Thai Union Q3 sales growth bucks falling shrimp, tuna prices
Despite Q3 profits falling y-o-y, Thai Union reported sales and operating profit growth in spite of the falling prices for shrimp and tuna raw material
Safeway accused of cheating consumers with under-filled tuna cans
Class action filed in court in California accuses supermarket chain of selling customers albacore and light-meat tuna cans that were under-filled
Greenpeace FAD campaign labeled unscientific by industry players
Members of environmental bodies and tuna players rounded on Greenpeace at the opening conference of Friend of the Sea’s One to One Meeting 2015 in Bangkok
Anova expanding sea-frozen range to include hoki, hake
Anova has just started selling single frozen wild Alaska sockeye salmon, as it also looks for more sources of FAS fillets, such as New Zealand hoki and hake from South Africa
Century Pacific’s domestic business offsetting tough global private label tuna market
Philippines tuna canner Century Pacific seeing strong domestic business offsetting tough times in global private label market, with Q3 sales and profits up
Starkist threatens to move ops away from American Samoa due to rising wages, fishing rules
Korean-owned US tuna canner says it's imposed a hiring freeze while exploring shifting operations to Ecuador, Senegal, citing hike in minimum wage as latest setback to local conditions
ISSF urges ICCAT to bring tuna management up to date
Vessel monitoring, harvest control rules and non-entangling FADs were among the points raised in ISSF's latest position statement
State-owned Chinese group closing in on deal for branded Spanish canner
A state owned Chinese energy and retail giant is closing in on a deal for Spain’s third largest tuna brand
US foodservice giant Aramark commits to sell all MSC tuna
Aramark, a $15bn turnover US foodservice supplier, will transition to 100% MSC canned skipjack and albacore tuna by April 1, 2016
WWF to MSC: Review all tuna assessments or lose consumer confidence
‘Rigor applied to the Echebastar assessment must apply to other assessments, to do otherwise would be a perversion of the system and result in loss of consumer confident in the MSC brand,’ says WWF