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Wyevale Sale Summary: Who Owns Which Centre?
Following the news that Wyevale has sold its last remaining garden centres, GardenForum has compiled a list of the 145 centres, their new owners and the combined asking price, where available.
British Garden Centres has taken 37 Wyevale sites with a combined asking price of £39m. Two additional sites, Enfield and Windsor, that will be run on behalf of developers who have bought the sites.
Dobbies has acquired 37 with a combined asking price of £231m.
Blue Diamond has acquired 16 with an asking price of £50m.
Ten have been sold to developers including the two to be operated by British Garden Centres.
Five have been sold to Hillier and four to In Excess.
Three, including Elm Court, are being returned to the Landlord.
Blackbrooks, Cherry Lane, Maidenhead Aquatics and Otter have bought two centres each.
Here is a full list of the purchasers and the sites they will have acquired once all transactions are complete:
AWBS - Oxford
Blackbrooks – Hastings; Lower Dicker GC
Blue Diamond – Bicester; Bridgemere; Cadbury; Canterbury Chartham; Cardiff; Endsleigh; Hereford; Lower Morden; Melbicks; Percy Throwers; Rake; Sander's at Brent Knoll; Tunbridge Wells; Waterside, Nailsworth; Weybridge, Crockford Bridge; Worcester
British Garden Centres – Albrighton; Birchencliffe; Blooms of B; Bold Heath; Bolton; Bournville; Braintree; Brockworth; Carmarthen; Carr Gate; Chilton; Chipperfield; Coventry; Crawley; Gardenlands; Harrow; Hemel Hempstead; Hitchin; Horncastle Lincolnshire; Lewes; Leyland; Louth; Ongar; Osterley; Paddock Wood; Playhatch; Pulborough; Ramsgate; Sprowston; Stanway; Stevenage; Tarporley; Tring; Upminster; Wimborne; Winnersh; Wolseley Bridge
British GC / Developer - Enfield
British GC / Wates - Windsor
Capital Gardens - Sherfield on Lodden
Cherry Lane - Barnet Hill; Podington
Cobbins Nursery - Worthing Ferring
Coolings Garden Centres - Wych Cross
Developer – Aldridge; Binfield; Chichester; Codicote; Keynsham; Seven Hills; Shirley; WOPAL / Timperley
Dobbies – Altrincham; Andover; Beaconsfield; Blooms Rugby; Brighton; Bury St Edmunds; Cadnam; Findern; Galton; Gloucester; Gosforth; Hare Hatch; Harlestone Heath; Havant; Heighley Gate; Hungerford; Huntingdon; Keston; Lelant; Marple; Moreton Park; Northampton; Pennine; Peter Barratt's; Poppleton; Rowena; Royston Hertfordshire; Shenstone; Stratford-Upon-Avon; Swansea; Swindon; Telford Shropshire; Thornbury; Woodbridge Suffolk; Woodcote Green; Woodlands; World's End, Aylesbury
English Salvage - Hereford
Grovewell - Ham Street
Higgins Landscape and GC - Wellingborough
Hillier – Cheddar; Dorking; John Brown GC; Lechlade; Marlow
Homeleigh - Bude
In Excess – Fairoak; Ferndown; Salisbury; Salisbury
Kings Garden & Leisure - Sidmouth
Longacres – Springfield
Maidenhead Acquatics – Par; Dummer GC
Martin Davies - Raglan GC
MBO - Findon
Original landlord - Purley Way; Swindon Hay Lane
Otter - Jack's Patch; Taunton
Perrywood Garden Centre - Sudbury
Rochmills Group - Woburn Sands
Rosebourne - Hampton in Arden
Squires - Heathlands
St John's Barnstaple - Ashford
Tates - Old Barn
The Plant Area Limited - Woking
To original landlord - Elm Court
Unsold - To close - Rayleigh
Unsold - To close April 28 - Crowland
Unsold - to close end Sept - Thatcham
Unsold - to close Sep 19 - Potters Bar
Unsold - to close Sep 19 – Syon
Webbs - Blooms Cheltenham
Source : Reproduced with permission from George Bullivant at GardenForum
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