Major US canned tuna firm, StarKist, has requested that the US District Court of Massachusetts dismisses a trademark infringement lawsuit that has been filed against the company. In July this...
Trade
Free Trade To Boost Ecuador & China’s Tuna Business?
The Ecuadorian government is looking at the possibilities of forging a trade agreement with China, and tuna is mentioned as one of the priority product lines, as the nation works to get more...
Phil Canners Push Others Aside In EU Market
Processors in the Philippines are still driving attractively priced canned tuna into the EU market, knocking out competition in their path, as they secure one of the strongest volume rises. In...
US Price Fixing Suits On Hold To Collect More Evidence
Piling civil suits against the US Big 3, alleging of price fixing conspiracy, have been put on hold once again by the US Department of Justice (DOJ), as it continues to collect evidence in its...
Govt. Tries To Eliminate Concerns Over Tsukiji Move
In a bid to gain public trust over the safety of a possible move for the famous Tsukiji tuna market, Tokyo’s government is inviting people to tour the new Toyosu site, where contamination...
UK Retailers Paying High Prices For Sustainable Tuna
Overall demand among UK buyers for canned tuna has slipped notably, but a rising call for products carrying a sustainability claim, is seeing importers willing to pay out higher prices to get...
Shanghai Kaichuang Issuing New Shares To Raise Cash
Shanghai Kaichuang, the Chinese owner of Spanish canned tuna brand Albo, will make a private placement of more than 38 million new shares to around 10 separate investors. The move will be...
Thai Canners Face Tough Competition In German Market
Thai packers are losing out to strong competition from Philippine and Vietnamese tuna canners, seeing their foothold in the German market shrink further, and they’ll need a new approach in...
Spanish Brands Push For Stronger Online Sales
Spanish tuna firms are keen to increase their online sales, and are now seeking an agreement with French e-commerce site Vente-privee. As companies in the country have stated that they are...
Spanish Albo Gives Boost To Chinese Owner, But Not Enough
Despite strong sales and profit results posted for Spanish Albo in the first half of this year, the numbers are not quite positive enough to keep the brand’s fairly new Chinese owner out of...
Trump To Drop Free Trade With S.Korea: Any Impact On Tuna?
President Trump is reported to be preparing for the US to withdraw from a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with South Korea, a major tuna catching nation, and such an exit is said to be likely to...
Bumble Bee & StarKist Both Replace Price Fixing Legal Teams
Both Bumble Bee and StarKist have replaced the firms that are representing them in the snowballing price fixing case regarding the US canned tuna market. In what’s described as a shake-up of...
More Japanese Choosing Beef Over Fresh Tuna Sashimi
Sashimi and other types of fresh tuna have long been the most popular forms of the fish in one of the biggest tuna consuming nations in the world; Japan. Now however, buyers in the country are...
Tuna Surge Pushes Spanish Exports To Decade High
A steep climb in tuna trade has been a major driver in the overall canned seafood shipments from Spanish exporters reaching a decade high this year, both in volume and value. In the first half...
Ecuador’s Canners Battle Back Into EU Market
After significant slumps earlier on, canners in Ecuador have fought themselves back into the EU market, making notable year on year gains in the first half of 2017. A modest yet solid four...
EU Canned Imports Recover & Hit 3 Year High
European canned tuna buyers have upped their purchases of canned tuna considerably in 2017’s first half, taking the total to the highest seen in the last three years, and Spanish canners have...
Bolton Profit Gets Firm Push From Spanish Brands
Having a growing stake in the Spanish canned tuna market has pushed Italian Bolton Group’s profits up almost 10 percent for full year 2016, the firm has announced. In April 2015, Bolton...
More Civil Price Fixing Suits Pile On Big 3
Three new civil lawsuits have been filed that accuse the Big 3 canned tuna brands of colluding to fix the prices of their products for over a decade, adding to the large number of cases now...
Thai Canners Still Struggling In EU Market
Processors in Thailand are struggling to reach the EU market at the same pace that has been seen in the past, with a significant slump in the volume of canned tuna sent to the bloc so far this...
Court Denies Industry Challenge On US Fraud & Traceability Rule
A federal court has upheld the US government’s Seafood Import Monitoring Program (SIMP), introduced to ensure traceability of fisheries products entering the US market and to stamp out fraud...