The Top 25 North American Seafood Suppliers – Vol. 2

2.) High Liner Foods

Headquarters: Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada

High Liner Foods has become one of the largest seafood companies in North America through a combination of internal growth and smart acquisitions. The company sold more than 200,000 pounds of seafood by sales volume in 2015.

With roots in the Atlantic Canadian fishery, High Liner now buys and sells globally. In recent years, it has completed four significant purchases – American companies FPI Limited, Viking Seafoods and American Pride Seafoods, and Icelandic Group’s U.S. subsidiary and Asian procurement operations that have congrituted to its rapid growth. In fact, the company has grown fourfold in the past eight years, increasing its annual sales from USD 250 million to USD 1 billion. On the sustainability front, in 2013 it reached 99 percent of its goal of sourcing all of its product from sustainable or responsible supply.

2014 total sales: USD 1.051 billion

 2015 total sales: USD 1.001 billion