Posts Tagged ‘Scottish Sea Farms’
SalMar ends 2017 with Q4 high
SALMAR, one of the world\’s largest salmon farming companies, announced impressive results for the fourth quarter of 2017, with a group operating profit (EBIT) of NOK 707.2 million, up from NOK 557 million for the same period in 2016. Yesterday’s announcement follows an equally strong performance for the third quarter of last year when the EBIT…
Read MoreSalmon sector drives Gael Force growth
AQUACULTURE supply company Gael Force Group is to invest more than £1 million in an expansion and innovation programme this year following record growth in 2017. Last year, the Inverness based firm increased turnover by almost 45 per cent and added 50 new staff to its now 200-strong team – growth driven mostly by orders…
Read MoreRecord contract for boat builder
APPLECROSS based firm Northwind Engineering has begun work on its largest contract to date, to build a new state-of-the-art landing craft worth £700,000. Not only is the landing craft – for Scottish Sea Farms – the engineering firm’s biggest project in terms of value, it’s also its biggest in terms of physical size too, measuring…
Read MoreSalmon farmer’s £100m boost for Scotland
SCOTTISH Sea Farms announced today that it spent more than £100 million buying goods and services from local businesses in 2017. This was up £13.9 million on 2016 and is driven by a long standing company policy to ‘buy Scottish’ wherever possible. The £100 million represents 85 per cent of Scottish Sea Farms’ total spend…
Read MoreNew SAIC chair will be ‘great asset’
THE Scottish Aquaculture Innovation Centre (SAIC) has announced that David Gregory will be its new chairman. He takes up his post on March 1, and replaces Jack Perry. Gregory brings more than four decades’ experience in the food chain, from agriculture to aquaculture, fisheries to food production, and retail to food service. He has also had close…
Read MoreTop apprentices make awards shortlist
AQUACULTURE finalists Scott Forder and Alan Tangny have been shortlisted for Lantra Scotland’s Land-based and Aquaculture Learner of the Year Awards. Scott, aged 26 from Kinlochewe, has been doing a Modern Apprenticeship in Aquaculture through Inverness College UHI, while working for Marine Harvest. He first became interested in salmon farming through family and friends who…
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