Wilkinson to create 77 jobs with new shop in Kilmarnock

A Home and garden retailer will create 77 jobs when it opens its fifth store in Scotland.

Wilkinson's 19,200 sq ft shop will occupy the former Tesco site in Fowlds Street, Kilmarnock.

It will open on April 21 and will be the 338th store in the Wilkinson portfolio.  It wants to have 500 by 2012.

Its other shops in Scotland are at Clydebank, Motherwell, Irvine and Castle Douglas, Kircudbrightshire.