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Thai Union invests in Icelandic cod company. Thai Union Group PCL has announced that it has made a strategic investment in Aegir Seafood Company, one of the leading producers of cod liver in Iceland. The ...
Earnings up for Icelandic fishing and processing ventures. Gross profit, EBITDA as a proportion of operating revenue (excluding transactions of raw materials between enterprises) increased from 21.2% to 25.2% in the Icelandic fishing and fish ...
Iceland seafood moves on Elba SL. Iceland Seafood International has announced it has agreed heads of terms with GPG seafood ehf and IceMar ehf, the current owners of Elba S.L. (“Elba”) to acquire the Barcelona ...
Icelandic herring season draws to a close. The herring catching season for Icelandic fishing company Brim has come to end following the the docking of the pelagic vessel Víkingur at Vopnafjörður with 1275 tonnes of ...
Brim and Marel sign installation agreement. Brim and Marel, one of the global leaders in designing and making of fish processing equipment and software, have signed an agreement for the installation of high-tech equipment and ...
Brim to buy two Icelandic fisheries companies. Brim has signed a contract to buy two fisheries companies in Hafnarfjörður in Iceland – Fiskvinnslan Kambur hf. and Grábrók ehf. Each of the two companies operate one ...
Brim receives environmental award. Icelandic fishing company and seafood processor, Brim, has received The Environmental Awards of Confederation of Iceland Enterprises for the year 2019. President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, presented the awards to ...
Good Herring Fishing in Icelandic Waters – A pelagic trawler belonging to Icelandic seafood and fishing company, Brim, has reported good herring fishing in IIcelandic waters. “There has been good fishing, but the herring have ...
Skaginn 3X seals deal for wet salted cod. Icelandic food processing specialist Skaginn 3X has secured a milestone deal with Russia based, Norebo’s Polar Sea+ LLC, supplying the company with a state-of-the-art automatic processing line ...
Three Icelandic fisheries achieve certification. SAI Global´s Fishery Certification Committee has granted three key Icelandic commercial fisheries full certification to the IRFM Standard version 2.0. The fisheries concerned are: 1. Icelandic Common Ling (Molva molva) ...
Greenland fisheries research trip concludes. Brim (formerly HB Grandi) owned fresher trawler Helga María is now on its way home to Iceland after a busy 81-day research assignment off West Greenland on behalf of the ...
Iceland Catch Up in July 2019 – 95,000 tonnes of fish landed by Iceland last month The total landed catch of Icelandic vessels in July 2019 was 94.6 thousand tonnes which is a 1% increase ...
Strong start for Icelandic mackerel season. The Icelandic mackerel fishing season has got off to a good start, according to Magnús Róbertsson, production manager at HB Grandi’s Vopnafjörður factory in Iceland. ‘This good mackerel fishing ...
HB Grandi shareholders meeting to discuss Asia acquisitions and name change. A shareholders meeting of Icelandic fishing and seafood giant HB Grandi will be held on August 15 2019 to confirm two recent decisions made ...
Name change for Icelandic seafood producer sparked by Asia move. The Board of Directors of Icelandic seafood producer HB Grandi hf. has approved a purchase agreement of seafood sales companies in Asia and to submit ...
Icelandic seafood exports increase. In 2018 the export production of Icelandic marine products amounted to 240 billion ISK and increased by 22% from the previous year, 24% at constant prices. The total export in 2018 ...
Icelandic fishing vessel has record trip. The HB Grandi freezer trawler Vigri has just enjoyed a highly successful 23-day trip to the Russian part of the Barents Sea, with a cod catch of 1210 tonnes, ...
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