DOBBIES GARDEN CENTRES LIMITED
Company number SC010975 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Dobbies Garden Centres stands as a market-leading specialist retailer in the highly fragmented UK garden sector, leveraging significant scale, a heritage brand, and private equity backing to drive national expansion. While the group's size allows for procurement and distribution advantages over independent competitors, it must navigate severe sector headwinds, including weather-dependent footfall, margin compression from input cost inflation, and the leverage constraints typical of private equity ownership. The recent board resignations suggest ongoing strategic realignment as the company optimizes its operational model in a post-pandemic retail environment.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1920-02-18
- Registered office
- Melville Nurseries, Lasswade, Midlothian, Scotland, EH18 1AZ
- Postcode
- EH18 1AZ
- Capital
- 1,703,851 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2026-02-23
- Next due by
- 2027-11-30
- Financial year end
- 28 February
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-06-23
- Next due by
- 2027-07-07
Nature of business (SIC)
- 47789 Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (not commercial art galleries and opticians)
Officers 2 current · 44 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
Controlled by DANATAUGUSTA BIDCO LIMITED — since 2016-07-19
-
JOHNSONS GARDEN CENTRE (BOSTON) LTD. Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Modern slavery statement
Registered a modern slavery statement for 2021 (period to 2021-02-28).
Read the statement summary on the government modern slavery statement registry. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — Z9918197 (Tier 3), registered since 2007.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
0.53%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2025/26 · in the top quarter for parity
Contact details
- Website
- dobbies.com
- Phone
- 03031231113
For 160 years Dobbies has been helping British gardeners to grow. Explore our range of quality plants, garden furniture, tools and more online.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| DOBBIES GARDEN CENTRES PLC | 2011-09-27 |
| DOBBIE & CO. LIMITED | 1997-02-26 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| MELVILLE NURSERIES MELVILLE NURSERIES, LASSWADE, MIDLOTHIAN, EH18 1AZ, SCOTLAND | 2019-08-21 |
| MELVILLE NURSERIES, LASSWADE, MIDLOTHAIN, EH18 1AZ | 2019-08-15 |
Among its peers
The oldest
of 122 similar companies in EH, trading since 1920
Property in England & Wales 46 titles
- Freehold
- 4
- Leasehold
- 42
- Most recent registration
- 2023-06-16
- Price paid, where recorded
- £16,056,977
- Where
- Staffordshire (4), Lincolnshire (3), Norfolk (2)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NK529284 | Norfolk | Leasehold | 2023-06-16 | — |
| GR466884 | Gloucestershire | Leasehold | 2022-08-04 | — |
| LL159235 | Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2022-01-05 | — |
| LL173663 | Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2022-01-05 | — |
| LL211757 | Lincolnshire | Freehold | 2022-01-05 | — |
| MAN262688 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2019-09-19 | £16,725 |
| SL262300 | Shropshire | Leasehold | 2019-09-19 | — |
| CE242589 | Stockton-On-Tees | Leasehold | 2019-07-05 | — |
| BK501375 | West Berkshire | Leasehold | 2019-07-03 | — |
| SGL804968 | Greater London | Leasehold | 2019-07-03 | — |
| DT448544 | Dorset | Leasehold | 2019-07-01 | — |
| ESX177396 | Brighton And Hove | Leasehold | 2019-07-01 | £6,572,672 |
| GR365735 | South Gloucestershire | Leasehold | 2019-07-01 | £244,023 |
| HP834525 | Hampshire | Leasehold | 2019-07-01 | — |
| SL93469 | Wrekin | Leasehold | 2019-07-01 | £973,964 |
| WK485375 | Warwickshire | Leasehold | 2019-07-01 | £840,787 |
| SK394936 | Suffolk | Leasehold | 2019-06-26 | — |
| MAN341345 | Greater Manchester | Leasehold | 2019-06-25 | — |
| WT446152 | Swindon | Leasehold | 2019-06-25 | — |
| DY535117 | Derbyshire | Leasehold | 2019-06-21 | — |
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