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Tackling the big garden industry issue: growing media and peat...what happens next?
Will the Washout from the West be as bad for garden centre business as the Beast From the East?
Drive sales this Garden Re-Leaf Day with a Greenfingers product display
Sponges - the new gardening bestsellers?
Impressive sum raised for Thrive at open day
Gina and John heading to Monte Carlo in £500 banger
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Great start to a new season for Durstons
Homebase to sponsor IT'V's Love Your Garden
GIMA Innovators’ Seed Corn Fund 2019 winners: Natural Grower – how the award has helped shape their business
2019 was the year of the houseplant says GCA
Garden centres off to a strong start in 2020 according to HTA Market Update
Boosting category growth in UK garden retailers
More names sign up to the 2020 Garden Re-Leaf Sponsored Walk & Cycle Challenge
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Homebase makes early return to profit
Garden centre boss who stole almost half a million pounds has hearing adjourned
Bradford Garden Centre creates new role to oversee expansion plans
RSPB calls for nests not nets
Primeur’s Eco Garden stands transform retailers’ displays as the gardening season begins
The best of last week's
Celebrity joins fight to prevent garden centre closure
Highfield Garden World gets green light for £2m expansion
Storm Dennis takes the shine off sales
Key retailers to headline GIMA Day Conference
Garden Centre Photo Tours
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Leading associations reveal plans for Commercial Kitchen Show
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Will the Washout from the West be as bad for garden centre business as the Beast From the East?

Another weekend of high winds and rain pushed the GTN Bestsellers All Products Sales Index down to the lowest level the past 10 years for week 8.

 

Although sales increased by 5% on the previous week, by last Sunday the year to date sales, as monitored via EPoS data by GTN Bestsellers, had dropped to -0.5% down on last year and 7.4% up on 2018.

 

It was Week 9 in 2018 that we first got hit by the Beast from the East and garden centre sales hit an all time low.  With a brief respite to the rain and some sunshine in parts of the country hopefully Week 9 2020 won't see a repeat of that.

 

In an interview with GTN for the March issue, Steve Harper suggested that all garden centres should be making the most of soil improver and conditioner sales over the coming weeks.  "Garden Centres should be offering multi-buys of soil conditioners now as the soil structure and all nutrients will have leached out as a result of all this rain."

 

You can read GTN's full interview with Steve Harper about the Growing Media Responsible Sourcing Scheme using this link

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