Time to discover the bestsellers of tomorrow
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It’s that time of year when we all take a deep breath and start heading off for a month of shows and events that will shape next year’s trading and inevitably the GTN Bestsellers charts.
This week several UK suppliers have jetted off to the USA for the Chicago Trade Fair. Then next week there is Plantarium in Holland nd at the end of the week it’s off to Germany for spoga+gafa.
GTN will be taking a party over to Koln, courtesy of the organisers, so that we can announce and present The Greatest Outdoor Living Retailing Awards, the next instalment of The Greatest Awards on Tour for 2015.
After spoga+gafa it’s off to the NEC for Autumn Fair, to Four Oaks, and if you are looking for potential new food bestselling lines you’ll probably be popping into The Speciality and Find Foods Fair at Olympia from the 6th to the 8th of September.
Phew, it’s then only two working days and a weekend until Glee opens on Monday 14th September 2015. Judging by all the pre-show activity and the impressive list of new products being entered, this year’s show looks like being even more useful than last year.
If you are up for even more trade shows, on September 24th and 25th there is Lunch! at the Islington Business centre where we know several readers have found good ideas and inspiration for their coffee shops and restaurants in recent years.
And then to round off September we will be at HTA Futures in Oxfordshire on the 30th. He we are keen to find out more results from the HTA Eye Tracking research that took place earlier this year in the planteria at Hilltop Garden Centre (we expect that to be worth the conference fee in itself) and of course present the final instalment of The Greatest awards ON TOUR 2015 after dinner that night.
I feel exhausted just having written about it all let alone attending many if not all of the events. Do let us know if we’ve missed anything though, we wouldn’t want anyone to have a quiet day or two.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year...
- Garden Products - static 0%
- Veg-2-Gro Products - up 29%
- Growing Media - up 34%
- All Items Index - up 12 %
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