Jack Cowden of Middleton Seafoods shaking hands with Rockall Seafoods director. (Photo: Whitby Seafoods/Stock File/FIS
(UNITED KINGDOM, 12/9/2011)
Leading national scampi processor W Middleton & Son (NI) Ltd has taken over 100 per cent of the share capital of its counterpart Rockall Seafoods Ltd.
Both are sited nearby each other in the main fishing port on the County Down coast in Northern Ireland, Kilkeel Harbour, which hosts one of the country’s largest fishing fleets.
“The coming together of the two businesses will improve the competitiveness of Ireland’s scampi processing industry at a time of acute pressure brought about by very high raw material costs and increasing price sensitivity by consumers as a result of the current econom...
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