KINDERGARDEN PLANTS LTD.

🌳Matureactive

02678149 · ltd · incorporated 1992-01-16

Investment thesis

Well-run mature business — low negotiation leverage; premium likely.

Why interesting: Textbook target; clean filings, stable trading.

Why risky: No pressure on seller; any deal likely at full price.

Why now

Window steady · low confidence

Steady and tidy — no seller pressure yet. Approach only if an angle opens.

Opportunity decay

approaching window · 12-months

Approaching a transaction window — refinance or sale event plausible in the next 12 months.

· Oldest live charge 34.2y old — refinance window within 12 months

What changed my view

Last 30 days

No material changes in the last 30 days.

Last 90 days

No snapshot from 90 days ago — start tracking from today.

Last 180 days

No snapshot from 180 days ago — start tracking from today.

🔒Estimated value

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Turnover

—

year to Sept 2025

Net worth

—

book net assets

Opportunity

80/100

Exceptional

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What this business does

Primary activity: SIC 99999

Sector: Extraterritorial bodies

Investor take

Pursue

Active trading company with a 77-year-old founder — textbook succession opportunity.

Opportunity 80/100 (exceptional), bankability 85/100. Strong seller-intent signal (73/100, director aged 77). Share purchase looks the cleaner deal structure. Most likely exit: share sale to pe / searcher (65/100).

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Refinance opportunity

4 live charges · oldest 34.2y

65/100

clean up first

Refinance viable after a tidy-up — address the highlighted items first.

· Oldest live charge is 34.2 years old — likely at or near maturity.
· Single lender — cleanest path to refinance.
· Legal-friction score 28/100 — workable, but lender will want more DD.

Data confidence

Overall: high (87/100)

Strong data coverage across all sections. AI outputs should be trusted with minimal caveats.

Company profile

address, 1 SIC codes, incorporation date

100

Financials

3 years of iXBRL accounts extracted + narrative notes parsed

Lenders & charges

4 charges (4/4 with lender, 4/4 with type)

Directors & officers

27 officers (5 active, 27 linked, 18 with DOB)

Ownership & PSC

1 active PSC(s) of 1 total, 1 with control declared

Director network

6 connected companies via shared directors

Filing history

147 filings on record

Gazette notices

No matching gazette notices (standard for active companies)

Opportunity Score

80/100Exceptional

PassWatchWorth a lookStrongExceptional

Strong composite across quality, acquirability, and risk. High-priority target — progress to serious diligence.

Business quality

Active, clean filings, stable charge profile.

Acquirability

Strong succession / seller-readiness signals.

Risk profile

Few red flags.

Signal strength

100

Good data coverage for analysis.

Key financials

3 years extracted from filed iXBRL accounts

Cash

—

Net Worth

—

Current Assets

—

Current Liabilities

—

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Financials

Extracted from Companies House accounts · FRS 102

Metric	2025-09-30	2024-09-30	2023-09-30
Total assets	—	—	£50.0k
Net assets	—	—	£50.0k
Average employees	0	300	—

Amounts extracted automatically from iXBRL. Fields left blank were not reported or not mapped. Values in GBP unless stated.

🔒Filing-note intelligence

1 signal detected in this company's narrative notes — going-concern language, audit opinion, contingent liabilities, related-party transactions.

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Recent activity

Last 30 days

filings

Last 90 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 officers

Last 180 days

filings

• 1 accounts
• 1 officers

Counts from Companies House filing history.

Corporate timeline (74 events)Click to expand

2026-06-30
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accounts · AA
2026-06-17
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officers · AP01
2026-06-01
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MOORE, Melissa appointed
director
2025-09-04
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officers · AP01
2025-09-04
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officers · TM01
2025-06-04
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accounts · AA
2025-01-01
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ROUSE, Alan John appointed
director
2024-12-31
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BILLINGS, William Todd resigned
director
2024-07-12
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accounts · AA
2024-04-19
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officers · AP03
2024-04-18
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SHEPHERD, Alexander James appointed
secretary
2024-04-18
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DAY, Melanie resigned
secretary
2024-04-18
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officers · TM02
2023-09-20
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BROUGHTON, Suzanne resigned
secretary
2023-09-20
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DAY, Melanie appointed
secretary
2023-09-20
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appoint-person-secretary-company-with-name-date
officers · AP03
2023-09-20
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termination-secretary-company-with-name-termination-date
officers · TM02
2023-06-22
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accounts · AA
2022-06-16
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accounts-with-accounts-type-micro-entity
accounts · AA
2021-06-28
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accounts · AA
2020-06-23
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accounts · AA
2019-06-27
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accounts · AA
2018-06-21
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accounts · AA
2009-07-31
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QUESTE, Yves Leon resigned
director
2009-03-19
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BROUGHTON, Suzanne appointed
secretary
2009-03-19
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KUIPERS, Jacco Martinus Adrianus resigned
secretary
2007-08-01
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QUESTE, Yves Leon appointed
director
2007-07-31
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BERNARDOTTO, Giovanni resigned
director
2006-10-06
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KUIPERS, Jacco Martinus Adrianus appointed
secretary
2006-10-06
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SHEPHERD, Alexander James resigned
secretary
2006-10-06
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BERNARDOTTO, Giovanni appointed
director
2006-10-06
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BILLINGS, William Todd appointed
director
2006-10-06
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LEVENTRY, Anne Hoffman resigned
director
2006-10-06
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RICKETTS, Barrie Lyn resigned
director
2004-04-01
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ROULSTONE, John Arthur resigned
secretary
2004-04-01
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SHEPHERD, Alexander James appointed
secretary
2004-04-01
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ROULSTONE, John Arthur resigned
director
2003-12-05
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WILLIAMS, Sandra Joan resigned
director
2001-12-31
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WHITEHEAD, John Melvyn resigned
director
2001-11-08
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Charge satisfied #4
2001-10-19
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COLEGRAVE, Jeffrey Ashbourne resigned
director
2001-10-16
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GIBSON, John resigned
director
2001-06-05
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BALL, Anna Caroline appointed
director
2001-06-05
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LEVENTRY, Anne Hoffman appointed
director
2001-06-05
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RICKETTS, Barrie Lyn appointed
director
2000-09-01
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SHEPHERD, Alexander James appointed
director
1999-09-14
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COLEGRAVE, Nancy Sutherland resigned
director
1999-09-14
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ROULSTONE, John Arthur appointed
director
1999-09-09
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KING, Brian resigned
director
1999-09-09
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KING, Colin resigned
director

Showing most recent 50 of 74 events

Owner dependency

65/100

High — earn-out structure required

Material founder dependency. Consider a 2-3 year earn-out and build in a handover plan before completion.

FACTORS

-4 active directors: Broader management team in place — suggests transferable governance.
+Long-tenure founder: Senior director has been in place 26 years — deep operational knowledge concentrated in one person.
+Founder age: Director aged approximately 77 — succession pressure is live.

Succession & seller-readiness

80/100

Likely off-market candidate

Strong acquirability signals converging. Worth approaching directly — this is how off-market deals start.

SIGNALS

primaryFounder aged 70+: Senior director is approximately 77 years old. Natural succession window is now.
primary20+ year tenure: Director in role 26 years. Very long tenure is a classic succession signal.
supportingClean filings + long tenure: Disciplined long-tenure operator — classic lifestyle-business pattern that often sells quietly.

Red flags

1 med ·

Charge satisfaction-then-recreation pattern

medium

Multiple instances where a charge was satisfied and a new charge created within 6 months. Suggests active refinancing cycle.

Group structure

Ball Horticultural Company holds 25-50% — a significant corporate investor but not a controlling parent.

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Ball Horticultural Company

Corporate parent · board control

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KINDERGARDEN PLANTS LTD.

This company · 02678149

Parent relationships inferred from Persons with Significant Control filings. Full subsidiary tree requires reverse-lookup (coming).

Shareholders & ownership

1 active beneficial owner

Name	Shares	Voting rights	Nature of control	Notified
Ball Horticultural Company Corporate entity	—	—	board controlboard control	01/06/2016

From Companies House Persons with Significant Control filings. Share ranges are banded per the public PSC regime.

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Company details

Statusactive

Typeltd

Incorporated1992-01-16

Jurisdictionengland-wales

Primary SIC99999 — SIC 99999

Registered office

Milton Road

West Adderbury

Banbury

Oxfordshire

OX17 3EY

Filing status

Accounts

Next due: 2027-06-30

Last made up to: 2025-09-30

Confirmation statement

Next due: 2027-01-15

Last: 2026-01-01