Del Monte Fresh Produce’s Emanuel Lazopoulos To Keynote United FreshMKT Conference

Del Monte Fresh Produce, Inc. Senior Vice President, North America, Sales, Marketing and Product Management, Emanuel Lazopoulos will put the spotlight on innovation as keynote speaker at this year’s United FreshMKT Conference, Monday, June 25 at McCormick Place in Chicago where hundreds of retail, produce and fresh foods executives will gather to discover marketing trends to advance their businesses.

Santa Monica Seafood Completes New Mexico Based Acquisition

April 3, 2018 Santa Monica Seafood

Roger O’Brien, President and CEO of Santa Monica Seafood, announced the Company has completed its acquisition of certain assets and the assumption of certain liabilities of Seattle Fish Company of New Mexico, Inc. (“SFNM”).

Clean Meat Brand Raises $3.5M To Create Lab-Grown Salmon

Clean meat company, Wild Type recently netted $3.5 million in funding. The company is working to develop technology that allows cellular agriculture to grow any type of animal protein, not just muscle meat. For now, in a bid to create sustainable seafood, Wild Type is developing small pieces of lab-grown salmon that hold their shape when used in sushi. Then, they intend to advance and make salmon lox.

NC Commercial Fishing Group Sues Over New License Policy

April 3, 2018 Associated Press

The organization that represents commercial fishermen in the state says in a lawsuit that the North Carolina Marine Fisheries Commission violated open meetings laws when it wrote a proposal to redefine eligibility for a commercial fishing license.

Tyson Chicken Plant Rejected In One Town, Welcomed In Another

In Tonganoxie, Kan., residents showed their distaste for a Tyson Foods chicken plant last year by posting "No Tyson in Tongie" signs in yards and mailing pictures of dead chickens to a county official. When local officials, in response, revoked hundreds of millions of dollars to support the Tyson project, Tyson advanced its plans for a $300 million plant in Humboldt, a West Tennessee town located in Gibson County.