Sales of soils and related products down

In France the GfK has registered a decline in the sale of soils, fertilizers and pesticides sold through DIY stores and garden centres in 2006 that amounted to € 18 mio, or 2.9 per cent. Soils recorded a decline of 5.2 per cent, making them the hardest hit, followed by fertilisers (-3.5 per cent) and pesticides (-0.8 per cent). As the GfK report continues, around 60 per cent of garden product sales still continued to be made in the four months from March to June.