OTTER NURSERIES LIMITED
Company number 01512823 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Otter Nurseries is a financially robust, vertically integrated family garden retail group whose £17.2M net asset base, £4.7M cash position, and authentic sustainability credentials give it genuine strategic optionality in a consolidating sector. The immediate priorities are clear: execute the generational leadership transition cleanly, build the digital channel management has already identified, and sweat the two underperforming acquisitions. If the next generation of the White family pairs the group's balance-sheet strength with disciplined modernisation, Otter is well positioned to move from resilient regional incumbent to South West category leader.
Shareholders' funds
£17,231,007
Balance sheet as at 2021-01-03
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1980-08-18
- Employees
- 293 (2021 accounts · was 335 in 2019)
- Registered office
- Gosford Road, Ottery St Mary, Devon, EX11 1LZ
- Postcode
- EX11 1LZ
- Capital
- 4 GBP
- Accounts category
- Group
- Charges
- 8 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-28
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2025-11-09
- Next due by
- 2026-11-23
Nature of business (SIC)
- 47190 Other retail sale in non-specialised stores
Officers 5 current · 3 resigned
Group structure 3 subsidiaries
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA278744 (Tier 1), registered since 2017.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Gender pay gap
1.2%
Women's median hourly pay below men's, 2020/21
Contact details
Among its peers
Top 1%
by shareholders' funds, of 137 similar companies in EX
The largest employer among its local peers (293 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1980.
No.1 of the largest other retail sale in non-specialised stores companies in Exeter →
Competitors Exeter
This company ranks 1 among other retail sale in non-specialised stores in Exeter.
The class of 1980
49%
of the 8,850 companies incorporated in 1980 are still active today; 42% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 21 titles
- Freehold
- 21
- Most recent registration
- 2023-02-07
- Price paid, where recorded
- £655,000
- Where
- Devon (18), Somerset (3)
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST161610 | Somerset | Freehold | 2023-02-07 | — |
| WS42310 | Somerset | Freehold | 2021-09-16 | — |
| DN690840 | Devon | Freehold | 2017-11-14 | — |
| DN675000 | Devon | Freehold | 2016-09-01 | — |
| DN672564 | Devon | Freehold | 2016-06-28 | — |
| ST96079 | Somerset | Freehold | 2011-05-31 | £355,000 |
| DN122028 | Devon | Freehold | 2008-02-08 | — |
| DN156223 | Devon | Freehold | 2008-02-08 | — |
| DN236047 | Devon | Freehold | 2008-02-08 | — |
| DN467844 | Devon | Freehold | 2008-02-08 | — |
| DN564639 | Devon | Freehold | 2008-02-08 | — |
| DN114760 | Devon | Freehold | 2006-06-15 | — |
| DN160770 | Devon | Freehold | 2006-06-15 | — |
| DN233590 | Devon | Freehold | 2006-06-15 | — |
| DN278815 | Devon | Freehold | 2006-06-15 | — |
| DN369351 | Devon | Freehold | 2006-06-15 | — |
| DN253617 | Devon | Freehold | 2005-08-02 | — |
| DN129211 | Devon | Freehold | 2005-05-11 | £300,000 |
| DN473849 | Devon | Freehold | 2003-01-06 | — |
| DN460734 | Devon | Freehold | 2002-04-08 | — |
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