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a chicken coop and 4 per
cent even said they were
considering keeping pigs.
STAFF PROTEST
These figures, in combina-
AT DIY STORE
tion with a 25 per cent
boost in sales of chicken
Staff at the Irish DIY store
Research done by B&Q has sults show that Jamie and coops over the last year, has
4Home Superstores in Co
revealed that the grow- Jools Oliver have replaced led B&Q to consider expand-
Cork staged a protest over
your-own boom is even Tom and Barbara from hit ing its GYO department by
redundancies after it was
greater than first thought, TV series The Good Life as stocking Pig Arcs, bee hives
announced that the store
with a third of Brits confirm- grow-your-own role models. and goat sheds.
was to close the next day.
ing that they are growing Money saving was top on the Katharine Poulter, B&Q
16 employees took part in
their own fruit and vegeta- agenda for GYO enthusiasts, Director of seasonal com-
the sit-in protest, which
bles this year. The retailer who saved on average a sig- mented: “Our research tells
took place on August 13th
conducted the research in nificant £65. Not only do they us that Brits are ready to get
and lasted more than 24
celebration of National want to continue to grow their hands dirty and take
hours. They had been told
Allotment Week, which took produce, but also nearly 20 the plot to plate revolution
they would only receive
place August 10-16. The re- per cent said they would like one step further with back
statutory redundancy, de-
spite the fact that many
had worked for the compa-
ny for more than 25 years.
DIY DEN FINED
FOR KNIFE SALE
DIY retailer, DIY Den, has
been fined £715 for selling
knife blades to two school-
girls who were taking part
in a council sting opera-
tion. The store, based in
Croydon, was forced to pay
a £350 fine as well as £365
costs by the Croydon
Magistrate’s Court on
August 7th. The sale took
place in March.
ARMED RAID AT
GARDEN CENTRE
Barton Grange Garden
Centre was the scene of an
armed raid in which two
masked men, one armed
with an eight-inch knife
and the other with a ham-
mer, forced their way into
the store. An employee was
tied up and the manager
was held at knifepoint in
the attack that took place
early on Monday August
10th. The men took thou-
sands of pounds in cash and
garden centre vouchers.
The staff members were
left shaken but unhurt.
REPLACEMENT FOR
GRO BUYING GROUP
Movers and shakers
we have significant product advan-
tages, for example weedkillers.”
The replacement for the Clas Ohlson, the Swedish hard-
Garden Centre Association’s Former managing director of ate effect. Commenting on his ware retailer, has signed its fourth
disbanded GRO buying flower company Lingarden, promotion and plans for the fu- store in the UK. The store is to open
group is set to launch this Martin Brown, has collaborated ture, Mr Golding said: “2009 has in Reading in November and will
month. Associated with recruitment expert Steven been a successful year for Bayer cover 20,000 sq ft, selling more
Independent Stores (AIS) Henderson to launch a new busi- Garden; we have seen our initia- than 10,000 products. The opening
will launch Inside Out, a ness of his own, Henderson tives deliver good results. My is part of the Clas Ohlson’s plans to
garden-centre buying Brown. The new company aims to strategy looking forward, there- roll out between four and eight
group, to its 10 members help clients fill a range of posts fore, is simple. We will defend stores in the UK by the close of
on 25-27 August at its from commercial, buying and our position in product categories April 2010. It already has stores in
headquarters in Solihull. technical, to engineering, supply where we are already the market Manchester, Kingston and Croydon.
GRO disbanded after fail- chain, and quality assurance. leader, for example slug killers and Electricals retailer, Best Buy, has
ing to secure the necessary Colin Golding has been con- insecticides. At the same time, we expanded its UK team in prepara-
number of members. firmed as Head of Bayer Garden will concentrate on growing our tion for its UK launch next year.
in the UK and Eire, with immedi- market share in categories where Kevin Styles, former managing di-
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