Customers praise new £15m centre. 

Wyevale-owned Sanders GardenWorld unveiled its plans for a proposed extension at an open evening for members of the public recently (March 25). 

Alfresco eating as popular as ever despite wettest summer for 250 years. 

Cheshire announces management changes as consumer uncertainties hit full-year profits. 

Economic backdrop makes for a tough consumer market, warns the chief executive. 

Owners look to make savings. 

Dorset retailer wins free stock in prize draw. 

After ten and a half years KSD Wholesale has been forced to shut the door, writes Stuart Dick.
 

Wyevale Garden Centres has teamed up with WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) to offer free advice and tips to visitors at a selection of its garden centres nationwide during April and May. 

It’s not every day that you get a member of the Royle family opening a garden centre in Maghull and yet on Good Friday that’s exactly what happened. 

Kingfisher is expected to cut its dividend by up to 50%. 

Garden centre needs are already being met says chairman. 

Robert Dyas ceo to lead US retailer's expansion in China. 

Retailers from John Lewis, Selfridges and Cargo to independent cookshops, hardware stores, wholesalers and garden centre buyers will hear the industry's leading lights make their predictions and share their knowledge and advice at the first ever Housewares Conference - are you? 

'Early next week,' a spokesperson says. 

With an early Easter, March and April together should give a clearer picture of underlying demand levels, say retail analysts. 

The Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) has introduced a Bill in the House of Lords to amend the Sunday Trading Act 1994 and extend the hours garden centres can trade on Sunday. 

Celebrity gardener, Charlie Dimmock, will makeover nation’s worst beer gardens with Eco woodcare. 

The eight days of Easter 2008 are expected to be worth £8 billion to UK retailers, up 3% on last year. 

Wyevale will present an exclusive Easy Gardener collection to consumers at the end of March.