Direct Seafoods
Company-provided description, not an official-source fact. Certifications, capacities, years and market positions stated in it are the company's own claims until a record below confirms them.
Nationale groothandel in vis en zeevruchten voor professionele keukens
Direct Seafoods is een nationale groothandel in vis en zeevruchten voor chef-koks en cateraars in het hele Verenigd Koninkrijk, opererend via een groep regionale visbedrijven. Zij leveren zowel verse als diepvriesproducten aan de foodservicehandel.
- Type
- Not established by any record (our catalog import lists it as distributor; that is not evidence of the role)
- Role
- Role not established by any record
- Location
- Colchester, United Kingdom
- Founded
- 2014 (matches the state register)
- Website
- https://www.directseafoods.co.uk
- Categories
- Zeevruchten en aquacultuur, Bevroren en gekoeld voedsel
- Markets
- Verenigd Koninkrijk
Listed in a source registry
Direct Seafoods website (Severalls Business Park, Colchester)
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 9 official records from 7 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. Nothing here confirms manufacturing, ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- Operating permit for the production site (record type: operating-permit) [official record; status green] Shows an authority issued a permit for an installation at this site for the activity named in the record. A permit is not an inspection report and not an observation that production is running today. effective since 2026-08-01. FSA approved food establishments (Reg. EC 853/2004, England and Wales)
- 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)
- On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 2014-10-03. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. effective since 2014-10-03. Companies House free company data product (UK)
- 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 2026-08-28. Companies House (officers)
- Directors named in the company register (record type: leadership-on-record) [official record; status green] Registry lists Director: Alison Brogan. The people leading the company are named in a public record. checked 2026-08-28. Companies House (officers)
- Owners named in the company register (record type: ownership-on-record) [official record; status green] Controlling owner on record: Bidfresh Limited. Names the company's owners or controllers as the register records them. checked 2026-08-28. 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 2026-08-28. Companies House (accounts)
- 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 2026-08-28. Companies House
- 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 2026-08-28. Mail server of the company domain
- 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 2026-08-28. Domain registry record
- 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 2026-08-28. OpenSanctions
- 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 2026-08-28. OpenSanctions
- Active in the UK registry (record type: ch-active) [official record; status green] The national company register still lists it as active. checked 2026-08-28. Companies House
- Mentioned in independent media (record type: media-mention) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] The press has written about it. A fact, not an endorsement. checked 2026-07-18. The Staff Canteen
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
Check independently
Before a first order, ask whose products they sell and on what basis: a distribution agreement or the manufacturer's authorisation.