All Fish articles – Page 82
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Princes Foods Tuna: A place in the sun
Princes' £15m Indian Ocean cannery gives it the firepower of vertical integration and a firmer grasp on the UK's stellar tuna sales. Clive Beddall flew to Mauritius for an exclusive view Its white, sandy beaches are lapped hypnotically by ...
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Canned tuna: Princes' firepower in Mauritius
Princes Foods has raised the stakes in its battle with Heinz subsidiary John West for supremacy in the UK's £170m canned tuna market. It has spent £15m on a new cannery on the southern Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. The plant will source raw...
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Princes tuna in Mauritius: Faster, better canning
Princes claims the most streamlined tuna production process in the world in Mauritius thanks to an integrated, computer controlled, thaw, cook and cool system’ which it has developed in conjunction with a Danish equipment producer. It claims that,…
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Fish market report: Late run of landings improves supplies
The supply of all varieties of fish increased significantly after a late run of good landings last week. The ensuing rollercoaster ride saw prices drop, quickly followed by a return to shortage of supplies which helped bring prices back up again. ...
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Canned fish: Raw material costs set to rise for tuna packers
End in sight for below cost supplies; operations in Indian ocean to cease Tuna packers are facing increased raw material costs following an agreement reached between fishing companies to cease operations in the Indian ocean. Prices had reached...
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Heads and choppers
Chupa Chups has brought back its Mega Choppers plastic heads and bodies of animals, fish and reptiles that are attached to a strawberry Chupa Chups lollipop. The idea is for kids to twist the lollipop stick to make the animal move and once they...
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Liquid milk: Let's talk more urges Waitrose
Better communications with supermarkets can help farmers to increase the shelf space their products occupy, according to Richard Sadler, Waitrose head of buying for meat, poultry, fish and dairy. He was talking to 50 Waitrose Select Farm milk...
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The worst is to come
A £1.2 m ad campaign for John West salmon is underway with its first TV ads in 10 years. Two executions of the ad will run in the build up to Christmas, with the strapline: "We endure the worst to bring you the best." John West general ...
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SIAL show review: Sial d'Or awards
Jim Cane, commercial director of Youngs Bluecrest, right, picks up one of the company's two Sial d'Or awards during a special ceremony at the show. Its Fish & Sauce range beat 24 entries from around the world to win the fish category in the awards....
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Poor catch slows Portuguese sardines
Poor fishing has caused shipment delays of Portuguese sardines. Morocco, however, is keeping up with demand, which traditionally falls off at this time of the year. Moroccan producers have access to better quality frozen fish and, over the years,...
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Finlay's Cavi Art casebook
Finlay's Foods is fishing for vegetarian custom with the launch of a fish free Beluga caviar taste-a-like called Cavi Art. The company said its £4.99 100g product is easier on the wallet than salted sturgeon fish eggs which typically weigh in at...
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Canned fish: Quality tuna in short supply
Political unrest in the Pacific has taken its toll on quality tuna production. The Foreign Office has warned people not to travel to either Fiji or the Solomon Islands and the Japanese have temporarily shut down their tuna cannery on the Solomons...
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Clicks not bricks: Memory like a fish?
Goldfish, it is said, have only a four second memory and so do some retailers despite vast reserves of loyalty card data. But the internet will make it much easier for all staff to have full consumer histories always at hand. Claire Murphy...
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The Grocer focus on Scotland: FISH: salmon leaps back upmark
The Scottish salmon industry is working to restore its image for superb quality following the ISA scare and is also adding value with organics, innovation, and convenience says Nicky Holmyard Over the past few years the Scottish salmon industry...
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Canned salmon: Pinks lucky to reach 70m'
Catches of pink salmon are so bad that canning crews, many of them students on seasonal summer jobs, are already packing up and leaving Alaska ahead of schedule. After last year's glut 144 million pinks were caught in the US catch figures were...
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Name central in John West's first revamp of packaging for 1
John West has overhauled its packaging to give more prominence to the John West branding and inject a bit more interest into the canned fish fixture. It has invested £500,000 in the new look which the company hopes "will prompt consumers to think...
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Princes and the showgirl
Feeding your marketing manager to the sharks may not be the most palatable way of proving a point. And by the look on the face of Melissa Wilson (left), fish marketing manager at Princes Foods, we think she was going well beyond the call of duty....
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What about the seafood barbie?
Sir; In your April 1 issue Janet Kelly and Nicola Gordon-Seymour wrote no fewer than four pages of Focus on Barbecues, and all this, to my very great surprise and no small consternation, without a mention of fish or shellfish. Most major UK...
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Trade backs campaign protecting fish
Exclusive Tony Brown Food manufacturers and supermarkets have fully endorsed a product labelling scheme designed to protect the world's fish species. From this week, the Marine Stewardship Council is launching Fish Forever, a campaign to...
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hot ideas for cans
Fish and meat have benefited from fresh thinking in product and packaging development. A good example is the microwaveable can, developed by International Fish Canners from an earlier project with John West. The 200g cans of tuna lasagne and tuna...