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The company's products include tuna, salmon, oysters, mussels, clams, shrimp, crab, lobster and sardines. Clover Leaf Seafoods was formerly owned by Canadian Connors Brothers Limited when merged with American counterpart brand Bumble Bee Seafoods in 2003, it was then sold to American equity firm Centre Partners (based in Los Angeles ) in 2005 ...
The parent company, Century Pacific Group, Inc., was established by Ricardo S. Po, Sr. (1931–2021) on December 12, 1978 as Century Canning Corporation, whose primary business was the distribution and sales of canned and processed fish products derived from tuna, sardines, and milkfish.
Connors Brothers Limited was a fish packing company founded by Lewis and Patrick Connors in the 1880s and based in Blacks Harbour, New Brunswick. [1] It is known by the Brunswick brand, and is the only remaining producer of sardines in North America.
In 1880, Norwegian fish canneries began exporting sardines. [2] At the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, the Norwegian exhibition included smoked sardines. [3]In 1903, a year after royal permission had been granted, Chr. Bjelland & Co. first began exporting the King Oscar brand of sardines to the United States, and by 1920, the brand was established in the USA and British markets. [4]
Sep. 11—AUSTIN — A jackpot-winning ticket worth an estimated annuitized $800 million for the Mega Millions drawing held on Sept. 10 was purchased in Sugar Land, marking the largest lottery ...
In the 1940s, Bogdanovich turned his operations to tuna canning when California's coastal supply of sardines began to decrease. [10] Under Bogdanovich's leadership, in 1942, the company began marketing its products under the "Star-Kist" brand name.
Puerto Rico’s government on Thursday signed a multimillion-dollar contract with a Texas-based company to build a marina for mega yachts in the capital of the U.S. territory. Currently, two docks ...
StarKist was founded in 1917 in San Pedro, California [3] (known historically as "Fish Harbor") [4] as the French Sardine Company of California, by Martin J. Bogdanovich (an immigrant from Croatia) and several partners. Bogdanovich is known for his innovations related to refrigeration of the seafood product with crushed ice. [5]