The Dongwon Group has announced that the merger between Dongwon Industries (the owner of StarKist) and Dongwon Enterprise is set to continue. This comes a day after the number of stock...
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TUNA 2022 Kicks Off In Bangkok Next Week
The INFOFISH World Tuna Conference 2022, which will be held at the Shangri- La Hotel, Bangkok, has finalized all preparatory arrangements' and is ready to kick off on Tuesday. The event's...
Mexico Combats Canned Tuna Price Inflation With New Deal
Amid the sky-high food prices in the country, Mexico has announced the new Opening Agreement against inflation. The plan is to contain the rise in the value of basic groceries, including...
Japan’s Sushi Restaurant Sector Rocked By Scandal
In Japan, conveyor-belt sushi is big business, and the chief executive of one of the biggest restaurant chains in the country was arrested for stealing trade secrets like the pricing of fish....
Milk & Eggs Cost More Than Ever But Canned Tuna Remains Affordable
Food price inflation is the number one concern for most Americans and most households are paying an arm and a leg for basic goods. A public poll showed that one-third of Republicans (GOP) and...
Major European Processors’ Insatiable Appetite For Pre-Cooked Loins
Frozen pre-cooked loins imported into the EU slightly increased in the first six months of the year with demand from major processing markets growing. Not surprising, Spanish canners were the...
US Wins Over Pacific Nations With USD 810 Million Aid
In a bid to woo Pacific Island states to its side, the US committed USD 810 million in financial aid to the region. This includes the 10-year USD 600 million it had already pledged, which...
European Canners Raise Loins H1 Trade To EUR 547 Million
Demand for frozen pre-cooked loins is only expanding in the EU, as the canners purchased five percent more than they did in the first half of this year compared to 2021. The volume imported...
#Goodforwho? Greenpeace Vs Bumble Bee
Greenpeace activists displayed a banner reading #GoodForWho during a football game at a stadium next to Bumble Bee's headquarters in San Diego. The organization says, “They call on Bumble Bee...
John West Recalls One “Tuna Pot” Due To Mislabeling
John West UK is recalling a batch of On The Go Indian Tuna Rice salad because of mislabeling. The ingredients soy and wheat (gluten) are not listed on the product's label. The salad has been...
Thai Canners Experiencing Plunging US Orders
In the first half of this year, US canned tuna imports slowed to the lowest level in five years. Nearly all suppliers lost some of their business in this market but Thai processors were the...
Manta’s Skipjack Price Steady At High Levels As Veda Nears End
The first EPO fishing closure, which forces around half the purse seiners to stay at port for at least 72 days, is nearing its end next week. The inevitably lower raw material supply that the...
Innovative Marketing Will Help Tuna Paradise Feed The Poor
A Thai tuna factory selling tuna steaks in retail boxes wants to work alongside its customers to feed the poor. The company, Tuna Paradise, sells ten-pound boxes (4.5 kg) of tuna to...
American Senator Receives His Tuna Lunch By Drone
American Senator, Mark Warner, was amazed when Wings delivered him a can of tuna by drone at his visit to the company's site in Christiansburg, Virginia, last Friday. The company created an...
Thai Pet Food Sales In US Take Off
Thai processors managed to grow their pet food business globally in the first six months of the year and delivered nearly one-quarter more canned products than during the same period last...
Ecuadorian Tuna Sector Upset Over Mexican President’s Remarks
Trade agreement discussions between Mexico and Ecuador have been a protracted affair with both nations not seeing eye to eye on canned tuna imports. The recent claims by the Mexican President...
Ecuador Doubles Its H1 Shipments To Spain
Spanish imports of canned and pouched tuna in the first half of 2022 increased to the second highest volume in five years. Business with Ecuadorian processors doubled, bringing it back to...
President Asks Mexican Tuna Tycoons Not To Raise Consumer Prices
CEOs of Mexico's major tuna processors, as well as heads of other food companies, were invited by the country's president for lunch at the National Palace this week to discuss the increasing...
Controversial Dismissal Of PNA’s Long-Serving Commercial Manager Brownjohn
The long-serving Commercial Manager of the PNA Office, Maurice Brownjohn, has been let go from his role in what he considers a very “disappointing” treatment of him. The office is based in the...
Cost Of Steel Cans To Drop, 10 Percent Capacity Offline
Recently, tin and steel prices have dropped dramatically due to weakening global demand for steel. It is a welcome relief to the canned tuna sector which has been facing rising costs for...