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Total volume sales up 3.6%, Garden Products sales up 11.7%, Growing Media sales up 87% and Veg 2 Gro sales static. That’s the year on year index numbers from The GTN Bestsellers charts for January. Another 11 months li.....

The Greatest Christmas Winners Revealed

http://tgcmc.newsweaver.co.uk/gtnxtra/xt58nf9mjtx Paste this link into your browser to see the GTN Xtra e-newsletter with all The Greatest Christmas Awards 2011 Results......

Autumn gardening prospects look good

Prospects for a good season of autumn gardening sales look good with growing media, alpines and bulbs leading the way mid August. This week’s GTN Bestsellers charts see a 3% growth on last week for the Top 50 growing me.....

Bee-Friendly twist for Bulb Sales

The addition of a Bee-Friendly logo on many Taylors Bulb packs and the announcement of the RHS Perfect for Pollinators plant list, has prompted some garden centres to build their bulb display around that theme as many ga.....

Extended Sales from Living Displays

Stewarts GardenLands have added changing colour to their beds in their car parks and entrance areas and increased product sales at the same time.
By simply sowing a range of NovaFlore Floral meadow seeds they have cre.....

Christmas Bestsellers in July

There’s a new Bestselling Christmas range that’s top of the charts in UK garden centres – and it’s a growing range. Christmas veg is the new vogue for gardeners looking for that extra bit of fresh home grown content for.....

Summer Orchid Sales

There’s plenty of summer Orchid activity going on according to the GTN Bestsellers Charts this week with a sudden surge of Orchid related product sales moving up and into the Top 50 charts.
• Growth Technology Orchid .....

Christmas Spud Surge

Sales of Seed Potatoes for planting now and harvesting fresh on Christmas Day have been surging this year. Packs of 9 tubers for autumn planting from Taylors Bulbs and Have a Grow packs from Unwins have already sold thr.....

Sort your Christmas Music NOW

It’s only July but the Garden Radio team are already making plans for their Christmas Music services on Garden Radio this year. Garden Centres that play Garden Radio get great feedback from both customers and staff abou.....

Did we miss a trick?

Given the high numbers of customers in garden centres during March and April and the drop off through May and June did we miss a trick by not working hard enough to get or customers back on a regular basis?

As we .....

Mystery creates opportunities

As part of the final judging process for the Greatest Awards this year over 20 Mystery Shopping and Dining visits were organised to really find out how good the shortlisted teams were when it came to a customer’s perspec.....

Regal Retailing

There was no escaping the British bash of the century last week as the second in line to the throne married his sweetheart. It would seem the public relished in picking up something special to commemorate the occasion, .....