Gardening products supplier William Sinclair said its results will be even worse than previously warned, thanks to the UK's soggy summer.
"The very poor harvest and suppressed consumer activity experienced in the last few weeks will increase the negative impact on the company's 2012 financial performance in addition to that reported previously with the result that the company will miss market expectations for the year ended September 30th, 2012," the company said.
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