Key Buyer 2021 Industry Update – Spring Edition

Exclusive Key Buyer Publication

The seafood industry is experiencing a new kind of spring awakening.

It’s been a full year since COVID-19 drove much of North America into lockdown and the continent’s seafood sector embarked an unprecedented, transformational journey.

Throughout 2020 and into 2021, the industry has encountered and embraced innovative kitchen and delivery models for foodservice and retail, novel product formats, and evolving consumer mindsets. With seafood sales at retail still surging and whispers of a foodservice comeback by 2022 growing louder, the category’s potential only grows riper with each passing season.

This edition of SeafoodSource’s Key Buyer 2021 Industry Update explores the promising segment straddling the line between grocery and take-out – grab-and- go – as well as the explosion in sales of premium species, key marketing takeaways gleaned from the pandemic, and more. If last year was what Bristol Seafood’s Peter Handy called a “structural positive inflection-point for seafood,” will 2021 be the industry’s point of blast-off?

Document length: 33 pages. Available as a download only.