ISLAY CRAB EXPORTS LTD

Company number SC245260 ·

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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.

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Shareholders' funds

£4,644,494

Balance sheet as at 2025-04-30

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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
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Nature of business (SIC)

  • 46380 Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs

Officers 2 current · 2 resigned

FIONA MCFARLANE Secretary
ADMINISTRATOR Appointed 2003-03-07
Appointed 2003-03-07

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Licensed visa sponsor

Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).

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Contact details

Website
islaycrabexports.co.uk

Previous registered addresses 1

AddressChanged on
LOCH AWE HOUSE, BARMORE RD, TARBERT, ARGYLL, PA29 6TW2019-01-11

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.

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Competitors Paisley

This company ranks 1 among wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs in Paisley.

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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.

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