Christine Blank, a veteran freelance writer and editor, covers all aspects of the seafood industry, from fishing to processing to selling and serving the final product. When she is not writing for SeafoodSource, Christine gets to taste scrumptious seafood dishes at U.S. restaurants for her food and travel blog, Flavorful Excursions (www.flavorfulexcursions.net). Christine loves to eat seafood of any kind, but lobster, crab and crawfish are among her favorites. In addition to SeafoodSource.com and SeaFood Business, Christine’s articles have been published in hundreds of leading magazines and newspapers, such as The New York Times, USA Today and Associated Press.
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FMI – The Food Industry Association's Power of Seafood 2024 report highlighted declining U.S. retail seafood sales in 2023, but also revealed preparing seafood at home has grown incresaingly popular since the Covid-19 pandemic.
The report, released during a conference session at Seafood Expo North America in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., on 10 March, found U.S. seafood sales revenue declined 3.1 percent to USD 18.9 billion (EUR 17.3
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With U.K. grocery inflation hitting its lowest point in almost two years, British grocery chains featuring more domestic seafood, and value retailers continuing to grow sales, all signs are pointing toward a better market in 2024 for U.K. seafood suppliers.
U.K. grocery price inflation fell to 5.3 percent in February – the lowest rate seen in the country since March 2022 and a decrease of 1.5 percent month over month, according to Kantar.
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Phillips Foods, one of the largest U.S. suppliers of crabmeat, has purchased two plants in Canada to process lobster and snow crab as it launches new products.
Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.-based Phillips Foods acquired facilities in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island to process lobster and crab, Phillips Vice President of Retail Sales and Marketing John Baxter told SeafoodSource.
The facilities include the former South Shore Seafoods plant in
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission sued to block the USD 24.6 billion (EUR 22.7 billion) proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger on 26 February. The suit will almost certainly further delay the merger – originally proposed in October 2022.
In the FTC’s suit, the commission argued the tie-up would lead to “higher prices for groceries and other essential household items for millions of Americans.”
“The loss of
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Smoked salmon sales struggled over the past year despite the the categories' gains elsewhere, but new products from Kvaroy Arctic, Ocean Beauty, and Acme Smoked Fish aim to draw new customers to the category in 2024 to reverse the trend.
Sales of smoked salmon declined 7.2 percent year over year across all retailers in the fourth quarter of 2023, per Circana OmniMarket Integrated Fresh data. Specifically, frozen smoked salmon sales dropped
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