Kilquade Garden Centres Wins Rosette

The Doyle clan

he Doyle family will be flinging bouquets at one another this morning after they picked up a major retail gong.

Last night, their ridiculously-named Arboretum (it means a botanical garden dedicated to trees) picked up National Retailer Of The Year.

The occasion was the Retail Excellence awards in the big city, with the Doyle clan’s garden centre franchise (they’re two-timing us with another outlet in Carlow) bagging the big prize of the night, ‘the stand-out award presented each year in recognition of an exceptional retail business‘.

Arboretum began on a ten-acre site in Leighlinbridge in Co Carlow, boasting a kitchen store, a garden café, home and gift area, furniture area, fashion area (huh?) and a qualified team of plant experts, all under one roof. 

In 2015, the Doyles opened their second outlet, in sunny Kilquade, based on the site of the National Garden Exhibition Centre. 

Fergal Doyle said of the National Retailer Of The Year win, “We are thrilled with this award, and we regard it as a wonderful acknowledgement of the hard work and dedication which our team of over 130 people have shown over the past two years.

“It has been an incredibly difficult period between the pandemic, the various lockdowns and the challenges that people are facing every day of the week, but our team has kept going throughout everything…

“And they are the reason we have won this award.”

You can find out more about the Arboretum gang right about here.