COOKE NAMED AS A TOP SEAFOOD INNOVATOR

Cooke named as a top seafood innovator. Cooke Inc. has announced that it’s consumer brand, True North Seafood, has been named as the SeafoodSource.com Top 25 Seafood Product Innovators – 2021 Edition. Featured companies are innovation-forward seafood suppliers that are transforming the North America industry.

“With the Covid-19 pandemic, consumers are seeking healthy, easy-to-prepare options to make at home, and we’re proud to have developed new restaurant-flavour products to help meet that need,” says Joel Richardson, Vice President of Public Relations, Cooke Inc.

True North submitted three of its new products for consideration to SeafoodSource.com: Wild-caught deep-sea red crab, frozen Atlantic salmon portions, and Atlantic salmon burgers. “With our new products, we are focused on simple ingredients, which we know is becoming increasingly important. We also placed emphasis on the protein content of our products, to help consumers find this information easily on our packaging,” added Richardson.

SeafoodSource.com is owned and operated by Diversified Communications, based in Portland, Maine, USA, a leading international media company providing market access, education and information through global, national and regional events, digital products, and publications.

The Top 25 Seafood Product Innovators – 2021 Edition list is available here: www.seafoodsource.com/news/foodservice-retail/the-top-25-seafood-product-innovators

In 2020, family-owned Cooke was named by SeafoodSource.com as one of the Top 25 Seafood Suppliers in North America for Sustainability & Conservation and the company achieved the Canada’s Best Managed Companies Platinum Club designation for the 16^th consecutive year in 2021. Cooke ships fresh, sustainable True North Seafood branded products globally.