OCEAN KING LTD
Company number 07360740 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Ocean King Ltd is a mid-tier UK seafood wholesaler whose FY2025 accounts reveal a significant deterioration in financial health, with net assets declining 25.7% to £962k and current liabilities surging 48%, strongly suggesting a substantial loss year. While the company benefits from 15 years of established trading, family governance alignment, and adequate (though declining) liquidity, it faces structural headwinds common to the sector – thin margins, post-Brexit supply chain friction, cold-chain cost inflation, and scale disadvantages versus larger competitors. The shift in liability structure and rising debtor levels warrant close monitoring in subsequent periods.
Shareholders' funds
£961,823
Balance sheet as at 2025-08-31
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 2010-08-31
- Employees
- 37 (2025 accounts · was 34 in 2024)
- Registered office
- Victory Park Way, Victory Park, Derby, Derbyshire, England, DE24 8ZF
- Postcode
- DE24 8ZF
- Capital
- 100 GBP
- Accounts category
- Small
- Charges
- 0 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-08-31
- Next due by
- 2027-05-31
- Financial year end
- 31 August
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-14
Nature of business (SIC)
- 46380 Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs
Officers 4 current
Group structure
Controlled by THAICORP LTD — since 2021-09-01
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Licensed visa sponsor
Licensed by the Home Office to sponsor worker visas: Skilled Worker (Worker (A rating)).
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Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA858498 (Tier 2), registered since 2021.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- oceanking.co.uk
- Phone
- 01509268882
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 832 similar companies in DE — measured against the wider sector
Among the biggest employers among its local peers (37 staff).
The oldest of its local peers, trading since 2010.
The class of 2010
21%
of the 376,891 companies incorporated in 2010 are still active today; 77% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.
Property in England & Wales 1 title
- Leasehold
- 1
- Most recent registration
- 2013-05-08
- Where
- Leicestershire
| Title number | County | Tenure | Registered | Price paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT451515 | Leicestershire | Leasehold | 2013-05-08 | — |
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