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. 

Wyevale Garden Centres has announced ‘Plan Apple’ – its first action in the company’s programme to address the key environmental issues facing the garden industry. 

Orton Grange site forms part of expansion plans for 2008. 

Shoppers could be down 5.2% on Easter 2007, it warns. 

Group says growth is well into its second phase. 

Retailer continues to build up Eco Home.