BOTANICAL HOLDINGS LIMITED
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Next accounts due
2026-09-29 (in 4mo)
Last filed for 2024-12-31
Confirmation statement due
2027-02-10 (in 9mo)
Last made up 2026-01-27
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£149
-99.9% vs 2023
Net assets
£8M
-13% vs 2023
Employees
19
-26.9% vs 2023
Profit before tax
£1M
+414.7% vs 2023
Name history
Renamed 1 time since incorporation
- BOTANICAL HOLDINGS LIMITED 2024-02-14 → present
- BOTANICAL HOLDINGS PLC 2020-01-28 → 2024-02-14
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Industrials median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2024-12-31
| Metric | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £100,331 | £9,183 | |
| Operating profit | -£320,954 | £1,568,399 | |
| Profit before tax | -£350,666 | £1,103,478 | |
| Net profit | -£1,790,121 | -£43,404 | |
| Cash | £152,765 | £149 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £8,895,909 | £7,741,825 | |
| Net assets | £8,895,909 | £7,741,825 | |
| Equity | £8,895,909 | £7,741,825 | |
| Average employees | 26 | 19 | |
| Wages | £33,181 | £242,670 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | -319.9% | 17079.4% | |
| Net margin | -1784.2% | -472.7% | |
| Return on capital employed | -3.6% | 20.3% | |
| Gearing (liabilities / total assets) | 33.3% | 28.1% | |
| Current ratio | 0.09x | 0.78x | |
| Interest cover | -10.80x | 3.37x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- IFRS
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated group
- Auditor
- Sumer Auditco Limited
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2024 have been prepared on the basis that the consolidated entity is a going concern and therefore, contemplates the continuity of normal business activity, realisation of assets and settlement of liabilities in the normal course of business.”
Group structure
- BOTANICAL HOLDINGS LIMITED · parent
- Botanical Investments Ltd 100%
- Eurocan Pty Ltd 100%
Significant events
- “on 21 June 2024 the Group's entered into an agreement to sell its Lesotho assets to Olive Trees (Pty) Limited for £1,371,000 (payable over three years)”
- “in July 2024, the Company issued convertible loan notes to a small group of shareholders in a principal amount of €250,000 (for cash and - in part - to settle debts), in order to provide the Company with additional bridge financing to enable more time to execute sales of the Group's assets”
- “on 4 December 2024 a binding agreement was entered into to sell a 40% stake in the Group's Portuguese subsidiary for €8m with the purchaser being granted a two year option to purchase the remaining 60% and providing "downside protection" to the Group in the event the option is not exercised.”
- “Since the balance sheet date the Group has repaid the convertible loan notes in cash or converted them into equity on 21st February 2025.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 7 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O'CONNOR, Christopher | Secretary | 2020-01-28 | — | — |
| ESPREY, Carl James | Director | 2020-01-28 | Apr 1979 | Italian |
| SILVA, Herculano | Director | 2023-12-01 | Aug 1976 | Portuguese |
Show 7 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ALEN-BUCKLEY, Michael Ulic Anthony | Director | 2021-05-05 | 2023-11-30 |
| FAGUNDES, Miguel Fernandes | Director | 2023-01-01 | 2023-11-30 |
| HILL, David Warham | Director | 2020-07-14 | 2022-11-02 |
| O'CONNOR, Christopher Nicholas | Director | 2020-01-28 | 2023-11-30 |
| ROODYN, Uriel | Director | 2021-05-05 | 2023-11-30 |
| SKAANILD, Hannah Mary | Director | 2023-12-01 | 2025-09-09 |
| TEIXEIRA, José Manuel | Director | 2023-01-01 | 2023-11-30 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mr Carl James Esprey | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2020-01-28 | Ceased 2020-07-01 |
| Mr Christopher Nicholas O'Connor | Individual | Shares 25–50%, Voting 25–50% | 2020-01-28 | Ceased 2020-07-01 |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 71 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-02-14 CERT10 Certificate re registration public limited company to private
- 2024-02-14 RESOLUTIONS Resolution
- 2024-02-14 RR02 Reregistration public to private company
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-11 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-12-30 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2025-09-15 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-02-21 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2025-01-30 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2025-01-06 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type group | |
| 2024-09-23 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2024-06-26 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2024-02-23 | SH01 | capital | Capital allotment shares | |
| 2024-02-14 | CERT10 | change-of-name | Certificate re registration public limited company to private | |
| 2024-02-14 | MAR | incorporation | Re registration memorandum articles | |
| 2024-02-14 | RESOLUTIONS | resolution | Resolution | |
| 2024-02-14 | RR02 | change-of-name | Reregistration public to private company | |
| 2024-02-12 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with updates | |
| 2023-12-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-04 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2023-12-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2023-12-04 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 3
- Capital events
- 1
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 1
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2023 → FY2024 · period ending 2024-12-31 vs 2023-12-31
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Turnover
-90.8%
£100,331 £9,183
-
Cash
-99.9%
£152,765 £149
-
Net assets
-13%
£8,895,909 £7,741,825
-
Employees
-26.9%
26 19
-
Operating profit
+588.7%
-£320,954 £1,568,399
-
Profit before tax
+414.7%
-£350,666 £1,103,478
-
Wages
+631.4%
£33,181 £242,670
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers