Name

Stewart Plastics

Website

https://stewartcompany.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1945

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Banbury

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel

Core offering

Stewart Plastics Limited manufactures, sells, and exports technical plastic molded gardening products. The company is based in Banbury, United Kingdom, and has been operating in the horticultural plastics segment since 1945. Its offerings target commercial buyers of molded plastic gardening items for domestic and export markets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Expansion highlights1 record

Direct peers

• Keter Group: Global leader in resin-based outdoor storage, garden furniture, and DIY products. Direct peer because both companies manufacture injection-molded plastic consumer products for the gardening and outdoor-living category, competing for the same retail and private-label customers.
• Curver: European plastic housewares and garden-products manufacturer producing storage boxes, planters, and outdoor organisation items. Direct peer given the shared focus on injection-molded consumer garden and outdoor plastic goods sold through major retail chains.
• Hozelock: UK-based manufacturer of garden watering and watering-system products with significant injection-molded plastic components. Direct peer because of the shared UK manufacturing base and overlapping customer set in the technical garden-products channel.
• Gardman: UK supplier of garden products and accessories including plastic-molded wild bird care, gardening tools, and outdoor decor. Direct peer given the shared UK garden-product focus and reliance on similar retail distribution.
• McLaren Plastics: UK-based custom injection molder serving consumer, horticultural, and industrial markets. Direct peer because of the shared UK injection-molding capability and similar customer profile in garden and consumer plastics.
• Eltex: UK injection molder producing consumer and industrial plastic products. Direct peer given the comparable UK manufacturing footprint and overlap in serving garden and consumer goods customers.
• Apollo Plastics: UK-based plastic injection molding specialist serving consumer-products markets. Direct peer because both firms compete in UK plastic injection molding for consumer end-uses including garden and outdoor applications.

Broad incumbents

• Berry Global: Global plastic packaging and consumer-products manufacturer (post-RPC Group acquisition). Broad incumbent operating at much larger scale across multiple plastic categories; relevant because it competes for garden-product private-label contracts and offers overlapping injection-molding capability.
• Plastipak Holdings: Global plastic container and consumer-products manufacturer with injection-molding operations. Broad incumbent competing in adjacent consumer-plastic segments with similar retail customers in the UK and Europe.
• RPC Group (now part of Berry Global): Former UK-listed rigid plastic packaging group (acquired by Berry Global) historically serving garden, DIY, and consumer markets. Broad incumbent peer as it set the UK benchmark for consumer plastics manufacturing at scale and competes in the same channels.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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