Yorkshire garden centre group adds a seventh site to the family
A Bradford-based Yorkshire Garden Centres Group with a site in York has announced it will operate a further site in West Yorkshire.
The former Dobbies Garden Centre Pennine in Huddersfieldwill join the YGC Partners business, which also acquired the Deans Garden Centres in York and Scarborough earlier this year.
Mark Farnsworth, MD of Yorkshire Garden Centres said: "We are delighted to add Pennine Garden Centre to the group. The site is well known to many of our team who used to work there when it was owned by the Armitage family. Our team are excited about returning to the centre, and we hope we can revitalise the business in the coming months. We are delighted to welcome some of the Dobbies team into the business, and we look forward to them playing their part in the refurbishment over the next few weeks. We intend to reopen the store in the early spring."
YGC Partners, a partnership with Altia Ltd, will reopen the four-acre site, previously run by the Armitage family, who sold it to Wyevale and subsequently Dobbies, following a period of refurbishment. 17 members of the Dobbies team will join the business.
Yorkshire Garden Centres began with the acquisition of Tong Garden Centre by Mark Farnsworth and Tom Megginson in 2015. They invested £9m and have turned Tong into one of Yorkshire's leading garden centres. The Group's strategy is to operate destination garden centres with a compelling mix of retail, food and play for all the family. It now operates sites at Tong, Tingley, Otley, Bingley, York and Scarborough.
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