Posts Tagged ‘Seachill’
Five Star Fish site for sale at £3.75m
THE 2 Sisters Food Group has put its Five Star Fish Factory in Grimsby on the market – with an asking prices of £3.75 million. The 9,200 square metre site was a major producer of coated fish for Marks & Spencer until April this year, when the parent company decided it should close with the…
Read MoreSamherji buys major UK fish supplier
SAMHERJI, Iceland’s largest fishing company, has bought Collins Seafood, a major UK marketing and distribution company. Based at Newton Aycliffe in County Durham, where it employs 30 people, Collins sells and distributes frozen seafood in central and northern England. Many of its customers are fish and chip outlets. The sale figure has not been disclosed,…
Read MoreSaucy Fish lift for frozen sales
THE award winning Saucy Fish brand has given frozen seafood sales a huge boost in many of Britain’s best known supermarkets. The business, owned by Seachill, said today that since launching into frozen last year and securing listings with Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Ocado and Amazon Fresh, some 69 per cent of its spend has been incremental…
Read More80 news jobs as Seachill expands Grimsby site
SEACHILL is planning to invest in a significant expansion to its Grimsby production site as it gears up for continued growth. The company became part of Hilton Foods last year in an £80 million deal and has recently submitted a planning application to North East Lincolnshire (Grimsby) Council to build new production facilities. Seachill is…
Read MoreSeafood summit nets Saucy Fish chief
THE boss of Seachill, the company behind the successful Saucy Fish brand, will be one of the main speakers at this year’s UK seafood summit, when he will talk about innovation and consumer messages. Simon Smith (pictured) joins a line-up of from trade, industry and science for the October event, where topics covered will include…
Read MoreUS seafood imports at record high
AMERICANS ate more imported seafood last year than at any time in the past, new figures show. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which monitors and regulates the nation’s fishing and aquaculture sector, said seafood imports hit record levels in 2017. The total volume was six billions pounds, worth $21.5 billion. Conversely, the US exported…
Read MoreScale of Five Star losses revealed
FIVE Star Fish, the seafood business which is threatening to close its Grimsby site with a potential loss of almost 400 jobs, has reported a significant increase in its losses despite a large rise in turnover. The secondary white fish processor is a wholly owned subsidiary of Boparan Holdings, which deals mainly in poultry under the 2Sisters Food…
Read MoreGrimsby ‘will meet Brexit challenges’
THE head of Grimsby Fish Market said the port has the ability and determination to overcome whatever challenges leaving the European Union next year will throw up. In a spirited defence of the local industry, Martyn Boyers, who is also chief executive of Grimsby Port East, called on the political establishment to start delivering on Brexit.…
Read MoreBarnier urged to get tough with UK on fish
BRITAIN will not face an easy ride from the EU on its seafood exports unless it agrees to catch exchange deals, reports from Brussels suggest. The EU\’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, warned on a trip to Denmark at the weekend that the UK fishing industry could lose access to European markets if EU fishermen were denied…
Read MoreYoung seafood leader to star at forum
GRIMSBY based Seachill, along with its Saucy Fish brand, is to be the lead sponsor at the 13th annual North Atlantic Seafood Forum (NASF), taking place in Bergen, Norway, next week. The summit, which runs from March 6-8, is the world’s largest seafood business conference, attended by around 900 seafood executives from 35 countries. Seachill is taking a ten-strong team to…
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