Late February sales dip...but not the worst winter ever
Wet weather may well have caught up with garden centre customers in the second half of February, leading to total volumes in the GTN Bestsellers Sales index dropping below last year, but an analysis of sales from December to February shows a rise of 14.55% year on year.
It was no surprise to learn that provisional rainfall figures (from 1 December 2013 to 25 February 2014) confirmed the UK had experienced its wettest winter since the national series records began in 1910. New records have been set for many parts of the UK, with south-east and central southern England having seen well over double the rainfall expected in a normal winter. But it hasn’t been the worst winter for garden centre trading.
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year- Garden Products – down 5%
- Veg-2-Gro – up 1%
- Growing Media – down 1%
- All items index – up 7%
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