Garden is getting lost

摘要

Says John Ashley, commercial sales director at Scotts (UK). garden centres are losing out in market share because they are concentrating on the sexy departments of gifts and restaurants, and taking their eye off their core business of garden care products. A wake-up call to garden centre retailers is being sounded as figures from GkK DIY Trak show that while the value of the ferts and chems market grew by 6.2 percent to pound 103 million pound in 203 most of this increase was bing pinched by high street and diy multiple outlets.