Princes Foods has raised the stakes in its battle with Heinz subsidiary John West for supremacy in the UK's £170m canned tuna market.
It has spent £15m on a new cannery on the southern Indian Ocean island of Mauritius.
The plant will source raw material from the large French and Spanish purse seiner fleets in the region.
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Canned tuna: Princes' firepower in Mauritius
2001-02-24T00:00:00+00:00
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