Winner in the Goole & Howdenshire Business Excellence Awards 2019
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The California Lodge Garden Centre has recently been taken over and has had a re-vamp! The garden centre is now open and is the perfect trip out on a sunny day to get all your essential for your garden or if you fancy a coffee and bite to eat at The Olive Tree coffee shop Our Goole had a chat with owner Cameron Holroyd to find out more about the garden centre and what the plans are for the future. When did you buy the garden centre? We purchased the garden centre business at the start of this year. What made you buy? We bought the business as we could see great potential. It is positioned in a great spot with lots of passing traffic and is ideally placed with good car parking facilities. What challenges have you faced? We have had to replace the roofing, redecorate the coffee shop and restaurant along with
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new furniture etc. We have also rebranded the business, increased the stock holding tenfold, given it a full spruce-up and general clean of all areas of the business. What can people expect when they visit? New stock lines have been bought in. People can expect to be greeted by pleasant, knowledgeable staff and a garden centre that is easy to walk round and find things that they want. It is well sign posted and well stocked. What is your proudest achievement? Our proudest achievement is getting the business back up and running in a short space of time and recruiting more staff from the local
