Chris Thorner has retired from managing Groves’ pet shop after 21 years.  Chris started with C. W. Groves and Son back in 1991 as the nursery’s delivery driver.  A few years later he took over the running of the pet shop when Mike House retired from Groves.   Ever since then Chris has build the pet shop up to be a vital part of the garden centre’s business, becoming especially important this year with the lack of warm gardening weather!

Groves Nurseries Manager Charlie Groves said “Chris has made a great success of the pet shop due to good old fashioned values, customer service and great business sense.  He would never turn a customer away, it we didn’t stock it he would get it in”.

Groves’ pet offering will continue to be a strong as ever into the future as the running of the pet shop will now be taken over by Chris’ daughter Jo.