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Record Growing Media volumes continue to keep all garden centre sales at all time summer high
Pleydell Smithyman celebrate 25 years working with garden centres
READYBLAZE … Safer, Greener and Ready to Burn
Apta looks to strengthen merchandising team
Traeger – the original wood pellet grill
Global Journey Christmas Face Masks coming soon
The Greener Gardening Company works around the clock to meet exceptional demand for growing media 
August heads for all time record plant sales
Look on The Brightside with WIDDOP and Co.
LOFA and the Garden Centre Association grow together
Ball Colegrave reveals top varieties for 2021
Will commercial drivers drown out green recovery?
Children grow their own chips, thanks to Squire's
On The Road – The WIDDOP Roadshow
Glee New Product Awards entries start pouring in
Garland opens new warehouse as sales increase £1m so far this season
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Pots and pot feet figure large in Bestsellers
Covid-19 incidents at Dobbies in Ayr and British Garden Centres at East Durham
August growing media up by 50% already
Feeding garden visitors of the wild variety
The best of last week's
Customers saddened by garden centre closure
Heavy rain dampens sales at garden centres
Cowell’s embraces back-to-school photo opportunity
Face masks from Global Journey are a garden centre bestseller
Introducing Glee Gathering, 15-16 Sept 2020
The UK’s £3.7 billion garden glow up
Garden Centre Photo Tours
Haskins Snowhill re-opens after £15m re-vamp
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Supreme capitalises on well-known names
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Apta looks to strengthen merchandising team
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Heavy rain dampens sales at garden centres

After the heatwave came a weekend of heavy rain and thunderstorms and guess what, sales from garden centres dipped, but they are still ahead of any of the previous four years sales for the same August week.

 

Hopefully a weekend of drier, all be it windier weather will encourage people back out into their gardens and to garden centres to buy some more plants, growing media, pots and bulbs for the Autumn.  

 

From the depths of the GTN Bestsellers Epos data we can also see that where a few Christmas lines have been put out on shelves they are selling through straight away.

 

Decorative facemasks and sanitiser products are a new area of sales that garden centres are benefitting from.  The volume of facemasks and sanitisers sold last week was higher than our recorded sales of Wild Bird Care products and Veg-2-Gro lines.

 

GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 33

•           Garden Products Top 50 – up 44%

•           Growing Media Top 50 – up 93%

•           Wild Bird Care Top 50 – down 20%

•           Veg 2 Gro Top 50 – up 50%

 

GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes compared to the same week last year: week 33

•           All Plants with Barcode index – up 40%

•           All Items with Barcode index – up 23%

 

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