SYKES SEAFOOD LIMITED
Get an alert when SYKES SEAFOOD LIMITED files next
Leroy will email you the moment a new filing lands at Companies House — one short note per filing, nothing else.
Next accounts due
2026-12-31 (in 7mo)
Last filed for 2025-03-29
Confirmation statement due
2027-01-14 (in 8mo)
Last made up 2025-12-31
Watchouts
None on the register
Cash
£4M
-40.5% vs 2024
Net assets
£12M
+35.9% vs 2024
Employees
406
-12.1% vs 2024
Profit before tax
£4M
+223.2% vs 2024
Name history
Renamed 4 times since incorporation
- SYKES SEAFOOD LIMITED 2019-11-01 → present
- J SYKES & SONS (MANCHESTER) LIMITED 1998-04-05 → 2019-11-01
- J. SYKES & SONS (FISH MERCHANTS) LIMITED 1993-04-02 → 1998-04-05
- GLOBAL SEA FOODS LIMITED 1988-11-15 → 1993-04-02
- DIGITMODEL LIMITED 1988-08-24 → 1988-11-15
Net assets
2-year trend · vs Consumer Discretionary median
Accounts
2-year trend · latest reflected 2025-03-29
| Metric | Trend | 2024-03-29 | 2025-03-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turnover | £230,336,000 | £241,735,000 | |
| Operating profit | £90,000 | £5,884,000 | |
| Profit before tax | -£3,090,000 | £3,808,000 | |
| Net profit | -£2,809,000 | £3,107,000 | |
| Cash | £6,936,000 | £4,127,000 | |
| Total assets less current liabilities | £14,519,000 | £16,504,000 | |
| Net assets | £8,665,000 | £11,772,000 | |
| Equity | £8,665,000 | £11,772,000 | |
| Average employees | 462 | 406 | |
| Wages | £17,431,000 | £15,328,000 |
Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers
Ratios
Computed from the line items above — sparklines read oldest → newest
| Ratio | Trend | 2024-03-29 | 2025-03-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating margin | 0.0% | 2.4% | |
| Net margin | -1.2% | 1.3% | |
| Return on capital employed | 0.6% | 35.7% | |
| Current ratio | 0.89x | 0.97x | |
| Interest cover | 0.03x | 2.74x |
Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.
Audit & accounting basis
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Standalone (parent only)
- Auditor
- Grant Thornton UK LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“The Directors therefore have a reasonable expectation that there are no material uncertainties that cast significant doubt over the company's ability to continue operating for the foreseeable future. For these reasons, the financial statements have been prepared on a going concern basis.”
Group structure
- SYKES SEAFOOD LIMITED · parent
- Sykes Manufacturing Limited 100%
Significant events
- “Consolidating operations into the new state of the art distribution centre in Warrington in 2024 positioned the company for significant growth opportunity.”
- “On 8 September 2023, Sykes Seafood Holdings Limited, Sykes Seafood Limited and Ruskim Seafoods Limited, signed a 20-year lease for a new state of the art storage and distribution facility in Warrington. The building serves as the head office and the facility was operational from April 2023.”
- “During the period Ruskim Seafoods Limited, a fellow subsidiary of Sykes Seafood Holdings Limited. transferred some of its assets to the company.”
Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers
People
3 active · 24 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DALE, Alan David, Mr. | Director | 2014-05-01 | Apr 1980 | British |
| SAMWELL, David | Director | 2015-05-07 | Oct 1974 | British |
| TOWNEND, Neil | Director | 2025-03-14 | Feb 1978 | British |
Show 24 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| HETHERINGTON, David Malcolm | Secretary | 1993-03-05 | 1993-11-16 |
| SYKES, Joan | Secretary | 1993-11-16 | 1997-04-30 |
| SYKES, Patricia Rosemary | Secretary | 1997-04-30 | 2008-11-03 |
| SYKES, Patricia Rosemary | Secretary | — | 1993-03-05 |
| THOMSON, John | Secretary | 2008-11-03 | 2013-04-30 |
| ARDRON, Nicholas John | Director | 2009-01-12 | 2009-03-16 |
| ARDRON, Nicholas John | Director | 2004-06-03 | 2006-03-01 |
| ASHTON, Denis | Director | 2004-06-03 | 2010-01-31 |
| BLACKSHAW, Gordon John | Director | 2004-06-03 | 2020-08-14 |
| HETHERINGTON, David Malcolm | Director | 1993-03-05 | 1999-10-29 |
| HOLLOWAY, John Frederick | Director | 2004-06-03 | 2016-01-14 |
| PICKUP, Andrew David | Director | 2016-01-04 | 2019-02-28 |
| RANKIN, Gordon Samuel | Director | 2011-01-25 | 2016-12-14 |
| SIDDALL, Edward Dennan | Director | 2013-10-09 | 2016-01-31 |
| SYKES, Alexander James | Director | 2010-01-31 | 2016-04-12 |
| SYKES, David | Director | — | 2016-01-07 |
| SYKES, Martin | Director | — | 2018-07-31 |
| SYKES, Matthew James | Director | 1996-06-21 | 2018-06-13 |
| SYKES, Ronald | Director | 1993-03-05 | 1996-01-18 |
| THOMSON, John Pender | Director | 2010-12-23 | 2013-04-30 |
| THOMSON, John Pender | Director | 2006-03-01 | 2010-01-31 |
| TILSTON, Steven | Director | 2009-01-12 | 2014-10-08 |
| TILSTON, Steven | Director | 2004-06-03 | 2006-03-01 |
| WRIGHT, Daniel John | Director | 2015-01-06 | 2025-03-14 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
| Name | Kind | Nature of control | Notified | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sykes Seafood Holdings Limited | Corporate entity | Shares 75–100% | 2016-04-06 | Active |
Filing timeline
Last 20 of 208 total filings
Material constitutional events — rename, articles re-file, resolution
- 2024-08-21 MA Memorandum articles
| Date | Type | Category | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-18 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2026-02-05 | MR04 | mortgage | Mortgage satisfy charge full | |
| 2026-01-26 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2025-12-23 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-07-28 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2025-04-25 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company current shortened | |
| 2025-03-28 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous shortened | |
| 2025-03-28 | AA01 | accounts | Change account reference date company previous extended | |
| 2025-03-17 | TM01 | officers | Termination director company with name termination date | |
| 2025-03-17 | CH01 | officers | Change person director company with change date | |
| 2025-03-14 | AP01 | officers | Appoint person director company with name date | |
| 2025-01-13 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates | |
| 2024-08-21 | MA | incorporation | Memorandum articles | |
| 2024-04-05 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-04-05 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-04-05 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-04-04 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-01-31 | MR01 | mortgage | Mortgage create with deed with charge number charge creation date | |
| 2024-01-14 | AA | accounts | Accounts with accounts type full | |
| 2024-01-09 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | Confirmation statement with no updates |
Public-record activity
Raw counts from Companies House — last 12–24 months
- Filings
- 5
- Capital events
- 0
- Officers appointed
- 0
- Officers resigned
- 0
last 12 months
last 24 months
last 12 months
last 12 months
Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.
Year-on-year
FY2024 → FY2025 · period ending 2025-03-29 vs 2024-03-29
-
Turnover
+4.9%
£230,336,000 £241,735,000
-
Cash
-40.5%
£6,936,000 £4,127,000
-
Net assets
+35.9%
£8,665,000 £11,772,000
-
Employees
-12.1%
462 406
-
Operating profit
+6,437.8%
£90,000 £5,884,000
-
Profit before tax
+223.2%
-£3,090,000 £3,808,000
-
Wages
-12.1%
£17,431,000 £15,328,000
Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers