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How are tool sales faring?
How are your tool sales faring compared with the rest of your business as a whole?

All tools are selling better than the rest of the business as a whole
Only power tools are doing better
Tools are performing about the same as the rest of the business
Tool sales are much worse than our other lines

~Plan it, plant it this autumn~ - that's the latest message from the Horticultural Trades Association, which is hoping to tap...

HTA gift card "has brought £0.5m of extra sales" 16-Jul-2012

An estimated £0.5m extra spend within the garden industry has been generated by the '0,000-plus HTA Garden Gift Cards that ha...

HTA delight as last water bans go 9-Jul-2012

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HTA takes £350,000 out of horticultural retail cost base 20-Jun-2012

The Horticultural Trades Association has agreed a new debit and credit card processing deal with Barclaycard Payment Acceptan...

Everything's coming up roses for HTA plant of the month 7-Jun-2012

The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) has announced the rose as its June plant of the month.

HTA director general retires 28-Nov-2011

The director general of the Horticultural Trades Association, David Gwyther, has retired.

Garden centres should reach out to younger gardeners, says HTA 25-Oct-2011

Garden retailers much reach out to younger customers and embrace new technology to make the most of future sales opportunitie...

Carol Paris elected as HTA president 13-Oct-2011

Garden & Leisure Group operations director was voted in at the HTA AGM yesterday, replacing Scotsdales Garden Centre md Carol...

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B&Q

By james
just how a positive future is predicted astounds me a predicted sales drop of 25% plus and 10m plus losses how will investment of 2.5m recover this
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Dulux Paint prices

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