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Company description
FIRST GRADE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED is a UK company whose Companies House status is “Active” and whose registered company type is “Private Limited Company”. Incorporated on 28 November 2002; registered for 23 years; registered office reported in BROMSGROVE, WORCESTERSHIRE,, UNITED KINGDOM. Its primary declared activity is 46380 · Wholesale of other food, including fish, crustaceans and molluscs.
This BritDB profile also contains linked public records: 2 PSC records, 6 trade marks. This description is assembled from public data, is not a reliability assessment, and should be checked against the cited sources before a legally significant decision.
Web facts are never added from a name match alone. Internet enrichment requires the exact Companies House ID in Wikidata, and ambiguous results are excluded.
01 Company overview
Identity and registration
- Official name
- FIRST GRADE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
- Company number
- 04603605
- Company type
- Private Limited Company
- Status
- Active
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Dissolution date
- Not supplied
- Accounts category
- FULL
- Mortgage charges
- 8 total · 5 outstanding · 3 satisfied
- Limited partnership members
- 0 general · 0 limited
A registered office is not necessarily a trading location. The address is reproduced from the Companies House bulk record and should be interpreted in that legal context.
02 Filing dates
Accounts and statements
Last accounts made up to
31 December 2024Next accounts due
30 September 2026Last statement made up to
28 November 2025Next statement due
12 December 2026BritDB does not infer overdue status when the source does not state it.
03 Supplier payments
Payment practices and performance
- Reporting period
- 1 January 2026 – 30 June 2026
- Filed
- 20 July 2026
- Shortest standard term
- 30 days
- Longest standard term
- Not supplied
- E-invoicing offered
- No
- Supply-chain finance
- Not offered
- Payment codes
- No
- Construction retentions
- No qualifying construction contracts
Complete reported payment fields
- Policy regime
- Regime-3
- Financial period started
- 1 January 2026
- Qualifying contracts
- Yes
- Payments made
- Yes
- Invoice value paid within 30 days
- £4,120,476
- Invoice value paid in 31–60 days
- £1,993,341
- Invoice value paid after 60 days
- £305,190
- Invoice value paid outside agreed terms
- £916,923
- Invoices paid in 31–60 days
- 31.0%
- Invoices unpaid due to dispute
- 33.0%
- Maximum contractual payment period
- 90 days
- Supplier-list charging policy
- No
- Supplier-list charges made
- No
Reported terms and dispute process
- Standard payment terms
The company aim to pay in line with the terms agreed with suppliers. Where no agreement exists, the company aims to pay suppliers 30 days after the invoice date. Prompt payment is subject to receiving an accurate invoice which quotes the correct purchase order number.
- Dispute resolution process
All invoices are checked against our purchase order number or with the person responsible for the order . When a discrepancy arises, which can be caused by incorrect pricing/quantities or the quality of goods or services, the invoice will be placed on hold. Invoices that are in dispute will not be paid until the issue has been resolved. The supplier is notified that the invoice is in dispute. Once the dispute has been resolved, payment will be made in accordance with the payment terms, unless the invoice is overdue whereupon it will be paid on the next available payment run.
Earlier payment reports (11 shown)
- 22.0 average days to pay21.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay20.0% outside terms
- 22.0 average days to pay24.0% outside terms
- 25.0 average days to pay30.0% outside terms
- 34.0 average days to pay78.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay75.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay83.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay86.0% outside terms
- 36.0 average days to pay86.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay85.0% outside terms
- 35.0 average days to pay81.0% outside terms
This is a company-submitted statutory disclosure, not a credit rating. BritDB preserves the reporting period and links the report only through the Companies House number supplied by the official service. Percentages describe payments made during that period and may change in later reports.
04 Global legal identity
Legal Entity Identifier
FIRST GRADE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
LEI 213800JJ5K1764BNES93 · jurisdiction GB
- Legal form
- H0PO
- Entity category
- GENERAL
- Entity created
- 28 November 2002
- Initial LEI registration
- 17 April 2015
- LEI last updated
- 7 October 2025
- Next renewal
- 1 December 2026
- Managing LOU
- 213800WAVVOPS85N2205
- Legal address
- COCONUT HOUSE TAY COURT, ISIDORE ROAD, BROMSGROVE ENTERPRISE PARK, BROMSGROVE, GB-WOR, B60 3FQ, GB
- Headquarters address
- COCONUT HOUSE TAY COURT, ISIDORE ROAD, BROMSGROVE ENTERPRISE PARK, BROMSGROVE, GB-WOR, B60 3FQ, GB
GLEIF parent-reporting exceptions
DIRECT ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
ULTIMATE ACCOUNTING CONSOLIDATION PARENT
NO_KNOWN_PERSON
LEI data provides global legal identity and source-reported relationships, not a credit or regulatory approval. BritDB links Level 1 identities only through GLEIF’s Companies House registration-authority identifier and exact company number; Level 2 parent and fund relationships and reporting exceptions are reproduced as supplied by GLEIF.
05 Supply-chain transparency
Modern slavery statement
- Organisation
- FIRST GRADE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
- Group submission
- No
- Statement period
- 1 January 2025 – 31 December 2025
- Approved
- 27 February 2026
- Sectors
- Food and beverages, agriculture and fishing
Organisation structure
Covered in the statement
Policies
Covered in the statement
Risk assessment
Covered in the statement
Due diligence
Covered in the statement
Training
Covered in the statement
Goals and KPIs
Covered in the statement
Full statement information supplied to the registry
- Reported turnover band
- £60 million to £100 million
- Years producing statements
- More than 5 years
- ILO indicators included
- Not answered
- Registry record updated
- 27 February 2026
Policies described
Freedom of workers to terminate employment Freedom of movement Freedom of association Prohibits any threat of violence, harassment and intimidation Prohibits the use of worker-paid recruitment fees Prohibits compulsory overtime Prohibits child labour Prohibits discrimination Prohibits confiscation of workers' original identification documents Provides access to remedy, compensation and justice for victims of modern slavery
Training described
Your whole organisation Executive-level staff
Worker engagement and working conditions
Your suppliers Professional auditors Workers within your organisation Businesses in your industry or sector
Social audits
Third party audit arranged by your organisation Third party audit arranged by your supplier Announced audit Unannounced audit
Grievance mechanisms
Using anonymous whistleblowing services, such as a helpline or mobile phone app Through trade unions or other worker representative groups
Other monitoring
Risk assessment built through using SEDEX data, Stronger together and supplier visiting by our internal staff. Specific project on going in Turkey with the FLA as well targetting working conditions.
Actions addressing ILO indicators
Financial remediation, including repayment of recruitment fees Change in policy Change in training Referring potential victims to government services Supporting victims via NGO Supporting investigations by relevant authorities
Demonstrated progress
We have included KPIs covering suppliers registered on SEDEX, those registered who have an up to date SAQ, those that have had an audit and the % of corrective actions closed within the action window. We have also included training coverage.
Reported risks and mitigations
- Risk: Turkey has been identified as a significant risk for modern slavery/child labour due to the high cost of living/high inflationary pressures.
- Area: Within your supply chains
- Tier: Tier 1 suppliers Tier 2 suppliers
- Group: Women Children
- Location: Turkey
- Mitigation: FGI has been engaged with our supplier present within Turkey on a project of educating/upskilling farmers and labour contractors on their obligations towards pickers, wage requirements, PPE supply and ensuring any child workers are identified and remediation actions put in place immediately.
A registry entry records what the organisation declared in its statement. It is not an independent audit. Group statements can cover several companies; BritDB preserves each exact source-supplied company-number link and excludes approver names and email addresses.
TM UK trade marks
Exact owner-name matches
KOKO
Owner First Grade International Limited · classes 29,30,32
- Filed / designated
- 1 June 2017
- Valid until / renewal due
- 1 June 2027
KOKO DESIRE
Owner First Grade International Limited · classes 29,30,32
- Filed / designated
- 2 March 2016
- Valid until / renewal due
- 2 March 2026
KOKO
Owner First Grade International Limited · classes 29,30,32
- Filed / designated
- 30 July 2015
- Valid until / renewal due
- 30 July 2025
KOKO WIZE
Owner First Grade International Limited · classes 29,30,32
- Filed / designated
- 4 September 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 4 September 2023
KOKOWIZE
Owner First Grade International Limited · classes 29,30,32
- Filed / designated
- 8 July 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 July 2023
KOKO WIZE
Owner First Grade International Limited · classes 29,30,32
- Filed / designated
- 8 July 2013
- Valid until / renewal due
- 8 July 2023
This is an exact normalised company-name match, not a registrar-confirmed ownership link. Another legal entity can have the same or a very similar name. UKIPO data is a historical 2018 snapshot; verify the owner and current status before relying on it.
06 Ownership and control
People with significant control
Mr Melvin Zhuan Leeh TaySee 3 companies with this PSC name →
- Owns 25% to 50% of shares
- Nationality
- Singaporean
- Country of residence
- Singapore
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Appointment Verification Statement Date: 2025-11-29T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Statement Due On: 2025-12-12T00:00:00Z
Mrs Ban Geok Tay
- Owns 50% to 75% of shares
- Nationality
- Singaporean
- Country of residence
- Singapore
- Notified
- 6 April 2016
- Appointment Verification Statement Date: 2025-11-29T00:00:00Z
- Appointment Verification Statement Due On: 2025-12-12T00:00:00Z
PSC records are company-filed public-register information. When the exact same displayed individual name occurs at multiple companies, BritDB offers a non-indexed cross-reference page. It is a name match only, not proof that the records describe the same person. Service addresses and partial dates of birth are deliberately omitted.
07 Charity register
Charity Commission links
No exact company-number link in this snapshot
The Charity Commission extract did not explicitly associate this Companies House number with a charity. BritDB does not use a name-only match to fill the gap.
This company-level check covers the Charity Commission for England and Wales. Links are accepted only when the official extract supplies this exact company registration number. Scottish charities now have separate OSCR profiles, but OSCR’s bulk fields do not provide a Companies House number, so BritDB does not infer a company link.
08 Northern Ireland charity register
CCNI exact company links
No unambiguous company-number link found
The CCNI source number did not resolve uniquely to this Companies House record. BritDB did not use a name or address match.
CCNI publishes company numbers without a jurisdiction prefix. BritDB links only when the plausible padded UK and NI candidates resolve to exactly one Companies House company.
09 Sanctions screening
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link found
The imported UK Sanctions List did not supply this Companies House number as a UK-linked business identifier. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
No exact link is not sanctions clearance. UK restrictions can apply through ownership or control even where an entity is not separately named. Always use the current official list and obtain appropriate advice for a legally significant decision.
10 Public procurement
Find a Tender links
No exact GB-COH link in this snapshot
Find a Tender did not explicitly identify this Companies House number in a procurement party. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
These links use only the GB-COH identifier supplied in the procurement record. A company may have other public-sector work that is absent, older, below publication thresholds or published without a Companies House identifier.
11 Environmental register
Environment Agency waste registrations
No exact company-number registration linked
The licensed Environment Agency subset did not contain this exact Companies House number. BritDB did not attempt a name-only match.
This is a privacy-reduced, exact-company subset. The full official register also includes sole traders and applicants without a matching Companies House number. Check the current Environment Agency register before relying on registration status.
12 Nature of business
Standard Industrial Classification
13 Connected public record
Checks beyond the company register
Charity Commission
0 exact company-number links.
Northern Ireland charities
0 unambiguous company-number links.
Public contracts
0 procurement processes linked by exact GB-COH identifier.
Waste register
0 exact company-number registrations.
Corporate notices
The Gazette is not yet connected.
UK Sanctions List
No exact business-registration-number link in this report.
A checked source with no exact link is not a clean bill of health. Unchecked sources remain unknown, while sanctions may also apply through ownership or control of a listed person or entity.
14 Record timeline
Dates in the bulk record
- Confirmation statement
Latest confirmation statement made up to this date
- Accounts
Latest accounts made up to this date
- Incorporation
Company incorporated
15 Provenance
Sources for this profile
Identity, address, status, dates, SIC, previous names and mortgage totals.
Statutory supplier-payment reports linked by the exact source-supplied Companies House number.
Global legal identities linked through Companies House registration authority RA000585.
Annual statement summaries linked by exact source company number.
Current and ceased significant-control records joined by exact company number.
Daily England and Wales extract matched only by the official company registration number.
Daily CCNI export with company links only where the source number resolves unambiguously.
Complete FCDO list checked by exact UK-linked business registration number.
Procurement parties checked only through exact GB-COH identifiers.
Licensed subset linked only by exact Companies House number.
Financial regulation and licences.
Companies House, Charity Commission, OSCR and UK Sanctions List information is public-register data. BritDB reproduces and organises it with source-specific limits; official external links are kept on the dedicated source pages.