GRIMALDI AGENCIES UK LIMITED
Company number 01130103 · Monitor this company
Executive summary
Grimaldi Agencies UK Limited is a well-established, group-backed shipping agency that benefits from the structural advantages of captive business flows and a valuable Central London property portfolio, delivering consistent turnover growth and strong net asset accumulation. However, its competitive position is defined by dependency on the Grimaldi Group for revenue and liquidity support, with the 2022 commission-sharing restructuring signalling internal margin pressure that offset much of the benefit from recovering freight markets. The company is financially sound within its niche but lacks strategic autonomy, operating essentially as a stable but passive conduit for its parent's UK interests.
Shareholders' funds
£8,895,153
Balance sheet as at 2022-12-31
What it does
The principal activities of the company in the year under review were those of shipping agents and freight contracting together with property letting and management.
The company's own description, from its latest filed accounts.
Overview
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Incorporated
- 1973-08-20
- Employees
- 68 (2022 accounts · was 67 in 2021)
- Registered office
- Grimaldi House, St. James's Square, London, England, SW1Y 4JH
- Postcode
- SW1Y 4JH
- Capital
- 1,800,000 GBP
- Accounts category
- Full
- Charges
- 3 outstanding
Accounts
- Last made up to
- 2025-12-31
- Next due by
- 2027-09-30
- Financial year end
- 31 December
Confirmation statement
- Last statement dated
- 2026-08-17
- Next due by
- 2027-08-31
Nature of business (SIC)
- 50200 Sea and coastal freight water transport
Officers 4 current · 7 resigned
Group structure
Controlled by Grimaldi Group S.P.A. (00301255) — since 2016-07-01
From persons-with-significant-control filings on the public register.
Data protection registration
Registered with the ICO as a data protection fee payer — ZA608738 (Tier 2), registered since 2020.
Information Commissioner's Office register of fee payers, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Contact details
- Website
- grimaldi.co.uk
With experience dating back to 1947, the Grimaldi Group is a multinational logistics Group specialised in the operation of roll-on/roll-off vessels, car carriers and ferries.
Previous company names
| Name | Date changed |
|---|---|
| ASSOCIATED OCEANIC AGENCIES (U.K.) LIMITED | 1999-11-29 |
Previous registered addresses 3
| Address | Changed on |
|---|---|
| GRIMALDI HOUSE, 28 ST JAMESS SQUARE, LONDON, SW1Y 4JH | 2018-10-08 |
| 103/105 JERMYN STREET, LONDON, SW1Y 6EE | 2002-08-02 |
| EAGLE HSE, JERMYN ST., LONDON SW1 | 1990-10-01 |
Among its peers
Top 10%
by shareholders' funds, of 38 similar companies in SW
The largest employer among its local peers (68 staff).
Among the oldest 25% of its local peers, trading since 1973.
No.2 of the largest sea and coastal freight water transport companies in London →
Competitors London
This company ranks 2 among sea and coastal freight water transport in London.
The class of 1973
52%
of the 7,318 companies incorporated in 1973 are still active today; 41% have since been dissolved.
A fact about the year, not a forecast for this company.