Tag: Icelandic seafood
Praise for Samherji stalwart. Haraldur Grétarsson will resign from the European operations of Samherji Holding ehf. in early April. Mr. Grétarsson has held the position of managing director of the Deutsche Fischfang Union (DFFU) in ...
Decent showing of Hali cod. Brim’s fresher trawler Helga María is on the Hali grounds off the Westfjords, where there’s some good fishing for cod, according to skipper Heimir Guðbjörnsson ‘Last week we finished our ...
Generational transition in the ownership of Samherji. The largest shareholders of Icelandic seafood giant Samherji, Ms Helga Steinunn Guðmundsdóttir, Mr Thorsteinn Már Baldvinsson, Mr Kristján Vilhelmsson and Ms Kolbrún Ingólfsdóttir, have transferred their shares in ...
Samherji – seafood markets have changed drastically. Fresh seafood markets have changed drastically in just two weeks, and exports of fresh fish are only about a quarter of what they were before the Covid-19 pandemic ...
Skaginn 3X boosts sales management team. Fish processing machinery manufacturer Skaginn 3X has announced the addition of two new regional managers to its sales team, Ágúst Ágústsson and Ingvar Vilhjálmsson. Ágúst and Ingvar will both ...
Storms hit Icelandic fishing fleet activity. Severe storms since the start of the year has curtailed the activities of the Icelandic fishing fleet, according to fisheries and seafood company, Brim. ‘We can’t complain over the ...
Icelandic fleet completes blue whiting fishery for this year. Bri’ms pelagic vessels Venus and Víkingur docked in Vopnafjörður in Iceland last Sunday, with both having around 2100 tonnes of blue whiting in their tanks. Skipper ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
New CFO for Brim. Inga Jóna Friðgeirsdóttir is the new chief financial officer of Brim and will become a member of the Executive Board of the company. Her task will be to manage finance, accounting, ...
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 ...
Kampi ehf. buys new Tub Handling System from Skaginn 3X. The factory, located in Ísafjörður, Iceland recently signed a contract with Skaginn 3X for a Tub Handling System. The benefits of this system are plenty. ...
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