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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]
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.
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]
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.
The Avonmouth distribution centre has an area of over 1,250,000 sq ft [26] and is the largest single footprint warehouse in the United Kingdom. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] In Spring 2024, The Range will open a brand new distribution centre in Stowmarket , Suffolk, just off the A14 trunk road, with 1,170,000 sq ft of space for goods. [1]
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.
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The border created by Sir Harold Hillier in 1964 to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the business.. Hillier Nurseries is a horticultural business which was founded by Edwin Hillier in 1864 as a florist and plant nursery.