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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.
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.
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]
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]
This is a list of the largest shopping centres in the United Kingdom, listed by retail size in square metres (m 2). Only centres with space of 65,000 m 2 (700,000 sq ft) or more are listed. Some of these are out-of-town centres, while others are part of a city or town centre shopping district, which in almost all cases also includes many stores ...
The Avonmouth distribution centre has an area of over 1,250,000 sq ft [27] and is the largest single footprint warehouse in the United Kingdom. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] 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]
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.
Blanchardstown Centre – one of the two largest shopping complexes in Ireland [1] [2] Charlestown Shopping Centre; Clarehall Shopping Centre; Donaghmede Shopping Centre; Dundrum Town Centre – one of the two largest shopping complexes in Ireland [3] George's Street Arcade; Ilac Centre; Jervis Shopping Centre; Liffey Valley; Merrion Centre