BLUESHELL MUSSELS LIMITED
Company number SC254395 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Blueshell Mussels is a strongly capitalised, family-controlled and vertically integrated Shetland shellfish producer with premium provenance and a balance sheet capable of funding growth. The priority is to convert £6.8m cash and low leverage into branded, value-added and export-led capacity while maintaining biological and regulatory resilience. Success will depend on professionalising governance, diversifying customers and proving disciplined returns on a capital-intensive asset base.
Shareholders' funds
£16,081,933
Balance sheet as at 2025-07-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2003-08-18
- Employees
- 31 (2025 accounts · was 28 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Farm Office, Sparl, Brae, Shetland, Scotland, ZE2 9QJ
- Postcode
- ZE2 9QJ
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 5 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-07-31
- Next due by
- 2027-04-30
- Financial year end
- 31 July
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-09-20
- Next due by
- 2027-10-04
Nature of business (SIC)
- 3210 Marine aquaculture
- 10200 Processing and preserving of fish, crustaceans and molluscs
Officers 4 current · 2 resigned
Group structure 6 subsidiaries
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SHETLAND CRAB LTD Dissolved
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SI SEAFARMS LIMITED Dissolved
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| PICNICGREAT LIMITED | 2003-09-04 |
Previous registered addresses 2
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| QUI-NESS, MUCKLE ROE, BRAE, SHETLAND, ZE2 9QW | 2005-08-22 |
| 24 GREAT KING STREET, EDINBURGH, MIDLOTHIAN, EH3 6QN | 2003-09-01 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 30 similar companies in ZE
2nd largest employer among its local peers (31 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 2003.
No.2 of the largest marine aquaculture companies in Shetland →
Competitors Shetland
This company ranks 2 among marine aquaculture in Shetland.
The class of 2003
38%
of the 163,090 companies incorporated in 2003 are still active today; 60% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.