May sales boom sets us on course for 10% up on last year
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The boom of May sales continues despite the weather being not that great and the GTN Bestsellers All Products Index now shows a 6.7% increase on garden centre volume sales year on year.
With reasonable weather this Bank Holiday weekend and for the start of June it’s possible that volume sales could be up by as much as 10%.
Garden Product sales are leading the way in the GTN Bestsellers Charts, now up 12% on last year with products backed by TV advertising faring particulry well in the Bestsellers stakes.
Veg plants are also seling well, bringing the Veg-2-Grow year-on-year comparison into the black for the first time in 2013. We can aslo see that plant sales in general are up on last year too!
The one area of concern in the GTN Charts is growing media, where volume sales are still 9% down on last year and a whopping 30% down on 2011. History tells us the peak for growing media sales is way past us but will this Bank Holiday weekend prove past trends to be wrong as more of the country gets active in the garden?
GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes compared to the same week last year:
- Garden Products – up 45%
- Veg-2-Gro – up 81%
- Growing Media – up 26%
- All items index – up 29%
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