duluxgroup website www.yates.co.nz yates is a gardening company in new zealand and australia . history edit yates was founded in auckland new zealand by arthur yates in 1883 . in 1887 he opened a branch in sussex st sydney and left his brother ernest in charge of the new zealand store . they came to an agreement to run the stores separately until the 1980s when the two companies joined together again . by 1893 arthur started selling his seed packets for home gardeners . yates began to sell other gardening items apart from seeds and the range soon included fertiliser sprays pots potting mix and tools . in 1895 the yates garden guide was published a basic gardening guide . the guide is still published today after 110 years . 1 yates is now a subsidiary of duluxgroup an australian listed company on the s & p asx 200 . references edit http www.yates.co.nz about history accessed 04 07 09 external links edit yates new zealand yates australia duluxgroup retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title yates company & oldid 737892554 categories companies of new zealandcompanies of australiagardening in australiacompanies established in 18931893 establishments in australiacompanies based in aucklandhorticultural companies of australiahorticultural companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 5 september 2016 at 17 23 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view