Court rules former Heiploeg boss should pay €13m over shrimp price-fixing
Court finds Nienhuis responsible for illegal price agreements made by Heiploeg, Klaas Puul Beheer and some smaller buyers with fishermen between 2000 and 2009
Bencis in talks to sell Shore EU shrimp ops to Sykes, Costa Rica organic arm to local team
Acquisitive UK processor Sykes looking to add to its continental European shrimp operations with a deal for Shore, which owns the Morubel and Ristic frozen seafood businesses
Pandemic hits North Sea shrimp peeling hard
The coronavirus pandemic is causing significant issues for the North Sea shrimp sector, which is reliant on labor-intensive peeling houses in Morocco, says CEO of big player
Sykes eyes UK M&A, but Brexit debacle means plant investment goes to Holland
Sykes is in talks to acquire two London-centric foodservice distributors, but uncertainty around what shape Brexit will take means Sykes' plant investment focus is not in UK
Leroy’s salmon, trout, cod production up by double-digits
Year-to-date production of salmon and trout at the Norwegian firm is up by 13% year-on-year to 78,200t
Cornelis Vrolijk enhances focus on machine-peeled shrimp with stake in Dutch firm
The company has bought an interest in GPC Kant, which works out of the same former Telson plant that it bought in May, meaning more synergies and a wider variety of products
Cornelis Vrolijk buys Telson plant from administrator for shrimp arm Kegge
Dutch seafood giant Cornelis Vrolijk has acquired the former Telson plant for its Kegge shrimp subsidiary, the company confirmed to Undercurrent News
Dutch flatfish calls on EU for aid as trade ‘implodes’, pelagics on alert
Prices and catch volumes for demersal flatfish have dropped by about 30-40%, while brown shrimp catch has stopped entirely, VisNed says
Sykes CEO grateful for retail strength of Klaas Puul in coronavirus foodservice crash
Meanwhile, Sykes has seen UK foodservice 'basically stop dead', says Alan Dale, its CEO, having closed a deal for Klaas Puul earlier this week
Sykes closes Klaas Puul deal creating $300m shrimp processor
The UK's Sykes Seafood has closed its deal for Dutch shrimp processor Klaas Puul Beheer from private equity H2 Equity Partners