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Their timing was perfect because the gardening business in the UK was undergoing a transformation. Selling containerised plants, an idea copied from the Americans, was taking off and the Van Hage garden centre exploited this to the full. The next development came in 1996 when Van Hage bought a smaller garden centre in Chenies. In 2010 the latest Van Hage garden centre was opened in Peterborough on the Peterborough Garden Park shopping complex. Initially this was a disaster because the traffic jams caused by the opening of the complex affected the customer numbers at the Van Hage Garden Centre. Memories are short however and the Peterborough branch of Van Hage has turned out to be a crowd puller once more. All three Van Hage Garden Centres are listed below with links to our impartial reviews of the plants, the cafes and the other facilities offered by each Van Hage garden centre.
LATEST VAN HAGE NEWS Cut backs, and serious ones, are also being implemented immediately. For starters, the floristry departments at both of its garden centres are to close. Other cut backs are also in the pipeline. After a good April, almost all garden centres have reported bad results for May and June. Van Hage are the first of the larger garden centres to report such a dramatic reaction to the downturn of the last two months. Financially, matters were already going downhill in 2010 with losses of £451,000, Results for 2011 looks like providing even larger losses. |
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