Up to 500 Companies

Home of the UK’s leading seafood companies

Headquarters of UK’s Biggest Seafood Company Young's is part of the Foodvest Group, one of Europe’s leading food businesses and a major employer in the area, with some 2,500 people based at its global headquarters. From its Grimsby base, Young’s has a world wide sourcing operation supplying 60 species from 30 countries. The company supplies all major supermarkets and retail outlets with a wide range of sustainable fish products, including their iconic Great Grimsby range.

Young’s television advertisements regular celebrate Grimsby’s rich heritage and continuing importance as the home of seafood. Check out these at: http://www.youngsseafood.co.uk/web/tv_ads.asp

More than 100 Seafood Firms

Coldwater Seafood employs more than 700 people across its sites in Grimsby and is a major frozen and chilled seafood supplier to Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Morrisons, ASDA, Iceland and Aldi. In 2008, the firm opened a new Product Development Centre and production facilities.

Other major firms include Five Star Fish, the leading supplier of fish products to the UK foodservice market whose state of the art factory and 5,000 pallet cold store is at the leading edge of fish processing technology.

Handling seafood from around the world, there are specialists like Oceanwide Seafood who import and market a wide range of frozen and fresh exotic fish from SE Asia and South America.

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Headland Foods

A leading manufacturer of Frozen Own Label Ready Meals supplying major retailers in the UK, Headland produces over 180 different product lines across the Traditional, Italian, Indian, International and Healthy sectors of the Frozen Ready Meal Market. A £15m investment in the new Grimsby site makes Headland Foods the first food company in the UK to install the latest fully automated lasagne line, which produces 110 lasagne meals a minute.