The former CEO of Bumble Bee will be taking another shot at appealing his conviction of price-fixing shelf-stable tuna in the US in a couple of months. The Ninth Circuit Appeals Court has...
Tuna Processing News
Bankrupted Spanish Company Risks Being Torn To Pieces
The Spanish processing company, Thenaisie-Provoté, is being sold. The deadline to receive offers has already expired and only one came in, from the tuna brand Dani. If the deal is not closed,...
Worker Shortage In American Samoa StarKist Still Unresolved
StarKist’s American Samoan cannery is still in dire need of workers and the company has reached out to the territory’s government to help resolve this issue. The plant has been facing a worker...
Australia’s Last Tuna Cannery Set To Close As It Failed To Secure New Contracts
Australia’s last tuna cannery, Port Lincoln Tuna Processors (PLTP) is set to stop its operations by the middle of the year as it has failed to secure new clients for its facility. The plant...
COSI & Thai Union Settle USD 13 Million In Price-Fixing Case
Chicken of the Sea International (COSI) and its parent company, Thai Union Group, have arrived at a settlement amount with a group of Direct Purchasers in the class-action lawsuit brought...
Ecuadorian Tuna Worker Wants Diamond Back From Can
From time to time, canned tuna is known to have foreign objects which were missed during processing and the products need to be taken off the shelves. However, one lucky Ecuadorian tuna lover...
Dongwon Tuna Stew Brand Winning Korean Market
The Korean company Dongwon F&B launched a new brand a year ago, Yangban, which offers soups and stews containing tuna and other seafoods. During this short time span, the label has managed...
Mega Tuna Turns World Upside Down In New Commercial
Filipino tuna brand, Mega Tuna, has released a new online video commercial that is bizarre as well as funny. The advertisement unfolds as a woman is being startled by a lizard as she deeply...
Spanish Canners Clash With Authorities Over Nutri-Score Tuna Labeling
Hundreds of scientists across Europe are calling on the EU to make the Nutri-Score labeling system mandatory for all products, including canned tuna. The EU Commission is considering proposing...
Cat Parents Taste Entrées Of Their Pets
More than one-third of cat parents (37 percent) have tried their pet’s food or considered sampling it to make sure it tastes good, according to a survey conducted by US-based Blue Buffalo...
StarKist Samoa Desperate To Attract Workers To Keep Operations Running
Despite great efforts by American Samoa’s StarKist plant to recruit new employees, its pool of workers remains insufficient to keep operations running as usual. In light of this, the company’s...
Tuna Non-Compliants Get Grace Period Prior To New Law In Mexico
The Mexican government is moving forward to regulate the content of soy and other ingredients in canned tuna sold nationally. Last year, a law was announced which was set to come into effect...
John West Australia Launches Innovative High Calcium Tuna Powder Cans
Do you want healthy bones? Then John West Australia Calcium Rich Tuna is the one for you or at least that is what the brand seems to be saying with the launch of its new product range....
StarKist Donates Tuna Products For Disaster Relief
This week, StarKist donated USD 25,000 worth of tuna products to support stricken families who were hard-hit by the recent winter storm in the Dallas metro area in Texas. The multi-million...
Online Conversational Analytics Helps Tuna Brands Grow Their Business
Tuna companies are using conversational analytics to track and measure consumers’ likes and dislikes as well as to discover new product possibilities. In the US, StarKist has been using this...
US Seafood Organization Wants Regulators To Enforce ‘Glazing’ Rules
The US needs its authorities to better enforce the regulation for glazing in the tuna and seafood industry, expressed a seafood trading body in the country. Recently, John Connelly, President...
Century Pacific’s Tuna Plant Saves Millions Of Liters Of Water
Philippine’s leading tuna firm, Century Pacific Food, announced that during 2020 it found a way to reduce its tuna facility's freshwater consumption by as much as 30 percent. In a press...
Spanish Company Will Increase Loins Production With New Plant
The Spanish company Actemsa has announced its intentions to build a new tuna loins plant in the country, according to its statement to the Confederation of Entrepreneurs of Galicia. José...
Judge: StarKist Violated Washington’s Consumer Protection By Fixing Prices
A federal judge in the state of Washington has declared that the US leading canned tuna company StarKist was guilty of price-fixing shelf-stable tuna from November 2011 through December 2013...
Thai Union Records Highest Net Profit Ever
Spurred by the great sales in the ambient tuna and seafood segment, global company Thai Union (TU) ended 2020 with exceptional financial performance. The company had a 20 percent year-on-year...
