- CEO
- Debashish Sen
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Food: meat/fish/dairy
- Address
- Kolkata India
- IPO Date
- Aug 11, 2025
- Business
- Essex Marine Ltd. is an India-based seafood processing and export enterprise engaged in the procurement, processing, freezing, cold chain warehousing, and international distribution of marine and aquaculture seafood products. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, the company supplies commercial seafood importers, wholesalers, and institutional food service providers across global markets under its proprietary Essex brand. The company operates across distinct product and service categories, comprising frozen marine finfish, including silver pomfret, black pomfret, ribbon fish, croaker, Indian mackerel, sole fish, eel, and reef cod; aquaculture and wild-caught crustaceans, specializing in value-added, raw, and frozen Litopenaeus vannamei (whiteleg shrimp) and black tiger shrimp; cephalopod products, including whole, cleaned, tube, and ring-cut squid, cuttlefish, and octopus; and temperature-controlled preservation and commercial cold storage services operated through its De Sens Cold Storage facility in Kolkata and its integrated seafood processing complex in Shankarpur, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, equipped with plate freezers, blast freezers, and cold storage chambers. Geographically, Essex Marine Ltd. exports its products across Asia, Europe, North America, and the Middle East, serving major export destinations including China, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, Belgium, the United States, and Israel. In recent major corporate and operational developments, the company completed a structural reorganization in February 2025, transitioning from a private entity, Essex Marine Private Limited (originally incorporated as Rajsen Impex Private Limited), to a public limited company. In August 2025, Essex Marine Ltd. completed its Initial Public Offering on the BSE SME platform (BSE: ESSEX / 544475), raising approximately INR 23.01 crore via a fresh issue of 4.262 million equity shares to finance working capital needs, enhance cold chain logistics infrastructure, and support the expansion of its seafood processing capacity.