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In the same month, Dobbies purchased 37 Wyevale locations, doubling their reach and becoming the largest garden centre company in the UK. On 10 September 2019, the business announced the sale of its remaining centres to British Garden Centres, leading to the closure of the historic Wyevale Garden Centres brand. [17]
Entrance to Bridgemere Garden World. The largest garden centre in the UK is Bridgemere Garden Centre (Blue Diamond Garden Centres), which is located in Nantwich, Cheshire. It covers an area of 50 acres and has over 1 million visitors each year. The largest UK garden centre chains include:
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]
Bents Garden & Home. Bents is a garden, home and leisure destination in Glazebury, Warrington, England, that attracts over a million visitors annually.Established in 1937 by Alfred and Margaret Bent, it remains a family-owned and family-operated business and has evolved into one of the UK's biggest garden centres.
Dobbies Garden Centre, Lasswade. Dobbies now operates 57 garden centres and restaurants across the UK. In May 2019, Dobbies bought 37 stores from Wyevale Garden Centres, doubling its reach and for a period was the biggest garden centre chain in the UK by both number of stores and turnover. [18] [19]
During the 1990s QD Stores purchased the small department store Lathams of Potter Heigham, which it still operates under the original name. It also established Cherry Lane Garden Centres in 2001, [5] which by 2008 had become the eighth biggest UK gardening centre group. [6] The number of QD Stores locations has grown relatively slowly since 1985.
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New Covent Garden Market It covers a site of 57 acres (23 ha) and is home to about 200 fruit, vegetable and flower companies. The market serves 40% of the fruit and vegetables eaten outside of the home in London, [ 1 ] and provides ingredients to many of London's restaurants, hotels, schools, prisons, hospitals and catering businesses.