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    Cooke Aquaculture acquires a Belgian processing plant

    • Last Update: 2022-08-19
    • Source: Internet
    • Author: User
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    In 1954, the Morubel company was acquired by Bencis, mainly to develop the processing and distribution of frozen seafood in Europe, covering Spain, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy and Franc.
    Products sourced by Morubel include wild caught Argentine red shrimp, arctic shrimp and squid, as well as farmed vannamei, black tiger shrimp, mussels and scallop.
     
    Morubel has a factory with an area of ​​more than 14,000 square meters in Ostend, the largest coastal city in Belgium, with an annual production capacity of 18,000 ton.
    Its business includes frozen seafood production, processing, retail and bulk packagin.
     
    Cooke CEO Glenn Cooke said: "Morubel's focus on developing sustainable new value-added products and continuous innovation complements our investment in the attractive seafood industry in Europ.
    We are very pleased to welcome Morubel's 100 employees to Coo.
    The factory staff, sales staff and management have all been outstanding and have built long-term customer relationships through reliability, high quality and short lead time.
    "
     
    Cook Aquatic has established a number of operations in Europe, including Scottish salmon farming and nutrition business, Spain and the Netherlands trading business, and set up sales representative positions in European countrie.
     
    Morubel CEO Dirk De Pandelare said that during the Global Seafood Expo held in Barcelona, ​​Spain in April this year, the two companies left a positive impression on each other, "The Morubel team believes that the sale of the company's assets to Cook will find a way for the company to gro.
    An ideal combination to achieve future growth goal.
    We see many opportunities to expand our product line, and Cook is also building a European business, and we will sell more Cook products in European countrie.
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    Historically, Cook Aquatic has aggressively pursued asset acquisition.
    Cook currently owns more than 10% of Tassal, an Australian salmon company, enough to prevent other rivals from taking over Tassa.
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