AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED

Shareholders of AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED

One shareholder is disclosed, and the disclosure is complete. The New Zealand Companies Register’s shareholdings record for company 14190 shows total share capital of 300,000 shares held in a single allocation of 300,000 shares, equal to 100.00%, in the name of THE COLONIAL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED — a New Zealand company, company number 1193, NZBN 9429040973531, status Registered, registered office Level 6, 57 Courtenay Place, Te Aro, Wellington 6011. The allocation has one holder, so no joint-holding apportionment arises and the 100% figure is the register’s own arithmetic rather than a derived one. The interest is direct and the shares are ordinary shares. The register separately carries an "Ultimate holding company" field naming the same company, supported by a Particulars of ultimate holding company notice filed on 2 March 2016. The holding is independently corroborated by The Colonial Motor Company Limited’s 108th annual report for the year ended 30 June 2026, which lists Avon City Motors Ltd among its trading subsidiaries and states that all subsidiaries are 100% owned, with the single exception of Southpac Trucks Limited at 85%. The register record was last updated on 5 March 2026 with that year’s annual return.

Ultimate beneficial ownership

No single natural person can be identified as an ultimate beneficial owner of AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED on the evidence available, and the filings support saying so positively rather than for want of data. The sole shareholder is itself listed on the NZX Main Board, and its share register is widely held. Its 108th annual report discloses substantial product holders under section 293 of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 as at 30 June 2026, against 32,694,632 ordinary shares in issue. The largest individually disclosed position is P L Bennett with 2,427,432 shares, 7.42%, by notice dated 14 November 2025. The next largest disclosures are joint positions: S B & A D Gibbons with L B Rogerson at 1,868,554 shares, 5.71%, and R H & S J Wilson with S H Majors at 1,795,081 shares, 5.49%.

Because the parent holds 100% of AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED, each parent-level percentage passes through unchanged. P L Bennett’s 7.42% of the parent therefore corresponds to a calculated effective indirect interest of 7.42% in AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED — well below the 25% level ordinarily used as a beneficial-ownership threshold. The same annual report states that individual descendants of Hopeful and Jessie Gibbons collectively hold over 60% of the parent’s issued shares, but it does not break that figure down by person, and a dispersed family grouping is not a single beneficial owner. No filing reviewed identifies any person as exercising effective control of AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED.

Data availability

Direct shareholder disclosure for New Zealand is Full: the register publishes every shareholder, the share allocation and the percentage, and does so free of charge. Beneficial-ownership disclosure is Partial at the parent level only — New Zealand operates no public beneficial ownership register, so the only person-level ownership data available is the substantial product holder regime of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013, which reports holdings of 5% or more in a listed issuer and does not cover holdings below that threshold.

The stored provider shareholder record for this company is accurate and reconciles exactly with the register: one row, total_results of 1, quantity 300,000, 100%, share type ORDINARY, typed Company. That is unusual and is noted here because it is the exception rather than the rule.

Sources

• New Zealand Companies Register — AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED (14190) shareholdings. https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/14190/shareholdings — register record last updated 5 March 2026; retrieved 28 September 2026.
• New Zealand Companies Register — AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED (14190) company summary, showing the ultimate holding company field. https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/14190 — retrieved 28 September 2026.
• New Zealand Companies Register — THE COLONIAL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED (1193) company summary. https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/1193 — register record last updated 6 March 2026; retrieved 28 September 2026.
• The Colonial Motor Company Limited, 108th Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2026, subsidiaries note and substantial product holder disclosures. https://www.colmotor.co.nz/i/files/financialreports/TheColonialMotorCompanyLimited2026AnnualReport.pdf — audit report dated 15 September 2026; retrieved 28 September 2026.

Directors and officers of AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED

The New Zealand Companies Register records two current directors and eight former directors for company 14190. The current directors are Alexander Peter Gibbons, appointed 1 October 2021, and Stuart Barnes Gibbons, appointed 6 November 2021. Both hold the single statutory role the register recognises for a New Zealand limited company, Director. The Companies Act 1993 does not require a company secretary and the register records none, so there is no company secretary to report. Under section 10 of the Act a New Zealand company must have at least one director who lives in New Zealand or in an enforcement country; the register holds a New Zealand residential address for each of the two current directors, and those addresses are not reproduced here.

The New Zealand register publishes no nationality field and no date of birth for directors, so nationality is Not disclosed for every person named in this block and must not be inferred from a name or an address. The register likewise holds no occupation field, so no occupation is stated. Each appointment is supported by a signed director consent form on the register. The underlying record was last updated on 5 March 2026 and was retrieved on 28 September 2026.

The Colonial Motor Company Limited’s 108th annual report, for the year ended 30 June 2026, separately names Alexander P Gibbons as the group’s Chief Executive and Stuart B Gibbons and Graeme D Gibbons as directors of that listed company. Those are appointments in a different legal entity and are not directorships of AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED. The same report names Richard Burns as Dealer Principal for Avon City Motors Ltd; that is an operational management role and he is not a registered director of the company.

Recent officer changes

• Alexander Peter Gibbons — appointed Director, effective 1 October 2021. Particulars of Director filed 6 October 2021, with a director consent form of the same date. Source: New Zealand Companies Register, directors and documents tabs for company 14190.
• James Picot Gibbons — ceased as Director, effective 5 November 2021 (appointed 23 February 2011). Particulars of Director filed 8 November 2021. Source: as above.
• Stuart Barnes Gibbons — appointed Director, effective 6 November 2021. Particulars of Director filed 8 November 2021, with a director consent form of the same date. Source: as above.

A fourth change in the same period: Graeme Durrad Gibbons ceased as a director on 30 September 2021, having been recorded as appointed on 20 March 1991. The register cautions that appointment dates before February 1993 may record when the entry was loaded onto the database rather than the true appointment date, so that 1991 date should be read as a database date.

Data availability

Officer information for New Zealand is Full: the register publishes current and former directors with appointment and cessation dates, the consent form for each appointment, and a full history back to the company’s re-registration under the 1993 Act. It does not publish nationality, date of birth, occupation, or any role other than Director for an ordinary limited company, so those fields are unavailable rather than absent.

Two defects in the stored provider officer data for this company should be noted. First, it holds 12 rows where the register holds 10 people: "Alexander Gibbons" and "Alexander Peter Gibbons" are one person, as are "Stuart Gibbons" and "Stuart Barnes Gibbons", each pair sharing a single appointment date. Second, and more materially, it marks James Picot Gibbons and Graeme Durrad Gibbons as ACTIVE with no cessation date, when the register records both as having ceased in 2021 — so the stored data overstates the current board at six directors against the register’s two. The stored rows also carry directors’ residential addresses, which are not published here.

Sources

• New Zealand Companies Register — AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED (14190) directors, current and former, with appointment and cessation dates. https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/14190/directors — register record last updated 5 March 2026; retrieved 28 September 2026.
• New Zealand Companies Register — AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED (14190) documents index, showing Particulars of Director and Director Consent filings. https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/14190/documents — retrieved 28 September 2026.
• The Colonial Motor Company Limited, 108th Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2026, board and dealership listings. https://www.colmotor.co.nz/i/files/financialreports/TheColonialMotorCompanyLimited2026AnnualReport.pdf — audit report dated 15 September 2026; retrieved 28 September 2026.

Group structure of AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED

AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED is not independent. It is a wholly owned member of the New Zealand group headed by THE COLONIAL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED, a company listed on the NZX Main Board. The relationship is established twice over from primary sources: the New Zealand Companies Register’s shareholdings record shows the whole 300,000-share allocation held by that company, and the register’s separate "Ultimate holding company" field names it explicitly, filed by Particulars of ultimate holding company on 2 March 2016. The parent’s own register record answers "No" to the same question, so it is both the immediate and the ultimate parent — the chain is one step long, with no intermediate holding company.

No subsidiary of AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED is disclosed anywhere. The parent’s 108th annual report, for the year ended 30 June 2026, attributes ownership of every group company to the parent itself and records all subsidiaries as 100% owned other than Southpac Trucks Limited at 85%. It lists 35 subsidiaries in total — 21 trading and 14 non-trading — of which AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED is one, leaving 34 sister companies. The report states that all group companies are registered in New Zealand, so the group structure is single-jurisdiction. Group information is current to 30 June 2026 for the annual report and 5 March 2026 for the register.

Verified corporate relationships

No subsidiary, associate, joint venture or branch of AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED is recorded in any source reviewed.

Recent structural changes

The parent’s 108th annual report discloses two subsidiary renamings within the group: Adventure Motor Group Ltd was formerly Trucks South Ltd, and Auto Clearance NZ Ltd was formerly Centennial Motors Ltd. Neither affects AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED, and no acquisition, disposal, merger or reorganisation touching this company is recorded in the register’s document index, which since 2016 shows only annual returns and director filings.

Data availability

Corporate-linkage information for New Zealand is Full for this company: the register publishes the direct shareholder, the share allocation and the ultimate holding company, and the parent, being NZX-listed, publishes an audited subsidiary list with ownership percentages. There is no material gap to report at either level.

One defect in the stored provider data should be recorded. The gd_groups tree holds 37 nodes: the parent at the root and 36 companies attached beneath it, including AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED itself. Those 36 are sister companies of this company, not its subsidiaries — a tree rendered as a hierarchy below the subject would misstate them. Checked name by name against the parent’s audited subsidiaries note, 35 of the 36 match exactly and one does not: CMC Workplace Savings Scheme Trustee Limited appears in the provider tree but in neither the trading nor the non-trading subsidiary list of the FY2026 annual report, so its status is not verified here.

Sources

• New Zealand Companies Register — AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED (14190) company summary, including the ultimate holding company field. https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/14190 — register record last updated 5 March 2026; retrieved 28 September 2026.
• New Zealand Companies Register — AVON CITY MOTORS LIMITED (14190) shareholdings. https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/14190/shareholdings — retrieved 28 September 2026.
• New Zealand Companies Register — THE COLONIAL MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED (1193) company summary. https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companies/1193 — register record last updated 6 March 2026; retrieved 28 September 2026.
• The Colonial Motor Company Limited, 108th Annual Report for the year ended 30 June 2026, note 16 Subsidiaries. https://www.colmotor.co.nz/i/files/financialreports/TheColonialMotorCompanyLimited2026AnnualReport.pdf — audit report dated 15 September 2026; retrieved 28 September 2026.
• NZX Main Board instrument page, The Colonial Motor Company Limited Ordinary Shares (CMO). https://www.nzx.com/instruments/CMO — retrieved 28 September 2026.