Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.-based NaturalShrimp has recently announced partnership with US Foods as a part of its new grow-out program targeted at customers in Austin, San Antonio, and Houston, Texas.
NaturalShrimp operates two recirculating aquaculture system farms growing shrimp in Texas and in the U.S. state of Indiana. Rosemont, Illinois, U.S.A.-based US Foods is a leading foodservice distributor that has partners with approximately 250,000 restaurants and foodservice operators, 70 broadline locations, 28,000 associates, and more than 80 cash-and-carry stores.
“We are very excited to build this channel-specific program for a leading national distributor,” NaturalShrimp Vice President of Sales and Marketing Marco van den Berg said in a press release. “This is in line with our strategy to deliver our quality product to restaurants inside a 300-mile radius, within eight hours from harvest at our production facility in La Coste. There has been continuous growing support for local producers, with top-tier customers looking to differentiate their product offering from the rest of the industry. Shrimp still enjoys the top spot when you look at the latest seafood per capita consumption data, and consumers are now ready to pay a premium for a fresh, naturally grown Texas product.”
“Brian Rashid, our regional sales manager, is working with our live program in San Antonio and expansion of this program to Austin and will be our point of contact with U.S. Foods," van den Berg said. "Since joining in August, Brian has been delivering consistent quality product and benchmark service to our customers across multiple sales channels as we continue with our growth strategy."
NaturalShrimp Chief Technology Officer Tom Untermeyer said the company has fully recovered from a fire it experienced in July 2022.
“The Hydrogas technology allowed us to maintain the health of the shrimp in the La Coste, Texas, production facility immediately after the July fire prior to installing our emergency backup electrocoagulation equipment. Consequently, we are now able to start supplying US Foods weekly with our fresh shrimp from our Texas location as we continue to ramp up production and believe the prove out of our Hydrogas technology was instrumental in helping to secure this agreement," he said.
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