Grupo Calvo, Spain’s leading canned tuna firm, is taking its recent commitment to focus on the Latin American market seriously, and is pushing shoppers to become familiar with the brand’s name...
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Discounters Outstrip Canned Tuna Competition Once Again
German-owned discount chains Aldi and Lidl have once again proved their worth in the canned tuna category, as an established consumer testing magazine has ranked their references well above...
US Tuna Fleet Investors Venture Into IT Market
A US firm with current investments in the tuna fishing industry and the vegetable based protein products market, has further diversified its portfolio, making new investments into the IT...
First Signs Of Skipjack Price Steadying
After rapidly rising for weeks, the first signs of a steadying Bangkok skipjack price have now emerged, with canneries working on first exhausting their current cold storage inventories,...
EU Closing The Gap On Important Duty Free Deal
The EU has thrown increasing support behind its most important canned tuna supplier, pushing for the ratification of a key multilateral trade deal. It hopes to close a possible gap that could...
Manta SKJ Price Climbs In Tracks Of Bangkok
Leaving just a small gap between the Bangkok market, the whole round skipjack price in Manta, Ecuador has pushed up once again, in a situation of slow catches and low cannery production rates....
Slashed Tuna Shipments Heading To North Europe
After strong growth in 2014 raised the region’s canned tuna imports by almost a third, 2015 has not seen the trend continue for Scandinavia, as the area’s appetite for the product has seen a...
Spanish Tuna Bucks The Seafood Trend
Described as Spain’s flagship seafood product, canned tuna shipments saw a hike of five percent in volume last year, however struggled to keep up the value pace with other fish exports from...
Alliance To Snatch Bigger Asian Market Share
Alliance Select Foods International has announced plans to strengthen its footing in the East Asian market by extending marketing activities in Japan. The move is hoped to increase its tuna...
Carrefour Italy’s 360° Commitment To MSC
Carrefour, one of the world’s largest hypermarket chains, has announced its commitment to supplying its Italian customers with products bearing MSC certification and labeling, a pledge that...
Big Bets On TU To “Outperform” The Market
As Thai Union’s share price shoots to some of the highest heights of the last five years, analysts set confident bets on performance, with consensus recommendation stating that the firm’s...
It’s Not Over Yet: WTO Dispute In Arbitration
In the next stage of a long-running case, the US-Mexico dispute over dolphin-safe tuna labelling has now advanced to arbitration, with the US unsurprisingly objecting to the USD 472 million...
BKK Skipjack Price: Just The Start Of Strong Rally?
Yet another hike in the Bangkok skipjack price has taken the global benchmark market (SKJ1.8:BKK) to touch levels that haven’t been reached since September 2014. The most recent inching up...
Investors Sue Alliance Management On Fraud
A group of minority investors have filed charges against former and current managers and directors of Alliance Select Foods International, one of the Philippines’ leading tuna processing...
EU Import Shift A Big Win For Philippines
While less imported tuna entered the EU market as a whole last year, not every supplying nation suffered a slump in deliveries. In fact, when looking at canned tuna stats alone, Philippine...
Mexico Wants $472m From US On Dolphin-Safe Dispute
Mexico plans to impose a huge USD 472 million sanction against the US, following the long-running dispute between the two nations over the US’ discrimination of Mexican canned tuna, seeking...
The Market With 30+ Tuna Brands And Rocketing Sales
Shoppers in Costa Rica are spoilt for choice when it comes to putting canned tuna in their basket, and remain the fourth highest per capita tuna consumers in the world. While most national...
Skipjack Price Jumps Again On Slow Supply
Poor catching in WCPO fishing grounds is ultimately causing low whole round skipjack supply in the Bangkok market place, as price takes another leap. Now at USD 1,500 per ton (frozen whole...
Eastern EU Markets Continue Showing Growth
During a year in which overall European imports of canned tuna dropped by five percent, Eastern European nations bucked the trend, and as a region was the only area in the EU to see continued...
Century Getting A Slice Of Other Asian Markets
An outright leader in its domestic tuna market, Century Pacific Group is working on forward integration, with the aim of breaking into other Asian markets. While its main focus has always been...