AquaChile To Sell Ventisqueros Salmon & Trout In US & Canada

Puerto Montt – AquaChile and Ventisqueros signed an important commercial agreement, whereby AquaChile will offer and sell all of the Ventisqueros salmon and trout production in the US and Canada. This partnership aims to create a more stable and continuous supply of Chilean salmon and trout to the American and Canadian markets, as well as deepen and widen the sales into those markets.

AquaChile—through its subsidiary AquaChile Inc—has had sales offices in the US since 2002, operating as a commercial platform to supply Chilean salmon and trout to the important American and Canadian markets. Presently, these markets consume more than 400,000 gross tonnes of salmon, which is almost 15% of global production.

Initially, annual sales are expected to reach over $260 million, supplying different clients in an integral way and offering them a high level of service of real benefit to them.

“The experience and in-depth knowledge of the American market that AquaChile has developed for over 12 years, will allow Ventisqueros to gain access to a higher quantity of clients considered to be ‘end users’ of its products,” explains Víctor Hugo Puchi, Chairman of Empresas AquaChile.

Cristián Swett, CEO of Ventisqueros added that, thanks to this agreement, the company will not only optimize distribution channels bringing clients and producers closer to one another, but will also be able to identify more clearly market needs and trends over time.

AQUACHILE is a Chilean company that produces food from aquaculture farmed species such as Atlantic salmon, Pacific salmon, sea trout and tilapia. AquaChile has operations in Chile, Costa Rica, Panama and the United States, selling and marketing their products around the world.

The company is made up of a group of companies that strategically farm, produce and sell food. It gives employment to more than 5,900 people in Chile, the United States, Costa Rica and Panama and is one of the main producers of sea trout and Pacific salmon in the world, being the main provider of fresh Tilapia to the United States.

VENTISQUEROS is a Chilean Company with German capital which is part of the Schörghuber Unternehmensgruppe holding company. It is one of the 5 largest salmon producers in Chile with an annual production of 45,000 tonnes farming 3 species of salmonids: Atlantic salmon, sea trout and Pacific salmon.

The company is 100% integrated and has its own hatcheries, lake farms, sea licenses and processing plants, producing and selling fresh, frozen and smoked products.

Contact: Simone Emmison, Head of Marketing, AquaChile simone.emmison@aquachile.com Tel. +56-65 2433528 

Source: AquaChile