Christine Blank, a veteran freelance writer and editor, covers all aspects of the seafood industry, from fishing to processing to selling and serving the final product. When she is not writing for SeafoodSource, Christine gets to taste scrumptious seafood dishes at U.S. restaurants for her food and travel blog, Flavorful Excursions (www.flavorfulexcursions.net). Christine loves to eat seafood of any kind, but lobster, crab and crawfish are among her favorites. In addition to SeafoodSource.com and SeaFood Business, Christine’s articles have been published in hundreds of leading magazines and newspapers, such as The New York Times, USA Today and Associated Press.
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Major U.S. seafood suppliers Trident Seafoods and Pacific Seafood are benefiting from recent partnerships they’ve established with U.S. sports teams, sports conferences, and entertainment venues.
Pacific Seafood Vice President of Marketing and Development Bill Hueffner told SeafoodSource his Clackamas, Oregon, U.S.A.-based firm believes sports partnerships to be an ideal match for its brand. In addition to the obvious benefits of reaching
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Quirch Foods is opening a new distribution center in Lebanon, Tennessee, U.S.A.
The new 65,000-square-foot facility, which will service customers in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Kentucky, is “strategically located” to cater to growing regional demand for seafood and other proteins, Quirch Foods said in a press release.
The Coral Gables, Florida, U.S.A.-based company is a distributor of fresh and frozen protein items sold through
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U.K. grocery chain Iceland Foods is using some fun new statistics on how Britons like to eat fish finger sandwiches to encourage shoppers to look for Marine Stewardship Council-certified seafood.
To settle the “age-old de-bait” on the ultimate fish finger recipe, Iceland surveyed 2,000 Britons and found that 42 percent say a fish finger sandwich is their sandwich of choice. However, 64 percent said fish finger sandwiches should be
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Overall food inflation declined to 9.9 percent in the United Kingdom in September 2023, down from 11.5 percent in August, while fresh food inflation fell from 11.6 percent in August to 9.6 percent in September, according to the British Retail Consortium and Nielsen IQ.
Inflation on ambient food items such as canned seafood decelerated to 10.4 percent in September, down from 11.3 percent in August, the lowest since November 2022. U.K. food
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Though around 88 percent of American restaurants are dishing out some sort of seafood, US Foods Vice President of Product Development and Innovation Stacey Kinkaid said that could be the floor – not the ceiling – of seafood’s prevalence on U.S. menus.
Data recently released by research firm Technomic confirms seafood remains very popular on restaurant menus across the U.S., but favorable trends could make it
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A bevy of ready-to-eat shrimp products is hitting the market, helped by plentiful supplies and American shoppers continuing to favor convenience.
Due to an import influx in recent years, U.S. wholesalers have been eager to move their shrimp inventory, but struggled earlier this year due to inflation peeling back consumer spending in both the retail and foodservice arenas. Recently, however, frozen retail shrimp prices have “finally started
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Catering to Americans seeking healthy, high-protein foods on the go, Thai Union Group-owned Chicken of the Sea is adding more flavored grab-and-go tuna products.
The El Segundo, California, U.S.A.-based shelf-stable seafood giant is launching three Chicken of the Sea Wild Caught Tuna packets in partnership with McCormick seasonings, as well as three Chicken of the Sea tuna and salmon flavors.
New flavors include: McCormick Lemon Garlic,
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Meal-kit maker Blue Apron entered into a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by The Wonder Group.
Founded in 2012, Blue Apron helped to remake at-home dining and food delivery habits in the U.S., but struggled after it went public in June 2017.
Wonder’s acquisition of Blue Apron is expected to create “a leading platform for mealtime, enhancing mealtime with choice, flexibility and convenience through two exceptional
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Arby’s and grocery chain H-E-B were added to the Association of Genuine Alaska Pollock Producers (GAPP) 2024 Partnership Program at the Wild Alaska Pollock Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., on 28 September.
The GAPP Partnership Program supports retail and foodservice companies in the U.S. and globally in their product promotion efforts, matching the partner’s marketing investment dollar for dollar.
Arby’s will use
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Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.-based Trident Seafoods landed a contract worth nearly USD 800,000 (EUR 757,000) to supply canned pink salmon to federal food and nutrition programs.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded the contract to Trident for 16,720 cases of canned salmon at USD 779,998 (EUR 738,000). Trident will deliver the salmon in November and December of this year.
In June, the USDA indicated it would make a large purchase of U.S.
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