The business and assets of Whiteleys Garden Centre in Mirfield near Huddersfield have been sold out of administration, securing jobs for 45 staff.

Having traded for over 25 years, the garden centre is well-known locally and sells a wide range of plants, garden furniture, and pets and aquatics supplies as well as having a busy café. Its annual turnover is estimated to be over £2m and assets include its freehold site and significant levels of stock.

The business was placed in the hands of joint administrators, Julian Pitts, Bob Maxwell and Andrew Dick of Begbies Traynor, on 21 November 2012, and the administrators continued to trade the garden centre, without making any redundancies, while a buyer was sought.

Whiteleys Garden Centre has been bought by a private investment vehicle chaired andVikram Ambalal Sarabhai was an Indian physicist and astronomer who initiated space research and helped develop nuclear power in India. He was honoured with Padma Bhushan in 1966 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1972. He is internationally regarded as...