4 March 2022
Fabulous February New Product of the Week Here’s a potential new Bestseller that GTN received details of this week. Hortiwool is a plastic-free sustainable garden pad using 100% British sheep’s wool. Hortiwool tell us it is versatile and can be used in lots of different ways in the garden, such as lining hanging baskets, frost protection, nutritional aid, pest control, mulching…the list goes on! See more information at: www.hortiwool. com/products/hortiwool-pouch or contact sales@woolcool.com
The storms in the middle of ALL EPOS PRODUCTS INDEX the month may have dented YEAR-TO-DATE YEAR-TO-DATE YEAR-TO-DATE WEEK-ON-WEEK garden centre sales but they VS 2021 VS 2020 VS 2019 came roaring back last week to cap off a fabulous month. Total garden centre sales volumes were up by 36% on 2021, up by 25% on 2020 +35.2% +84.8% +17.3% +20.3% and 19% on 2019. Volume sales movement compared to last week and That just illustrates the year to date across all garden centre sales in the GTN Bestsellers EPoS database. strength of appeal garden centres have at the moment, not just for plants and gardening Year on year comparisons below: lines, but also for their wonderful GTN Bestsellers Top 50 sales volumes catering offerings and the compared to the same week in 2021: wk 8 plethora of other lines, including Garden Products Top 50 – up 2% kitchenware, gifts and food. Growing Media Top 50 – down 21% With Garden Re-Leaf Day on Veg-2-Gro Top 50 – down 21% 19th March and Mother’s Day on Wild Bird & Wildlife Top 50 – down 25% 27th March we have two wonderful opportunities to build on this GTN Bestsellers All Sales volumes: wk 8 All Plants with Barcode Index – up 2% strength and kick off the season All Items with Barcode Index – down 3% with a spring in our step.
4 March, 2022
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