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Caulders buys Loch Lomond Homes & Gardens
Great start to the New Year, reports GTN Bestsellers
Hayes Garden World announce sad passing of Elizabeth Hayes
£1.5million investment in Kelkay's expansion
Planners approve major project at Hillier's Newbury site
Strong pre-season orders for Neudorff says distributor DLF
Perrywood hands over £21k to its charities of the year
‘Orse racin’ returns to GCA conference in aid of Greenfingers
Brimsmore Gardens helps The Hub ‘green up’ for RHS It’s Your Neighbourhood scheme
Survey highlights ‘lonely’ UK as RHS announces garden to encourage nation to make friends through plants at RHS Chelsea Flower Show
Drive to Monte Carlo in an old banger to FUNdraise for Greenfingers
Inspiration for garden centres at IPM Essen
Squire's rewards staff who made a difference
Tulips in Amsterdam...200,000 of them.
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Former Wyevale operations director joins digital commerce firm
Make hay while the sun shines
New Year plant sales are supercharged
Early birds get 28% increase
Change at the top for Wild Bird Care
Johnsons demonstrates green credentials with new compostable plant labels
HTA urges Scottish MPs to vote against scrapping Uniform Business Rates
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Bird food company fined £50k over accident that led to finger amputations
Best year on record for garden centre volume sales
New name for Bord na Mona retail in UK
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£1.5million investment in Kelkay's expansion
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One of the great benefits of AMES UK acquisition of Kelkay has been investment to drive business expansion.The site near Snaith, from where Kelkay's aggregate and paving operations are run, has been expanded by over 20% in preparation for the forecasted increase in garden centre business.

 

AMES UK have demonstrated their confidence in the team and the future growth of the business by funding  a £1.5m investment in warehousing and logistics as well as new packaging machinery, all of which has been installed since August.

Richard Slade, General Manager, said: "It's been an exciting, if challenging, few months. We've undertaken a pretty major reorganisation of the site to double our internal pallet spaces and expand the external space to accommodate more than 12,000 pallets. And while we were making these changes, we've also expanded our operations in Cork to cope with the business growth in Ireland of more than 100%."

Richard, who has been responsible for Kelkay operations for several years is now running the business across all AMES UK sites, including La Hacienda and True Temper. This has also meant further investment in business infrastructure to improve communications through IT and the installation of new servers that allow the whole group to be operated effectively under the new centralised management team.

 

Kelkay base in Snaith WWII airfield.

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