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Top 19 Plant genetics and seed companies based in the United Kingdom

RevenueBase identified 46 plant genetics and seed companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 551 professional contacts across them, including 243 with verified work emails. Ely is the largest hub.

This list covers plant genetics and seed companies headquartered in the United Kingdom, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

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The 19 largest plant genetics and seed companies based in the United Kingdom

Ranked by team size
Top 19 of 46 plant genetics and seed companies based in the United Kingdom, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 20, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to plant genetics and seed companies: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceKings Lynn, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-200151 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Germains Seed Technology are committed to delivering industry-leading innovative seed technologies globally, supported by three state-of-the-art Research and Development centres.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
2Partial evidenceSpalding, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20072 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Family-owned and proudly independent for over 180 years, we continue to evolve, working collaboratively with customers, researchers and partners to unlock the power of plants for…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
3Partial evidenceCobham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-20046 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Tozer Seeds is a vegetable breeding company based in the UK, but with sales and product development offices in the UK, Spain, the USA and the Netherlands.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
4Strong evidenceLondon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 2026501-1,00035 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Sumi Agro Europe is specialized in the development and distribution of technically advanced products, including plant protection products, fertilisers, seed and agritech.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
5Partial evidenceNorwich, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5020 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Floranova is a renowned specialist in the breeding & supply of F1 and open pollinated flower seed.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
6Partial evidenceKelvedon, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-5012 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Welcome to Kings Seeds, a leading supplier of vegetable, flower, herbs and Sweet Pea seeds, from the traditional home of the British seed industry, Kelvedon, Essex, who have been…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
7Indirect evidenceLincoln, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-508 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Our mission: We work hard every day to provide high quality products to meet the different agronomic needs of our customers.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
8Partial evidencePeterborough, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202651-2008 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Established in 1952, we are one of the largest independent, family-owned seed businesses in the UK.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
9Indirect evidenceSuffolk, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-506 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Grainseed are suppliers of Maize, Grass, OSR, Sunflowers, Cereals, fodder beet, forage crops, clamp covers, clamp additives and Fertiliser.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
10Partial evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-506 contacts →

Partial evidence

“LS Plant Breeding is the UK-based subsidiary of NPZ, a medium-sized, privately-owned plant breeding company, based in Germany.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
11Partial evidenceStody, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-504 contacts →

Partial evidence

“The Solana Group breeds modern potato varieties, and produces and distributes high-quality seed potatoes.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
12Partial evidenceCambridge, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-103 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Viridian Seeds (VS) is a cutting edge ag-biotech company whose mission is to develop the next-generation of sustainable crops (Super-Crops).”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
13Indirect evidenceSawston, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-102 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
14Partial evidenceUk, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-502 contacts →

Partial evidence

“CROPCO, founded in 2004, is a privately owned supplier of both seed and crop protection products.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
15Partial evidenceSouthampton, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-102 contacts →

Partial evidence

“As exclusive distributor of many market leading varieties of vegetable seed in the UK & Ireland, we are ideally placed to help professional vegetable growers develop and improve…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
16Indirect evidenceDundee, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 202611-501 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“About Us: James Hutton Limited (JHL) is a wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the James Hutton Institute.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
17Indirect evidenceCaterham, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-101 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Transforming Agriculture: Expertise in Crop Health, Crop Protection, & Data Analysis”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
18Partial evidenceBrigg, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-101 contacts →

Partial evidence

“GFP Agriculture strive to provide excellent value for money through high quality seeds and modern seed cleaning facilities, backed up by knowledgeable practical advice on a…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026
19Partial evidenceTruro, United KingdomHQ checked Sep 20, 20261-101 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Horticultural advisory service from seed distribution, crop agronomy and technical management of the product to the multiples.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026

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Plant genetics and seed companies based in the United Kingdom at a glance

As of Sep 20, 2026
44.1%Verified-email coverage
12.0Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
6.5%Largest-city concentration · Ely
Sep 20, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 46 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among plant genetics and seed companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source
The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies
Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “plant genetics and seed companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names plant genetics and seed companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude
Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among plant genetics and seed companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality
In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking
Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification
Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 243 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh
This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections
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Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names plant genetics and seed companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many plant genetics and seed companies are there based in the United Kingdom?

RevenueBase identified 46 plant genetics and seed companies headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

Germains Seed Technology, headquartered in Hardwick Industrial Estate Kings Lynn, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most plant genetics and seed companies?

Ely leads with 3 headquartered companies, followed by Cambridge (2) and Market Rasen (2).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 243 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 46 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.