Matthew Thorne

Finance Director at Double H Nurseries Ltd

Matthew Thorne currently serves as a Trustee at Elevate Foundation, a position held since January 2023. In addition, Matthew has been with Double H Nurseries Ltd since October 2017, where roles have included Finance Director, Head of Business Partnering, and Head of Finance. Prior experience includes serving as Finance Manager at Hillbrush from October 2010 to October 2017, and as Audit Senior at Smith & Williamson from February 2003 to June 2010.

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New Milton, United Kingdom

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Double H Nurseries Ltd

Double H Nurseries Ltd is the largest indoor potted plant grower in the UK. We grow Orchids, Chrysanthemums and foliage plants that bring happiness to thousands of consumers each week. We are an award winning, environmentally aware business with over 250 employees based in New Milton, Hampshire. Using established lean manufacturing principles and innovative growing technology we are the UK’s largest producer of indoor ornamental pot plants and supply over 8 million plants to major retailers across the country. We are extremely proud to have been credited with Investors in People 'Gold'. We grow Orchids, Chrysanthemums and Roses to supply major supermarkets with products that bring happiness to thousands of consumers each week. We combine our plant growing expertise with an in-house creative capability to design and develop packaging for great value, fashionable products which we then assembly and dispatch through our fast moving, efficient packing facilities. Double H is a family run business operating for over 50 years and we have seen our sales turnover double to £24 million in the last 5 years. We continue to achieve sales growth and currently grow and deliver over 4.5 million house plants to UK supermarkets each year. We have invested heavily in the most modern plant production facilities in the UK, and are leading the industry with innovative, sustainable and efficient manufacturing practices. Our vision and values run through our ‘family’ business, they are what bind us together, strengthens us as a business and enables us to achieve far more together as a team. Double H is proud to be a British plant grower.