FROSTS GARDEN CENTRE LIMITED
Company number 01272637 · Monitor this company
The annual accounts for this company are overdue.
Executive summary
Frosts Garden Centre Limited presents a paradoxical financial position: an exceptionally strong balance sheet with £10.4M cash and £14.5M net assets, yet an operating loss and significant structural change following the disposal of two of its three sites. The primary risk lies not in solvency or liquidity — both comfortably covered — but in the sustainability of a single-site operation that is currently loss-making at the operating level, and in the pattern of substantial dividend extraction by the controlling Frost family during a transitional period. The overdue accounts filing and director changes since the last filed accounts add incremental governance concerns that require clarification.
Shareholders' funds
£14,467,380
Balance sheet as at 2023-07-31
What it does
The principal activity of the company continued
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1976-08-11
- Employees
- 232 (2023 accounts)
- Registered office
- Brambridge Park Garden Centre Kiln Lane, Brambridge, Eastleigh, England, SO50 6HT
- Postcode
- SO50 6HT
- Capital
- 12,834 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 1 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2024-07-31
- Next due by
- 2026-04-30 Overdue
- Financial year end
- 31 July
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-04-17
- Next due by
- 2027-05-01
Nature of business (SIC)
- 47789 Other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (not commercial art galleries and opticians)
Officers 2 current · 27 resigned
Group structure 2 subsidiaries
Controlled by FGC HOLDINGS LTD — since 2018-12-11
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FB GARDEN CENTRE LTD Dissolved
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FMF GARDEN CENTRE LTD Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Gender pay gap
8.59%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2022/23
Among its peers
Top 5%
by shareholders' funds, of 85 similar companies in SO
The largest employer among its local peers (232 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1976.
Competitors Southampton
This company ranks 1 among other retail sale of new goods in specialised stores (not commercial art galleries and opticians) in Southampton.
The class of 1976
51%
of the 7,066 companies incorporated in 1976 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2006-10-31
- Where
- Milton Keynes
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BM317172 | Milton Keynes | Leasehold | 2006-10-31 | — |
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