still 5% up on last year.  

 

In a normal year we’d be writing headlines about sales being 5% up, but it all seems like a bit of a disappointment after the rocking and rolling year we’ve had since garden centres re-opened.

 

Even Christmas sales failed to beat last year for the first week of October. Our GTN All Plants index was up by 8% on last year for the week, growing media continued to shine at 22% up and Veg-2-Gro increased by 23%. 

 

As more garden centres open their Christmas displays we wait with baited breath to see how sales continue during the rest of the month.

 

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 40

  • Garden Products Top 50 – down 12%
  • Growing Media Top 50 – up 22%
  • Wild Bird & Wildlife Care Top 50 – down 2%
  • Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – up 23%
  • Christmas Top 50 – down 27%

GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 40

  • All Plants with Barcode index – up 8%
  • All Items with Barcode index – up 5%

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