A FAMILY owned garden centre business is close to completing an overhaul of its fourth site which is expected to create 10 jobs.
Caulders Garden Centres, founded by husband and wife team Colin and Mandy Barrie in 1999, is revamping the site at Erskine including converting a former self-service restaurant into one with full table service.
It is also introducing new product ranges and bringing in additional horticulturalists.
Caulders took on the lease for the site at the end of last year from the Erskine charity for veterans.
The group expects to complete all the work, including rebranding, in the next few months.
The company received a six-figure funding package from Clydesdale Bank to help it do the project and there are plans to invest in the first site it opened at Mugdock Country Park.
The group, which employs around 140 people and has a turnover of £5 million, has its other locations in Newton Mearns and Kirkintilloch.
Mr Barrie said: "We're still in the process of bringing our new Erskine branch into the Caulders family, but I'm really proud of the fact that our lease will help a great charity and support the local economy by attracting new visitors and creating jobs."
Erskine chief executive Steve Conway said: "I am delighted that Caulders has received the support [it] needed to develop the Garden Centre at Erskine. It has been really interesting to see the transformation into what I hope will prove to be a very successful addition to [its] other centres."
Simon Kerr, from Clydesdale Bank, said: "Caulders is a strong and well managed business. Its aspiration and continued growth represents all that is good about the entrepreneurial spirit of Scottish business."
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