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Rosebourne opens with "double budget" performance
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Rosebourne opens with "double budget" performance


Rosebourne, the only new build garden centre to open this year, near Andover on the A303 opened this week and by Saturday was reporting "double the budget" takings in many departments including the restaurant.

Directors Jon Kitchen and Salim Sajid (above) told GTN Xtra: "We've had a tremendous response from customers and performance to date is double the budget.  That means the staff have had to work tremedously hard, not just in new surroundings but with much greather than expected numbers of customers.  We will be adding to the size of the team as soon as we can."

With the people behind the project coming from Beckworth Emporium in Northamptonshire and a number of the old Garden & Leisure senior team it's no surprise to see many of the good things from Beckworth - the food retalling, waitress served restaurant and gifts, added to the renowned garden centre merchandising from the old Garden & Leisure stores and of course a story book Christmas.  A million reasons to believe!

General Manager Val Kempster said "It is great to be open and really busy.  The staff have been fantastic and it is wonderful to see so many smiling faces."



Managing Director Neville Priest added: "Our social media and local radio advertising has worked very well in getting high numbers of customers to drive here for the first few days.  We've even had people travelling on their way to the West Country stop off and come in for a coffee and buy from the centre.  In the coming weeks we will add a range of take away sandwiches, cakes and drinks to cater for passing travellers."

See our GTN Xtra picture tour of the new centre below
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