Couper Seafoods Ltd
No description from the company. The catalog line you may see elsewhere is generated by us from the category and location, not a statement by the company.
- Type
- manufacturer (our classification of the record, not a statement by the company)
- Role
- Manufacturer (official record)
- Location
- Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 1987 (matches the state register)
- Website
- https://couperseafoods.co.uk
- Categories
- Mariscos y acuicultura
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 8 official records from 6 official sources are on file. 5 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. The manufacturing role above rests on the official records listed below, and only as far as each literally goes: a facility registration or licence is not an observation of current production. Nothing here confirms ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- First recorded on the web archive (record type: web-presence-since) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The company website was already online in 2013. Shows a web archive saw a page at this address on that date. It does not show who ran the site then. checked 2026-08-04. Internet Archive (Wayback)
- Market access approved: European Union (record type: market-access-eu) [official record; status green] Shows the facility is on the destination market's list of establishments approved for the listed goods. A listing is not an observation of current production. checked 2026-08-22. TRACES NT, European Commission register of approved establishments (DG SANTE)
- Active in the UK registry (record type: ch-active) [official record; status green] The national company register still lists it as active. checked 2026-09-03. Companies House
- No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. checked 2026-09-03. OpenSanctions
- Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-09-03. Domain registry record
- No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. checked 2026-09-03. OpenSanctions
- Named directors on file (record type: directors-on-file) [official record; status green] 3 directors on file. The register names the people who run the company, so there is someone answerable if something goes wrong. checked 2026-09-03. Companies House
- A director was appointed, on the official record (record type: officer-appointed) [official record; status green] Shows that a named person answers for the company on the public record. checked 2026-09-03. Companies House (officers)
- Directors named in the company register (record type: leadership-on-record) [official record; status green] Registry lists Director: Daniel Couper. The people leading the company are named in a public record. checked 2026-09-03. Companies House (officers)
- Owners named in the company register (record type: ownership-on-record) [official record; status green] Controlling owner on record: Mr Jamie Couper. Names the company's owners or controllers as the register records them. checked 2026-09-03. Companies House (PSC)
- Annual accounts filed with the register (record type: annual-accounts-filed) [official record; status green] Annual accounts filed for 2025. Indicates the company still meets its reporting duties. checked 2026-09-03. Companies House (accounts)
- Business email on the company's own domain (record type: corporate-mail-on-domain) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows the domain runs its own email rather than a free mailbox. It describes the domain, not who owns it. checked 2026-09-03. Mail server of the company domain
- On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 1987-04-30. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. effective since 1987-04-30. Companies House free company data product (UK)
Relationships
4 relationship(s) on file. Each line names the other party, the relationship as its source records it, and the source. A record of a relationship is not a finding about control beyond what it literally says.
Recorded in a source
- Mr Jamie Couper: Person with significant control. Companies House (PSC)
- 2 more officer(s), not named in the record: Officer in the register. Companies House
- Daniel Couper: Officer in the register. Companies House (officers)
- 18 South Esplanade West, Aberdeen AB11 9AA, AB11, Aberdeen: Holds the site's permit, registry number AA140. TRACES NT, European Commission register of approved establishments (DG SANTE)
Import rules for these goods
- EU imports of food of animal origin and many other food categories must be pre-notified in TRACES and enter through border control posts. European Commission (TRACES)
- US imports require the foreign facility to be FDA-registered and the importer to run a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). US FDA