John West Australia has taken home a global sustainability award, a first by an Australian organization. The firm was recently awarded the Best Engagement Campaign at...
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“Tunas Ecuador” Brand Should Promote Industry
A plan to develop unified branding for Ecuador’s tuna products has been announced by the nation’s Foreign Trade Minister; in a move that is hoped will increase international recognition and...
Isabel Restyles Label Towards Rio Mare
Conservas Garavilla has announced that it has implemented a complete restyling of its complete canned seafood range. The new style which is introduced as “Renewed on the Outside – Improved on...
Calvo Aims To Triple Sales Growth
The Calvo Group is expecting to close 2016 with a turnover of about EUR 860 million, 9 percent more than last year. Last year the sales of Spain’s market leader in canned tuna increased with 3...
Princes Expands MSC Range With Pacifical Tuna
UK company Princes has announced that it will add products with the MSC ecolabel to its range of tuna and other seafood products, becoming the first brand or supermarket in the nation to...
Tuna Smugglers Caught Red Handed
Smugglers have been found carrying 1,438 cans of tuna and 6.6 tons of other fish in Cucuta, Colombia, at the border with Venezuela. The tax and customs police seized the fish with a total...
Clover Leaf: Consumers Want To Know Where Their Tuna Comes From
Canadian brand, Clover Leaf, has today launched a website that allows its customers to trace the supply chain for their cans of tuna, in a move to distance itself from environmental and...
Thai Union Completes US Buy-out
Thai Union Group has completed the buyout of Tri-Union Frozen Products (TUFP), which operates as Chicken of the Sea, shelling out around THB 1.6 billion (USD 46.2 million) for 18 percent, to...
How Thai Union’s King Oscar Rules Norway
Seafood sustainability claims are slowly but steadily becoming more and more present on Norwegian supermarket shelves. However, among ambient tuna, the story seems to be a different one. In...
Petit Navire To Enter Chilled Tuna Business
Thai Union owned French brand Petit Navire, which is known for its canned seafood product range, will look to diversify its products by introducing a range of chilled seafood. The range, which...
Philippines Exports Surge To Norway And Swiss Wishful Thinking?
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) states signed a free trade agreement with the Philippines in April this year and the country has high hopes when it comes to an increase in tuna...
Maersk Heavily Expanding Reefer Container Fleet
Maersk Line, the world’s largest shipping company, is expanding its reefer fleet with a massive container investment. Maersk Line has ordered 14,800 new reefer containers in 2016 adding to the...
Japan: Change In Consumption Affects Price
There has been a change in the price of bigeye tuna in Japan, with lean cuts of the fish approaching the same cost as the traditionally desirable fatty cuts, in a development that could...
UK Tabloid Trashes John West For Spoiled Can
An unlucky teenager got an unpleasant surprise when she opened a can of John West tuna, discovering it contained maggots, a very rare incident when it comes to canned tuna. The controversial...
Philippines Unable To Maintain EU Growth
Last year was a positive one for the Philippine’s EU tuna trade, the first year which the country had GSP+ and duty free trade with the bloc. But the first half of this year the country...
Aldi Determined To Win UK Price War
Germany discounter, Aldi, is willing to operate at a loss in the UK and has announced, “Regardless of what competitors may say or do, our price advantage will be maintained and our customers...
Calvo’s European Division Gets New CEO
Major Spanish tuna brand Calvo has appointed Alberto Encinas Lastra as General Director for the firm’s European Division. He is replacing Enrique Orge, who has been in the position since 2012...
Could StarKist’s “Presidential Campaign” Backfire?
With yesterday’s US presidential debate between Trump and Clinton fresh in mind, another election “candidate” is facing scrutiny. The “presidential candidacy” of US tuna brand Starkist’s...
Howgate Leaves IPNLF
Emily Howgate is taking a career break and departing her role as the International Coordinating Director at the International Pole & Line Foundation (IPNLF). Howgate has spoken at several...
Thailand’s EU Sent Tonnages Slip
It’s been well documented that Thai canners have been suffering from a lack of end market demand from some of their biggest regional customers, and the EU is no exception. In the first half of...