THE LOBSTER POT ANGLESEY LIMITED

What THE LOBSTER POT ANGLESEY LIMITED does

The Lobster Pot Anglesey Limited is a family-run B2B seafood supplier headquartered in Church Bay, Anglesey, Wales, specializing in the live shellfish segment for approximately 80 years (founded circa 1940-1946). The company's core products are live European Blue Lobster (Homarus gammarus) and Brown Crab (Cancer pagurus), supplemented on request by spider crabs, shrimps, and velvet crabs. It sells B2B to wholesalers, fishmongers, hoteliers, and restaurants, with customers in the UK, continental Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia. The business is now in its third generation of family ownership, with Tristan Wood serving as Managing Director.

Operations center on a modernized facility equipped with purpose-built holding tanks and packing infrastructure designed to keep live shellfish in saleable condition for international dispatch. The firm holds HACCP certification for food safety and traceability, and has built multi-modal cold-chain logistics spanning road and air freight to move live product across four continents. Distribution capability, rather than any disclosed software stack, is the primary operating technology. The firm also operates a small portfolio of holiday cottages on the Anglesey coast as a secondary revenue stream.

The business model is wholesale supply of premium live shellfish on a B2B basis, monetized through volume-based pricing per shipment across spot and long-standing contract customers (some relationships exceeding 60 years). Revenue mechanics are driven by species mix, seasonality, freight mode (air versus road), and destination market. The explicit export orientation is evidenced by a multilingual website (English, Chinese, Japanese, French), the WCNW Chamber Exporter of the Year 2024 award, and the Wales Food and Drink Awards 2022 recognition.

Name

THE LOBSTER POT ANGLESEY LIMITED

Legal name

THE LOBSTER POT ANGLESEY LIMITED

Website

https://thelobsterpot.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1940

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Lobster Pot Anglesey Limited is a third-generation, family-run B2B seafood supplier in Anglesey, Wales, exporting live European Blue Lobster, Brown Crab, and other shellfish to wholesalers, fishmongers, hoteliers, and restaurants across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Seafood Wholesale

NAICS

Fish and Seafood Merchant Wholesalers (42446), Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging (31171)

SIC

Prepared Fresh Or Frozen Fish & Seafoods (2092)

akta.pro primary industry

Shellfish Wholesale (Crustaceans & Mollusks) (AFAIADAF)

Keywords

• Live lobster supply
• Seafood wholesale
• Shellfish distribution
• Sustainable fishing
• Crustacean export

Headquarters

HQ city

Wales

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Live Shellfish Sales: Direct sales of live European Blue Lobster (Homarus Gammarus), Brown Crab (Cancer Pagurus), and other shellfish products to wholesalers, fishmongers, hoteliers, and restaurants worldwide. Products supplied year-round with highest availability between May and November. Some customers have been trading with the company for over 60 years.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Lobster Pot supplies live, sustainably sourced European Blue Lobster (Homarus Gammarus) and Brown Crab (Cancer Pagurus) year-round to wholesalers, fishmongers, hoteliers, and restaurants across the UK, Europe, Middle East, North America, and Asia. Additional shellfish such as Spider Crabs, Shrimps, and Velvet Crabs are available on request. Products are processed at an innovative factory with modernised holding tanks and HACCP-controlled packing facilities, and distributed globally via road and air freight.

Product overview

The Lobster Pot is a family-run seafood supplier specializing in live European Blue Lobster (Homarus Gammarus) and Brown Crab (Cancer Pagurus), with additional shellfish products available on request including Spider Crabs, Shrimps, and Velvet Crabs. The company supplies wholesalers, fishmongers, hoteliers, and restaurants across the UK, Europe, Middle East, North America, and Asia. Products are sustainably sourced from experienced and trusted boats along the Welsh and UK coastlines, with fully traceable, high-quality fresh produce regularly monitored and HACCP controlled.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• European Blue Lobster (Homarus Gammarus)

Quantifiable outcome

• Operating for over 80 years with some customer relationships spanning 60+ years
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Vivier Boats (Welsh Coast)coreOthersVivier boats (equipped with onboard storage tanks) supply live shellfish year-round from the Welsh coast including the Lleyn Peninsula and Anglesey. These boats are skippered by trusted and experienced crews, ensuring reliable sourcing of high-quality products.
• Day Boats (Welsh and UK Coast)coreOthersDay boats from around the Welsh coast as well as further afield in the UK and Ireland supply fresh catches. These experienced and trusted crews fish from May to October and year-round depending on weather conditions.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Thai Union Group: Global seafood conglomerate with shellfish, lobster, and crab product lines distributed into retail and foodservice worldwide — a much larger incumbent in the same destination markets Lobster Pot serves.
• Royal Greenland: Global seafood processor and distributor with a meaningful shellfish (crab, cold-water prawn, scallop) portfolio across Europe, North America and Asia, operating with comparable B2B foodservice and retail customers.
• Clearwater Seafoods: Canadian-headquartered global shellfish (crab, lobster, clams, scallops) major with worldwide wholesale and foodservice distribution — overlapping product category and customer base at significantly larger scale.
• Whitby Seafoods: Established UK seafood company producing prepared and frozen seafood products for retail and foodservice; serves the same UK and international B2B customers with an overlapping shellfish portfolio.

Direct peers

• John Ross Jr (Aberdeen): Aberdeen-based, family-run UK live shellfish exporter with a comparable portfolio (langoustines, crabs, lobster) and global export focus, making it the closest direct peer in the Welsh/Scottish live-shellfish niche.
• Macduff Shellfish: Scottish shellfish processor and merchant wholesaler supplying live and processed crab and lobster to retail, wholesale and foodservice channels across Europe and Asia — directly comparable in product mix, customer base, and export model.
• Coast Seafood: Norwegian-owned live and frozen shellfish specialist (crab, lobster, langoustine) with strong European and Asian foodservice distribution — direct peer in live-shellfish logistics and customer mix.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/thelobsterpotanglesey

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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