Posts Tagged ‘Grieg Seafood’
Norway’s “big five” settle Canadian price fixing case
FIVE of Norway’s largest salmon breeders have entered into a multi-million Canadian dollar price fixing case settlement following a class action over the border in the United States. It follows a civil case involving claims brought by two Canadian consumers. It means the five, Mowi, SalMar, Grieg Seafood, Cermaq and the Lerøy Seafood Company, will…
Read MoreMore suspected ISA outbreaks reported
Grieg Seafood may have suffered a second outbreak of Infectious Salmon Anaemia in just over a month. The Norwegian Food Safety Authority has said there is suspicion of ISA at Grieg’s site at Vannfjorden in the Nordkapp municipality of Finnmark. A separate outbreak was reported and confirmed at another Grieg site in Finnmark at the…
Read MoreStrong as an Oxe
Six Fluggaboats ordered by Grieg Seafood Unst Inshore Services are currently building six Fluggaboats for Grieg Seafood. These boats are being used as fast work boats for their sites in Shetland. Four of these are 8.5 m twin OXE 150 hp forward cabin boats and two are single engine aft consol boats with deck area…
Read MoreGrieg \’winning biological battle\’ on Shetland
Grieg Seafood is continuing to get on top of its long running biological problems on Shetland, the company said in its 2020 second quarter results published today. Shetland harvest volumes at 3,770 tonnes, although slightly below guide, were 14 per cent up on the same period last year, while revenue rose by two per cent…
Read MoreGrieg \’winning biological battle\’ on Shetland
Grieg Seafood is continuing to get on top of its long running biological problems on Shetland, the company said in its 2020 second quarter results published today. Shetland harvest volumes at 3,770 tonnes, although slightly below guide, were 14 per cent up on the same period last year, while revenue rose by two per cent…
Read MoreGrieg strengthens sales and marketing team
Grieg Seafood has taken further steps to strengthen its marketing team by recruiting five new faces from other operations and fish farming companies. The company says it wants a stronger downstream team so it can position itself from being largely a supplier of salmon to a company that can become an innovation partner for selected…
Read MoreGrieg appoints Mowi executive to lead commercial strategy
GRIEG Seafood has appointed Mowi Norwegian sales director Erik Holvik to drive up the development and execution of the company’s downstream efforts and global commercial strategy. He joins the company, which has a major salmon farming operation on Shetland where it produces mainly for the UK market, as Chief Commercial Officer, taking up his new…
Read MoreGrieg Shetland sees harvest and prices increase
GRIEG Seafood has reported good price achievement at its Shetland operation during the start of this year. Announcing its 2020 first quarter results today, Shetland produced a harvest of 2,047 tonnes, up from 1,788 tonnes a year ago. And it achieved an EBIT or operational profit per kilogramme of NOK 6.80 compared with a LOSS…
Read MoreFarming ‘normal’ for now, says Grieg
BERGEN based Grieg Seafood said yesterday that its salmon farming operations were ‘running as normal’ during the coronavirus outbreak. The salmon was being harvested according to plan, said the company, adding that it would \’work relentlessly to keep our harvesting schedule also in the coming time’. Grieg, which farms in Norway, Scotland and Canada, said…
Read MoreScottish farmer dismissed from price fixing case
SCOTTISH Sea Farms has been released from a US class-action lawsuit that alleges Norwegian salmon companies colluded to fix salmon prices. The plaintiffs, led by seafood supplier Euclid Fish Company, voluntarily dismissed Scottish Sea Farms from the case, Intrafish reported yesterday. The case was brought last August against salmon farmers Mowi, Grieg Seafood, SalMar, and…
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