American canned tuna firm, Bumble Bee, has strengthened its commercial team with a new Vice President of Customer Development and Strategy, Alex Drew. He has more than 20 years of experience...
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Dongwon Eager To Expand Its Pet Food Portfolio With New Deal
Dongwon F&B is moving strongly into the pet food sector partnering with BM Smile, an operator of a domestic pet product brand, Pethroom. With this move, Korea’s largest canned tuna company...
Nirsa To Provide Higher Education For Employees
The Ecuadorian processing company, Nirsa, has announced an agreement with the University of the Pacific to help employees looking to pursue technological studies. The program is already in...
Frinsa’s Turnover Figures Overtake Calvo’s For The First Time
Since the start of the pandemic, the Spanish consumption of canned tuna and other marine species has strongly increased. This has significantly influenced the financial performance of the...
China’s Pet Food Market Projected At 1.5 Billion By 2026
China’s pet food market has been growing significantly over the years due to an increase in ownership of these animals. Dry pet food that includes tuna takes up the biggest market share for...
Jealsa Invests In R&D With New Technology Center
Spanish processing company Jealsa is kicking off 2022 with a millionaire investment for the creation of a new Technology Center. This is after a challenging year in which its business was hit...
Spanish Mojama Sector Recovered Its Production After 2020 Drop
The mojama manufacturing sector in Spain reported that production boosted in 2021 compared to the previous year. But, the increase was not sufficient to bring it to pre-pandemic levels. The...
Canned Tuna Labeling Fraud Spotted In Colombia
A batch of Rey Del Mar canned tuna in Colombia has been found breaking the country’s health regulations regarding labeling. The National Food and Drug Surveillance Institute (Invima) alerted...
Tuna The Best Gift For Xmas?
Spanish processor Frinsa is convinced tuna has something special to offer for Christmas and launched a campaign like a fashion commercial - presenting the brand’s premium canned tuna in a...
American Samoa Canned Tuna The Only Real “American Made”?
Republican congresswoman Aumua Amata Radewagen urged the Biden Administration to uphold the Buy American policy when it comes to the purchase of canned tuna for the National School Lunch...
Los Angeles StarKist Cannery Risks Demolition
The StarKist canned tuna processing plant in Los Angeles, US, which has been closed and non-operational for almost 40 years is risking demolition. The Los Angeles Harbor Department...
Judge Sets Period When Price-Fixing Took Place In Tuna MDL
On the heels of declaring that StarKist’s guilty plea in a criminal investigation of price-fixing canned tuna means that the company is liable in a civil multi-district lawsuit (MDL), a...
Atunlo Invests Millions In Value-Added Tuna Production In Spain
Spanish processor, Atunlo, invested EUR 5.5 million in the automation of its plant in Cambados, Spain. This has tripled the company's manufacturing capacity of its range of value-added frozen...
Four American Samoa Cannery Workers Killed In Crash
Four StarKist employees were tragically killed in a car accident in front of the American Samoa cannery last Friday. Local media reports alleged it was caused by a drunk...
Japan’s Top Tuna Port Rocked By Skipjack Theft Scandal
Yaizu, a tuna port city in Shizuoka Prefecture of Japan has been rocked by a skipjack theft scandal and recent indictments for this crime include a former President of a well-known processor....
Buyers Deny StarKist Allegation That Judge Had Conflicts Of Interest In Tuna MDL
Counsel for plaintiffs in the multi-district lawsuit (MDL) over tuna price-fixing in the US has told a Californian Appeals Court that District Judge Jannis L. Sammartino did not break judicial...
Princes Partners With EDM For Bioplant, To Use Waste From Tuna Processing
International food and drink group, Princes, has partnered with a new bioplant venture, which is set to reduce carbon emissions from its Mauritius tuna processing sites by 8,650 M/T per...
StarKist vs US Govt: Judge Unimpressed With “Minced” Tuna Definition For Pouches
StarKist and the US government were at each other's throats again over high duties that the company has to pay for its tuna salad lunch pouches. One of the judges at the US Appeals court...
Bumble Bee CEO Says US Tuna Sector Should Think Like A Start-Up
Jan Tharp, CEO of Bumble Bee Seafoods, believes that the US tuna industry faces “a lack of relevancy with a younger consumer base” and the sector should think like a start-up to engage with...
EU Alerts: Dangerous Bacteria In Tuna Salad
There were seven notifications put out to the EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) in November. They ranged from incidents such as the presence of E. coli bacteria in a tuna product...
