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Catapult centres are a network of nine organisations set up by Innovate UK in the United Kingdom, to promote research and development (R&D) and to exploit market opportunities. [1] [2] [3] Catapult centres promote R&D and innovation through business-led collaboration between scientists, academics, engineers, entrepreneurs, industry leaders and ...
Category for the UK's catapult centres. Pages in category "Catapult centres" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
British Garden Centres (legally incorporated as Woodthorpe Hall Garden Centres Ltd.), is a British chain of garden centres based in Alford, Lincolnshire, England. [1] By 2022, it operated over sixty locations. [2] [3] It is the UK’s largest garden centre operator by number of sites. [4] [5]
A garden centre (Commonwealth English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business. It is a development from the concept of the retail plant nursery but with a wider range of outdoor products and on-site facilities.
Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd. is a private limited company. The family-owned group operates 19 individual garden centres across England. Notcutts also owns one of the UK's largest rose specialists (Mattocks). Notcutts was founded in Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1897, [1] and remains a family-owned business. Their first retail garden centre was set up ...
Dobbies Garden Centre, Aberdeen. The business was founded in 1865 by James Dobbie, who created a seeds business named Dobbie & Co. in Renfrew, Scotland.After being awarded the Royal Warrant for Gardeners and Nurserymen to the Royal Household, the company expanded into a seed catalogue business, where it built up a customer base of 50,000 over the following century.
Busy Bees Nurseries [1] is the UK's largest nursery group, with over 390 nurseries across England, Scotland and Wales. Busy Bees was founded in 1983 and subsequently acquired nursery chains including, Bush Babies, [ 2 ] Leapfrog, [ 3 ] Kids 1st, [ 4 ] Just Learning, [ 5 ] Kindercare, [ 6 ] Tibbitots [ 7 ] and Caring Day Care.
Hillier Nurseries is a horticultural business which was founded by Edwin Hillier in 1864 as a florist and plant nursery. It expanded as a family business, especially when managed by grandson Harold Hillier , and is now the largest nursery of shrubs and trees in the UK.