High Liner Foods

High Liner Foods
Founded Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (1899)
Key people
 Keith A. Decker, President & CEO
Products Seafood
Number of employees
 1,540 (2015)
Website www.highlinerfoods.com (Retail site)

High Liner Foods Inc. is a North American seafood company that packages and sells seafood to restaurants and institutions under the the High Liner, Icelandic Seafood, and FPI labels, and to individual consumers as Fisher Boy, High Liner, Mirabel, Sea Cuisine, and C. Wirthy products. Founded in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, it is the largest such seafood concern in North America, serving markets in Canada, Mexico, and the United States.[1]

History

The former National Sea Products logo

The company was founded on December 12, 1899 as W.C. Smith & Company, a salt fish operation located in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.[2] In 1998, National Sea became a division of High Liner Foods.[3] In May 2003, the company's fish processing quotas and nine trawlers to a consortium headed by Clearwater Seafoods Ltd.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Company Overview High Liner Foods
  2. ↑ History, Heritage and Values High Liner Foods
  3. ↑ National Sea Products MemoryNS
  4. ↑ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/high-liner-fleet-docks-at-its-last-port/article4128168/ High Liner fleet docks at its last port] Globe and Mail

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