Rancho Dominguez, CA – Roger O’Brien, President and CEO of Santa Monica Seafood, announced that Levitt Foods has been hired, effective July 1st, as the Company’s national retail broker. Given the business development goals of this relationship, the Levitt Foods group will report to Dave Litle, recently hired as Santa Monica Seafood’s Senior Vice President of Business Development. Dave Litle commented, “Santa Monica Seafood has been focused on its growth of the retail channel, and with the addition of Levitt Foods to our already strong retail team, this positions us for expansion into new market places.”
Levitt Foods is a national sales and brokerage company representing a wide range of processors and distributors that specialize in all proteins — beef, pork, poultry and seafood — for major and independent grocers throughout the United States. Art Levitt, President and CEO, has over 40 years of experience within the meat and seafood categories having worked directly for numerous regional and national retailers at everything from being a meat cutter to being Vice President over meat/seafood divisions. Over the past 17 years, Levitt Foods has developed a national sales team focused on store level product placement and execution, using a consultative partnership approach for growing sales for both retailers and manufacturers.
Roger O’Brien noted, “Adding Levitt Foods will keep with our focus of growth into new geographic territories and building new business opportunities while enhancing the services and advice we can provide to our existing retail accounts. This is a change in our servicing approach but one that has been internally embraced by both our ownership and leadership teams.”
ABOUT SANTA MONICA SEAFOOD
Santa Monica Seafood, as an 80 year old privately-owned company, is the largest specialty wholesale distributor and processor of fresh and frozen seafood in the Southwestern U.S. with over 200,000 s.f. of facilities in 12 locations in California, Arizona, Nevada, Illinois, New Mexico and Texas. Santa Monica Seafood owns and operates two retail stores and cafes – in Santa Monica and Costa Mesa, CA – which specialize in seafood and seafood related products. Santa Monica Seafood was the first and still the only seafood company in the United States to achieve FSSC 22000 certification for food safety management systems, ISO 14001 certification for environmental management programs and BAP certification for its main processing facility for repacking salmon and tilapia products.
