The Garden Centre Association says its members can make up for April losses by the end of May...and bulbs, down 19.2 per cent, and hard landscaping, down 31 per cent. Slinger added: "Many garden centres ... . With warmer weather anticipated, we believe that garden centres will have a much more successful May ... so garden centres should be capitalising on the extra window this has provided for people to continue ...
Barbecue sales fell from £360m a year to £330m over the period 2007-11, with garden furniture sales...-powered from £226m to £204m, all seeing big falls in 2011. Total garden care was down from £1.596bn to £1.284bn. Responding, the HTA said: "There will be particular pressure on garden furniture ranges aimed at younger ...
What a wretched contrast to the start of the garden retail season in 2011 this season's opening has...Now, Blue Ribbon Plants sales manager Philip Sanders and Garden Centre Association chief executive ... weather in 30 years of business. This excessively late start has brought with it garden centres ... base revved up and ready to go gardening. Combined with a generally better forecast for many parts ...
Garden centres see April sales fall by 36 per cent on 2011 and no let-up in early figures for May....April garden centre sales were a disaster and the first week of May has seen no let ... with the first week down 20-40 per cent on 2011. Garden Centre Association (GCA) figures show sales down 36 per ... the season, although the opportunity to maximise sales is getting compressed." Alton Garden Centre ...
Retailers nationwide are feeling the pain in line with garden centre owners, some of whom have...figures showed mid-tier April retailers like-for-like sales down by 0.8 per cent year-on-year. Garden ...
bills have hit tool and material sales, in everything from spanners to garden trimmers, declining ...
Grower/retailer Golden Acres Nurseries operations manager Simon Edwards said wastage was low despite sales being 35 per cent down in April and 10-20 per cent down so far in May in his five garden ... ," Edwards said. Alton Garden Centre director Andy Bunker agreed that plants were looking "great" but also ...
April sales at garden centres were 36 per cent down on average this April according to Garden...The survey of 25 garden centres found outdoor plants and furniture and barbecues did worst, at 51 per cent down on April 2011. Early indications show year to date figures are 14.6 per cent down. GCA chairman Peter Burks said: "There s two things about it. The weather was so horrendous ...
Sales for some garden centres were almost halved last month compared to the previous year after...Alton Garden Centre director Andy Bunker said plant sales were 46 per cent down compared to April ... might not have good enough weather to bring gardeners out and satisfy pent-up demand. Squire s MD ... down in April. The weather was the final straw. April has been the biggest disaster and if garden ...
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