Categories Dressing

[Berserker]

You could add that as a heading for one of the links at the bottom of the sidebox, styled to look like another link.
Alternatively, you could edit tpl_categories.php and put the link code there to get it at the very bottom of the sidebox.

Apart from hard-coding it in the tpl_categories.php, is there other way to have a group of links (around 10 manufacturer links) to show as a category sidebox without creating the folders in admin?

Thanks