Spanish firm Frinsa, one of Europe’s largest manufacturers of canned tuna, is taking a serious look at how modern technology can benefit business in 2016, and has expanded its online shopping...
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Thai Union Puts Stop To Hiring Temporary Workers
Thai Union has announced that it will no longer hire temporary workers to clean seafood products within its canneries. Instead, employees will only be hired on a full time basis so that they...
How Much Robot Technology Is In A Tuna Sandwich?
It’s hard to imagine a world without technology, but with fishing being one of the oldest professions in the world, how much have things changed, and aside from new boats, does modern...
EU Cold Stores Stuffed With Pre-Cooked Loins
Enabling EU canners to acquire frozen pre-cooked loins from anywhere in the world duty free, eight days was all it took for the yearly tuna loins Autonomous Tariff Quota (ATQ) for 2016 to be...
Alliance Buys Up Land In GenSan Processing Zone
Alliance Select has boosted its control of the owning company of a Philippine Foodport Processing Zone (FPZ), firming its grip on an area of General Santos City in which its tuna cannery...
New TU Partnership To Target The Health-Hungry Market
In its latest business merger Thai Union is appealing to the health-hungry market, as a New Year generally brings a new attitude in consumers to reach for those low calorie options. Canned...
Chinese Pour Millions Into Tuna Processing Plant
A Chinese fishing company, which last year announced a joint venture with US tuna supplier Tri Marine, has recently publicized plans to invest over USD 30 million to develop a new tuna...
StarKist Celebrates Another Year Of “Tuna Tax Break”
Just agreed by Congress, StarKist has announced its gratitude in the extension of the American Samoa economic development credit (30(A)), which is also more commonly referred to as the “tuna...
Thai Union: Punished By Stock Market
Turbulent prices have made 2015 a tough year for most in the tuna industry, but one company that has really been hitting the headlines over the past 12 months, on more than just its finances,...
TU Takover To Fuel Expansion In Germany
Thai Union may have just secured the deal it needs to powerfully penetrate John West branded products into the German market, getting its hands on a majority share in the nation’s largest...
Tri Marine’s Ex-Partner Puts Operations For Sale
An African based tuna loin processing plant that formerly held an exclusive deal with Tri Marine International, is now up for sale, states the owning company, Wananchi Marine Products. The...
StarKist Buried Under Millions Of Legal Claims
A new world record has been set for the highest number of claims ever made in the history of class action lawsuits, as the final approval hearing of StarKist’s under-filled tuna cans drew to a...
Good Laugh: Fanny Makes Fishy Fingers A Thing Of The Past
A brand new product is set to hit the Latin American market in the coming weeks, as Fanny, a leading Peruvian tuna brand, has recently unveiled its new gadget; the Practifanny, a device with a...
EU Pays Training To Boost PNG Processing Future
Four tuna processing firms in PNG have been offering training placements to enable students at the country’s University of Technology to gain practical experience on the factory floor and in...
NGO Comes To Defense Of TU On Social Issues
Although stating that Thai Union has reacted too slowly in cleaning up any possible worker rights violations within primary processing facilities, one NGO has applauded the company for taking...
Alliance “Grossly Mismanaged” Say Minority Shareholders
Philippine tuna canner, Alliance Select, is today set to hold a stockholders’ meeting where concerns about the firm’s board will be raised, and disputes between directors and minority...
District Judge Sets Single Case Hearing On Price Fixing
The pile of lawsuits accusing major US canned tuna brands of conspiring to fix prices on the American market will be heard as one single case, and it was decided this week that this will take...
Chicken Of The Bee: Logo Troubles Behind Abandoned Merger?
Amid allegations of price fixing, an anti-trust investigation and slavery in the supply chain, Chicken of the Sea owner Thai Union called off its planned acquisition of Bumble Bee Foods, and...
Call For Investigation Of Ministers Who Blocked Tuna Imports
With production reportedly running at just 30 percent of capacity Spokesman for a tuna cannery workers’ union, Roger Palacios, stated that the government has been feeding the public...
TU Brings External Processing In-House, Reducing Risks
Thai Union has announced that it will be cutting ties with all external processors by the end of the year and will be moving its processing operations in-house to give the firm full control in...