OTTER NURSERIES LIMITED
Company number 01512823 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Otter Nurseries Limited is an active private company with a historically strong balance sheet, positive net assets, and no overdue statutory filings. However, the most recent detailed financial information available dates from January 2021, and recent director resignations create uncertainty about current governance and trading conditions. Further information is required before a definitive investment risk assessment can be completed.
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
- 2027-10-31
- Financial year end
- 31 January
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-11-09
- Next due by
- 2027-11-23
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 138 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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