September closed up 4% year on year and 7% above the average for the previous six years as a result of increased plant sales and an early surge on Christmas.
Of the GTN Bestsellers Top 50 indexes, Garden Products sales were static year on year for the month with Growing Media down 9% and Veg-to-Gro sales down 16%.
The GTN Plants volume sales index was up by 7% for September with Pansies the biggest seller of the month.
Christmas product sales have started to come through in the EPOS data supplied to GTN Bestsellers over the past two weeks and show an early 37% increase in volumes compared to the same time last year.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...