Around 80 jobs have been lost after a significant Grimsby seafood operator abruptly closed, with administrators now appointed.
Cook & Lucas, a specialist importer supplying restaurants, fish and chip shops, wholesalers, retailers, mobile fishmongers and the public, operated from premises in neighbouring Riby Street and Humber Street, where it had a processing factory, smoke house and shop.
Launched in 2016, with directors Adam Croft and Antony Lovett at the helm, it had prided itself on white fish filleting and distribution, reaching sales of £25 million. It was understood the company had ceased trading a fortnight ago, with staff laid off without warning. Extensive enquiries with the business, its auditors and solicitors had left the situation unclear, prior to James Clark and Howard Smith’s appointment as joint administrators. They are from international financial advisory business Interpath Advisory.
