All Fish articles – Page 68
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The lucky 13 category winners
Biscuits and Cakes UBUK It was praised for its category management and service levels. It has strong account management and excellent NPD, says one buyer. Meat, fish & Poultry Lyons Seafood The company's...
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Price Basket - 12th April 2008
Meat and fish prices continue their inexorable rise with a third consecutive increase, making the basket the most expensive it has been since the survey began more than three years ago. Beef, lamb and pork prices were all up, with only whole chicken...
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Case study - Compagnie des Peches St. Malo
Comapêche is on a mission to save Britain from bad crabsticks. Instead it wants us to eat a more sophisticated product made from surimi, an Asian white fish product that is pulverised to become rubbery. The company fishes in the North Atlantic using...
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Fury as Marks drops deli product supplier
Marks & Spencer has been accused of putting 183 workers' jobs in jeopardy by switching suppliers of deli fish products.The Unite trade union said this week that the management at the Coldwater Seafood plant in Redditch had begun a 90-day...
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No Catch caught out in treacherous water
When organic farmed cod operation Johnson Seafarms went into administration last month, the aquaculture industry drew a collective gasp. The company's brand No Catch was hailed as a blueprint for the UK's fledgling cod farming industry...
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Marfrig buys UK importer CDB Meats
CDB Meats has been bought by Brazilian beef producer and exporter Marfrig .UK importer and distributor CDB supplies the retail sector with canned corned beef, canned ready meals and tuna in cans and pouches. CDB supplies branded...
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Talking shop - 15th March 20008
Describing aquaculture as a dirty industry is inaccurate and fails to reflect its role in providing healthy food, says Phil MacMullen, Seafish head of environment. A recent Sunday newspaper article suggested fish farming was "the biggest ecological...
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insight - fish fingers/cakes
AGE PROFILE of fish fingers/cakes consumers Children 0-1029% 11-1611% Male 17-3410% 35-6413% 65+4% Female 17-3412% 35-6415% 65+6% Info: Usage overview of fish fingers/cakes. Year ending November 2007. In-home/lunchbox consumption Sales of fish...
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Price Basket
Meat and fish prices continue to creep up slowly, but generous special offers are keeping rises to a minimum. In the four weeks since the previous survey, just 1.6% has been added to the cost of the basket, but it is now more expensive than it...
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Barramundi sales boosted by fillets
Sales of farmed barramundi in Waitrose have soared following a switch from whole fish to fillets.Sales have risen more than fivefold since Waitrose switched in November, said supplier New Forest Barramundi, because fillets were easier to...
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insight - tuna
AGE PROFILE of canned tuna consumers Children 0-1014% 11-169% Male 17-3412% 35-6418% 65+4% Female 17-3415% 35-6421% 65+7% Info: Usage overview of canned tuna. Year ending August 2007. In-home/lunchbox consumption Canned tuna was eaten on 731 million...
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Administration for No Catch
Organic farmed cod operation Johnson Seafarms went into administration this week with debts of £40m. No Catch - claimed to be the world's first organic cod farm - had listings in Tesco and selected Sainsbury's but sales of just £3m last year....
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No Catch in administration
Organic cod supplier No Catch has fallen into administration.The business, which has listings in Tesco, Sainsbury's, Morrisons and independent retailers, went into administration yesterday, with debts of £40m, according to the Financial...
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Young's: let's teach people to love coley
Coley could be the next big growth area in fish if it was marketed more effectively, according to leading fish producer Young's Seafood.The fish, which is dull white in colour and from the same family as cod, is currently mostly sold as...
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John West tipped for major chilled launch
John West is plotting the launch of a chilled range later this year in a bid to generate higher-margin sales and create a strong branded proposition in an own label-dominated category, The Grocer has learnt.It is understood that the...
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Letter of the week - Blythman is too gloomy about fish
Phillip MacMullen - Head of environemnt, Seafish (Sea Fish Industry Authority) Making sure the fish we eat in Britain is from healthy stocks is becoming imperative to retailers and consumers and it's certainly encouraging to see good examples...
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Now or never for global fish stocks
Without radical action our favourite fish will disappear from dinner plates. Ministers should listen to environmentalists, not trawlermen. Top chefs Raymond Blanc and Tom Aikens are joining forces with Greenpeace at Old Billingsgate ...
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The cod dilemma: to eat or not to eat?
Sir; The EU decision in December to raise the North Sea cod quota by 11% was seen by the fisheries sector as a vindication of their observation that cod stocks are improving, while it was heralded as the death knell for North Sea cod by...
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WWF claims EU deal is jeopardising cod stocks
The WWF has slated the EU Council of Ministers for not including compulsory measures in the final fisheries agreement thrashed out in Brussels in December. The WWF warned North Sea cod were still under threat and criticised EU ministers...
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Climbing the ladder - Martyn Evans
What was your first job? An apprentice at Beckets Well Trout Farm in Sevenoaks, Kent. Give us a quick run-down of your career to date. I went to college in Scotland to learn about fish farming. I then took a job at Kimbridge in the Test Valley,...