Notcutts

Notcutts

Type	Private Limited
Industry	Retail
Founded	Ipswich (1897)
Headquarters	Woodbridge
Products	Furniture Plants Pets Gifts
Employees	Around 1000
Website	Notcutts Garden Centres

Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd. is a private limited company. The family-owned group operate 19 individual garden centres across England, 13 in the south east and 6 in the north west which were formerly part of the NWF Group. Notcutts also owns one of the UK's largest specialist ericaceous nurseries - Waterers - and rose specialists, Mattocks.

Notcutts was founded, in Suffolk, in 1897^[1] and remains a family owned business. Since the store's birth, they have signified the importance of helpful and friendly staff, highlighting the importance of them in a successful business and taking this idea into their own stores. Their first retail garden centre was set up at Woodbridge. Products of Notcutts range from plants to furniture. Most Notcutts stores across England include departments such as Furniture, Planteria, Indoor Plants, Pets and Restaurant area. The Notcutts store also have an indoor shop which sells household products and other gifts.

History

Horticulture on the Woodbridge site dates back to 1749, when Thomas Wood purchased the land and started Woods Nursery and remained in the family for almost 150 years, principally supplying fruit and forestry trees to large country estates and town houses. Ownership eventually came to John Wood who died without succession in 1897 and the nursery was put up for auction. The nursery was bought by Roger Crompton Notcutt, who had outgrown his first nursery site on Broughton Road, Ipswich.

1. ^ http://www.notcutts.co.uk/History/