Long-established Cranswick Garden Centre has seen recent investment
Cranswick Garden Centre has been taken over(Image: christie.com)
The sale of Cranswick Garden Centre, a long-established garden centre located near Driffield, has been announced by specialist business property adviser Christie & Co. Set across approximately 4.45 acres, Cranswick Garden Centre combines traditional horticultural retail with a well-developed leisure offer, including glasshouses, a modern retail environment and a popular café-bistro.
Externally the site boasts a newly tarmac-lined 110-space car park. The site has also benefited from recent investment, seeing enhancements made to the retail space, customer facilities and hospitality offer.
The popular #STOVE cafe bistro has 80 indoor covers, with an extended chilled serve-over counter, a functional log burning stove, and a large outdoor seating area.
Former owners, Ray and Carolyn Sharpe, who have owned the business since 2007 and undertaken a programme of improvements in recent years, said: “Cranswick has been a rewarding business to grow, and we’ve invested heavily to bring it to its current standard. We’re pleased to hand it over to a new owner with the energy and ambition to take it further.”
The purchaser, Zak McCombie, is new to the garden centre sector but has acquired the business with a clear strategy to expand, actively seeking further acquisitions as part of a wider growth plan for his business, the McCombie Group. He said: “’Cranswick is a lovely centre that has a great customer base.
“The centre has benefitted from a lot of investment in recent years and we will continue with that over the coming years.”
Andrew Birnie, director, retail and leisure, Christie & Co, managed the sale process. He said: “We are seeing a varied profile of buyers coming into the garden centre market, and this deal is a good example, with a new entrant acquiring a high-quality, profitable business with the intention of growing a broader portfolio. Well-invested centres with strong trading histories and development potential are proving particularly attractive, not just to existing operators but also to investors looking to establish a foothold in the sector.”
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