UK fish and seafood provider plunges into liquidation – open 30 years | UK | News | EUROtoday

A UK-based seafood provider has collapsed into liquidation 30 years after it was based. Cheek House Ltd was integrated in February 1996 and has spent the intervening a long time promoting fish, crustaceans and molluscs to specialist retailers throughout Europe. The agency, which listed the UK, Spain, France and Switzerland as main commerce bases, was registered to workplaces in Grimsby, North East Lincolnshire.

Liquidators from Wilkin Chapman LLP have been appointed to the enterprise as a part of a voluntary winding up course of on April 28, based on The Gazette. The choice to enter collectors’ voluntary liquidation (CVL) was made following a gathering final month, a process that often entails an organization’s administrators looking for to liquidate it when money owed cannot be paid.

Cheek House Ltd was based by Mike Welburn, who began work as a barrow boy on Hull docks aged 15 earlier than transferring his household to Grimsby in 1981 to change into supervisor on the Lincolnshire city’s North Wall.

After being made redundant in 1991, he started increase his personal fish spherical and used the funds to launch his enterprise.

Data from the Insolvency Service exhibits that the variety of firm insolvencies rose month-on-month by 7% in March to 2,022, with firm voluntary preparations (CVA) additionally doubling to twenty.

Meanwhile, administrations surged 52% between February and March to 235 and have been 82% larger than in March 2025, whereas obligatory liquidations jumped 18%.

Sarah Rayment, co-head of world restructuring in danger advisory agency Kroll, warned that gasoline and transport prices have been ramping up strain on companies of all sizes, approaching high of huge will increase in wage payments.

“As we saw after the beginning of the Ukrainian conflict, when fuel prices surged, there was a direct impact on logistics, haulage and delivery businesses,” she stated.

“There are already big companies saying they will have no choice but to pass costs on to customers. It’s a lot more challenging for small and mid-sized companies and may sadly push many to the edge.”

Cheek House Ltd and Wilkin Chapman LLP have been contacted for remark.