Today, Thai Union announced its intention to repurchase shares up to 4.19 percent of the company’s paid-up capital as of April 1, 2020. Over six months, Thailand's biggest canned tuna producer...
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EU Tuna Processors On Top Of Coronavirus Outbreak
The two European countries affected the most by the coronavirus pandemic are Italy and Spain, which are also home to the largest tuna industries on the continent. Sources from the two...
Functional Canned Tuna To Treat Cardiovascular Diseases
A Spanish researcher has developed a functional canned tuna that helps increase the intake of its natural nutrients such as omega 3 and helps prevent and treat cardiovascular diseases....
Tuna Industry Owes A Great Deal To Women
In honor of International Women’s Day, which took place yesterday, Atuna wants to highlight the high contribution women have made to the tuna business since its inception. The reality is that...
Suspected Food Poisoning Hits 175 Grupo Calvo Workers
At least 175 employees from Grupo Calvo’s La Unión plant in El Salvador were treated for a medical emergency after they showed serious signs of possible food poisoning after consuming meals in...
Maldives Processors Blame Coronavirus For Low EU Purchases
The Maldives Seafood Processors and Exports Association (MSPEA) have pointed out the coronavirus as the reason for the decline of tuna purchase in European countries. It claimed that yellowfin...
American Samoa Tuna Industry At Cliff’s Edge
On February 15, PBS News Hour Weekend ran the program ‘Sea of obstacles imperil American Samoa’s tuna industry’ highlighting the issues that local fishermen who supply tuna to the StarKist...
Thai Union Donates Canned Tuna To Wuhan
Thai Union China has donated 52,000 cans of King Oscar tuna to the city of Wuhan, which has been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 viral outbreak. The first shipment of canned products was...
Callipo Reports Steady Sales Growth In Organic Jars
The positive trend in Callipo Conservo Alimentari’s turnover since 2013 continued in 2019 with the company seeing an increase of ten percent. Last year, the Italian-based tuna and seafood...
Albo Honors Its Retired Cannery Women
In December, Spanish cannery Albo honored a group of retired women who used to work in its canneries. The 2019 Women Award was presented to these ex-workers, some of whom visited the current...
Two Workers Injured After Crane Falls At Tuna Company
Two men were injured in an accident while they were loading fishing nets to be transferred to a seiner. The incident occurred this week inside a tuna company on Gabriel Leyva...
Samoan Tuna Cleaners Earn 5 Times More In Pago Pago
The government of the Independent Republic of Samoa has announced an increase in the minimum wage which will come into effect on January 1, 2020. However, even with the rise,...
FDA Warns Indonesian Tuna Firm Over Flawed HAACP
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning letter to an Indonesian tuna company, PT. SIG ASIA, stating the firm’s HACCP plan and its monitoring records have...
Cape Verdian Investment To Boost Frescomar’s Fillet Production
Cape Verdian tuna processing plant Frescomar expects that the investment contract with the local government will result in a 20 percent increase in its production by 2020. The...
Complaints About Stench Of Pioneer Canning In Ghana
A member of the Ghanaian parliament is adamant about confronting a tuna cannery plant in his constituency due to the stench it produces, which extends for several kilometers. Daniel...
New Tuna Processing Plant For Solomon Islands
The Bina Harbor tuna processing plant project is a top priority project for 2020 as was revealed by the Solomon Ministry for Finance and Treasure. Bina Harbor is an area in Malaita Province of...
Venezuelan Tuna Workers Have Nothing To Do
Over the last decade, tuna production and processing operations in Venezuela have been going downhill. Workers at the Fextun plant in Sucre claim that since the government assumed the...
Alliance Select Sells Indonesian Cannery & US Business
Philippine listed seafood company, Alliance Select Foods International Inc., has announced the sales of its Indonesian assets and its US subsidiary in order to focus on...
Yamaki To Expand Maldivian Katsuobushi Operation
The Japanese company Yamaki is discussing new investment opportunities in the Maldives, where through its subsidiary Addu Katsuobushi Private Limited (YMAK), the corporation produces...
Conservas Garavilla Becomes Bolton Food España
The Spanish company Conservas Garavilla will become Bolton Food España, reflecting the name of the Italian multinational which has held 100 percent of the shares...