Hillier & Sons

Sectors:

  • Distribution - retailing Gardening products, etc, retailing
  • Agriculture & fishing Horticulture, nursery & market gardening
  • Distribution - retailing Mail order & catalogue retailing

Notes:

Traces origins to 1864 when Edwin Hillier, d1926, acquired a nursery at Winchester and, shortly afterwards, a retail shop where he sold floral displays. Business soon focused on growing hardy plants and on providing floral display, gardening and landscaping services. Early on started plant breeding. Royal warrant holders from 1935. Business developed especially under (Sir) Harold Hillier, d1985, into tree growing and mail order (until 1990s). Opened a chain of garden centres from 1960s. Continues in 2014

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