ISLAY CRAB EXPORTS LTD
Company number SC245260 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Islay Crab Exports Ltd has built an impressively robust financial position through disciplined self-funded growth, with net assets nearly doubling over a decade to £4.6M while maintaining strong liquidity and minimal leverage. The company's vertical integration from catch to export, combined with Scottish provenance branding, creates defensible competitive advantages in premium seafood markets. However, realizing its full potential requires addressing strategic concentration risk—both in species and geography—and succession planning to ensure the business's considerable asset base continues to generate value beyond its current ownership structure.
Shareholders' funds
£4,644,494
Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2003-03-07
- Employees
- 13 (2025 accounts · was 19 in 2024)
- Registered office
- The Old Surgery, School Road, Tarbert, Argyll, Scotland, PA29 6UL
- Postcode
- PA29 6UL
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Total Exemption Full
- Charges
- 4 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-04-30
- Next due by
- 2027-01-31
- Financial year end
- 30 April
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-04
- Next due by
- 2027-08-18
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46380 Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs
Officers 2 current · 2 resigned
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Contact details
- Website
- islaycrabexports.co.uk
Previous registered addresses 1
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| LOCH AWE HOUSE, BARMORE RD, TARBERT, ARGYLL, PA29 6TW | 2019-01-11 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 13 similar companies in PA
3rd largest employer among its local peers (13 staff).
Trading since 2003.
Competitors Paisley
This company ranks 1 among wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs in Paisley.
The class of 2003
38%
of the 163,090 companies incorporated in 2003 are still active today; 59% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.