The company creates frozen fish products primarily aimed at the catering and the foodservice market.

With over 25 years of experience amongst its senior employees using individual quick freezing methods and producing breaded and battered fish products, the company has a unique market strength, supplying to the leading foodservice companies in the UK and Europe.

The Innovation

• battered fish products that can be cooked straight from frozen
• goujons with an Indian style dry Amritsari coating
• modifications to an existing fish thawing machine to improve the defrosting process and reduce weight loss in the defrosting process, keeping yield as high as possible
• plant based products coated in batter to provide a similar texture, appearance and flavour to fish, to cater for the rising vegan and vegetarian eaters in society
• high quality fish products which replicate a 'hand battered’ texture and flavour, but are created using automated methods
• adaptation/enhancements to current machinery and procedures to comply with updated insurance conditions.

R&D claim

Two years – large corporate group – total R & D costs added together, received 9% of qualifying expenditure as a payable credit.