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November 30th 2007
Young's Scampi in Scotland
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Young’s has a long history in Scotland, where it employs some 1600 people and buys around £65M of Scottish seafood a year.
Macrae joined Young’s in 2004, and the combined organisation now has top class production facilities at Annan, Stornoway, E ...more |
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July 26th 2007
Young's acquires The Seafood Company
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| In a major deal announced today, Young’s has acquired The Seafood Company from Fishery Products International (FPI, based in Newfoundland), for an undisclosed sum. Young’s is part of FoodVest - which also owns Findus in continental Europe - and is backed by pr ...more |
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June 1st 2007
Young's wants radical action to protect Baltic Cod
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YOUNG'S, Britain's largest seafood producer, is calling for a radical new approach from both the European Union and the Russians to protect Baltic Sea cod stocks.
The Grimsby-based company has just issued an important document spelling out its worri ...more |
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June 1st 2007
Major Redesign for Young's
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YOUNG'S Seafood has embarked on a major brand redesign, which it says will bring a fresh new look to every pack in its entire range of fish products.
Young’s is probably the UK’s most long-standing food brand, with over 200 years’ continuous history ...more |
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May 29th 2007
Young's Continue Drive into MSC Fish
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YOUNG'S has continued the drive to increase the availability of sustainable seafood with the UK’s very first MSC scallops.
This is the thirtieth Young’s brand product to be made with MSC-approved fish – the company is already the UK’s leading MSC manufa ...more |
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May 18th 2007
"Scotland has fantastic seafood future" says Macrae MD
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THE Scottish seafood industry has a fantastic future with huge potential for market growth, guests at the official opening of Macrae’s new £10m seafood processing facility at Livingston heard yesterday.
The state-of-the-art factory for Macrae – whic ...more |
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March 1st 2007
Young's launches pangasius line
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Vietnamese farmed whitefish pangasius is getting another major Western endorsement with Young's Seafood launching the fish into foodservice and retail segments in the United Kingdom.
Grimsby based Young's launched a 60gm natural fillet portion nationwid ...more |
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December 7th 2006
Young's gears up for Christmas rush
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YOUNG'S has said it is expecting to sell at least 20 per cent of its entire annual smoked salmon output over the two week Christmas and New Year period.
Such is the huge demand for the seafood favourite at this time of year that the company has introdu ...more |
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November 17th 2006
Some important facts about Young's and Langoustines
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The market
Langoustine is the UK’s most important fishery by value, with landings worth £200M. It is a well-managed, sustainable fishery with healthy stock levels – so much so that the quota increased by 30% in December last year. Young’s is also investing ...more |
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November 2nd 2006
Young's named Seafood company of the year
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YOUNG'S has been named ‘Seafood Company of the Year’ in the annual Excellence Awards.
Organised by Food Manufacture magazine, The awards honour the best food and drink manufacturing companies, assessed on a range of criteria - from supply chain excellen ...more |
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October 20th 2006
Young's stops buying North Sea cod
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Young's Seafood will no longer purchase Atlantic Cod sourced from the North Sea, the company said.
The stock of Atlantic Cod (gadus morhua) in the North Sea is defined by International Country for Exploration of the Seas (ICES) as outside safe biologica ...more |
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October 18th 2006
Processing giant pledges action over bottom trawling
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THE pressure to achieve sustainability has been increased again by the UK's top processor.
For Young's have pledged to not to take any fish caught by bottom trawl methods which are detrimental to the environment.
The Grimsby based company which i ...more |
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October 11th 2006
Young's: Sustainable sourcing at forefront of business
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YOUNG'S Seafood has appointed two highly experienced specialist advisors to help it in the development of future sustainability policies.
Dr. David Agnew and Jim Cannon are working in an advisory capacity with the company’s Sustainability Group, a board ...more |
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October 2nd 2006
Scampi prices to rise, warn Young's
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YOUNG'S, Britain's largest supplier of breaded scampi, a major festive seafood favourite, has warned that prices are likely to be higher this Christmas.
The market for scampi is continuing to grow at 15 per cent a year, making it the most buoyant sector ...more |
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September 18th 2006
Young's launches new MSC product
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YOUNG'S is both following up its pledge to persuade the public to eat lesser known species and continuing its drive to improve the availability of sustainably-caught fish.
Hot on the heels of the launch of its 'best ever salmon,'the Grimsby seafood grou ...more |
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September 11th 2006
Young's launches Top Class Salmon product
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YOUNG'S have launched a new premium smoked salmon which is helping to preserve a traditional smoking process that has almost become extinct.
Aimed at the very top end of the market the Spey Valley Smokehouse Smoked Salmon product claims to be the best money ...more |
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June 27th 2006
Young's Lands Several Awards
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Young’s Bluecrest chiefs have won honours to add to their reputation as the drivers of Britain's fastest growing food brand.
Chief executive Wynne Griffiths and deputy chief executive Mike Parker were jointly voted Entrepreneur of the Year for Consumer ...more |
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May 24th 2006
Young's backs Seafish Initiative
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YOUNG'S has given its backing to a new initiative by Seafish which will accredit responsible practices by British fishermen.
Mike Parker, deputy chief executive of Young's, is one of three new members recently appointed to the board of Seafish and he sa ...more |
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March 13th 2006
Young's hits out at Russian black fish
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YOUNG'S Bluecrest, Britain's largest seafood producer, has strongly hit out at illegal and unregulated fishing activities by trawlers from the Barents Sea region.
The company said in a statement at the weekend it would never knowingly buy fish from any unsu ...more |
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March 10th 2006
Young's launches worlds first sustainably-caught cod
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SUSTAINABLY-CAUGHT cod will become available to UK consumers for the first time this week, Young’s Seafood has announced.
Young’s is the first company in the world to secure supplies of Alaskan line-caught Pacific cod for the UK market, following certificat ...more |
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February 1st 2006
Food Firm Giants Get Together
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Young's Bluecrest and Findus - two of Europe's food giants - have been united, bolstering Grimsby's flagship firm and creating a massive force in food.
Foodvest, Young's managing company, completed the deal to acquire Sweden-based frozen food manufactur ...more |
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January 31st 2006
Young's Clinch Findus Deal
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THE owners of Young's Bluecrest, Britain's largest frozen and chilled seafood company, have swooped for another big name in the frozen food business - Findus.
The move creates one of the largest combined frozen and chilled groups of its kind in Europe w ...more |
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January 18th 2006
Fishy for your little dishy
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These contrasting shots of the last hunted food on the planet and the finest cuisine on the plate are linked via Grimsby.
With value added products developed in the shadow of the Dock Tower, Young's crusade is to make fish a major part of our diets. And ...more |
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September 2nd 2005
Young's Enters Single Frozen Prawn Market
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Young's, the UK's leading supplier of seafood to the catering industry, has expanded its cold water prawn offering with the introduction of a single frozen prawn product.
Caught in the cold waters of Greenland, Young's new Luxury Greenland Prawns use o ...more |
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August 20th 2005
£200m is so tasty
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Top Grimsby firm Young's Bluecrest, which produces more than 40 per cent of all seafood eaten in Britain, today smashed through a sales target it has been aiming for all year.
The company, which is celebrating its 200th anniversary, has hit the £200-mil ...more |
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July 19th 2005
200 Year Old Rides Wave of Innovation
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| As one of the UK's oldest food names, the iconic Grimsby-based Young's brand is celebrating 200 years of seafood with its biggest ever wave of innovation focused on the chilled seafood category and a PR communication programme featuring award winning fishmonge ...more |
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June 27th 2005
Young's are in big league
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Young's Bluecrest has again jumped into the Sunday times league of Britain's top 100 private companies. Britains largest seafood producer and supplier has also risen several places to No 74 in the list.
Young's, which traces its roots back to Greenwich ...more |
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June 2nd 2005
Young's Puts New Found Skills into Practice
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Following the acquisition of the Macrae
Food Group in June last year, Young's, the leading supplier of seafood to the
foodservice market, is flexing its
new-found skills in the salmon arena
by bringing a range of top quality
products to the ...more |
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May 14th 2005
Foodservice Sector Set for Growth
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The foodservice sector is likely to be
a key growth area in 2005, according
to respected food and grocery think
tank IGD’s Grocery Wholesaling Survey.
9 out of every 10 companies responding
to the survey anticipate expansion and
40% expe ...more |
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April 15th 2005
Macrae’s Mackerel Kebab
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Macrae Food Group won three of the top
categories at the recent Grampian Food
Forum Innovation Awards, including
Best Overall Product and Best Seafood
Product.
Judges were particularly impressed with
Macrae’s new Simply Steam range thatmore |
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April 8th 2005
Lazy nights in for UK consumers
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More and more UK consumers are opting
for a lazy night in with a few drinks
rather than a night on the town,
according to the latest government
research.
A report by the Department of
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
(Defra), foun ...more |
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March 9th 2005
Young's Plays a Winning Hand with New and Improved Scampi
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| Young's the leading supplier of seafood to the UK's foodservice industry, has made one of Britain's most popular out of home dishes better than ever, by bringing caterers a scampi offering like no other. A carefully developed, new and improved recipe takes sc ...more |
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February 14th 2005
Fishy Business But Love Affair Goes On
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Business soared passed the half billion barrier for Grimsby's biggest employer today - all because the British nation has fallen in love with fish.
Grimsby should be proud that it is at the helm of this success story - and a name that is recognisable ac ...more |
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February 1st 2005
Seafood Snacking from Young's
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| Driving innocation in caterers' kitchens, Young's the UK's leading supplier of seafood to the foodservice industyr, is using its historic expertise in prans to launch five delicious new warm water prawn products - perfect to satisfy the growing demand for snac ...more |
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January 20th 2005
Young's Foodservice Puts Staff Through Their Paces
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| Young's Foodservice is investing in its people and putting new staff through their paces with its highly regarded and unique Seafood Academy. Recognising the importance of training, Young's is making sure that every new recruit is well equipped with all the s ...more |
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January 14th 2005
200 Year Old Rides Wave of Innovation
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| As one of the UK's oldest food names, the iconic Grimsby-based Young's brand is celebrating 200 years of seafood with its biggest ever wave of innovation focused on the chilled seafood category and a PR communication programme featuring award winning fishmonge ...more |
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January 3rd 2005
UK Seafish launches new drive to remind consumers that most fish stocks are sound
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A drive to reassure consumers that they can eat fish and shellfish with a clear conscious has been launched following the recent recovery measures announced by the European Parliament's Fisheries Council.
Welcoming the Council's decisions on the recover ...more |
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December 8th 2004
Pub Operators may ditch food sales to hold on to smokers
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The smoking ban exemption for pubs not serving food looks set to backfire as some operators contemplate ditching their menus to allow smoking in their bars.
The exemption, announced in the Government's Choosing Health White Paper, is designed to help pr ...more |
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December 6th 2004
Consumers Have More Opportunities To Spend Money on Eating Out
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| Opportunities for consumers to spend money in the catering industry are increasing. For example, in the eating out market, greater use is being made of catering outlets in shopping centres, airports, motorway service areas and leisure centres. Research for a ...more |
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December 2nd 2004
Caterers Could be forced to adopt food signposting
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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) declined to exempt the catering industry from its new "traffic light" system aimed at highlighting healthy food to consumers.
An FSA spokesman said "The system could apply to catering. It would be complicated to impleme ...more |
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November 15th 2004
National Fish & Chip shop of the Year Competition 2004
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| Ten fish and chip shops from around the UK have "battered" off stiff competition from fish and chip shops across the country to become the best fish and chip shop in their area as part of the National Fish & Chip shop of the year competition 2004, organised by ...more |
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November 11th 2004
Pubmaster helps boost Punch profits by 38%
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The acquisition of Pubmaster and organic growth in its existing estate helped Punch Taverns boost profits by 38% in the year to 21st August.
The group which has nearly doubled in size over the past two years now operates more than 8,300 leased and tenan ...more |
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October 11th 2004
Young's Spices up menus with some Bombay flavour
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| Young’s the oldest and most trusted seafood brand, is adding a little spice to the kitchen with its brand new Mini Bombay Prawn Cakes. A delicious prawn and whitefish filling with aromatic spices covered in a crispy coating to provide a true Asian delig ...more |
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October 11th 2004
Sainsbury's predict profits fall
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Supermarket group Sainsbury’s has admitted it expects to see a marked fall in its half year profits.
For the six months to 9th October it now estimates it will make a pre tax profit of between £125m - £135m.
This compares with the £366m it achiev ...more |
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October 6th 2004
Mariners Savour a Sauce of Revenue
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Grimsby Town players got a taste of hard work during a visit to the home of Mariner’s Pie.
The team members were treated to a tour of Young’s Bluecrest Seafoods factory in Grimsby where they saw the pie – which shares their nickname &# ...more |
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October 4th 2004
Another Seafood Firm is Taken Over
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Another Grimsby fish processing company has been bought out in major takeover deal.
The award winning company Fastnet was acquired by Andrew Marr International (AMI) based at Hessle nr Hull. The company bought the controlling interest for an undisclose ...more |
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September 28th 2004
Little Chef to retain logo
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Roadside restaurant operator Little Chef has abandoned its plans to slim down its logo.
After the new design was revealed last month, 15,000 people visited the company’s website to protest, the company claimed.
Little Chef also received what it d ...more |
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September 17th 2004
Pub Catering set to spread over next five years
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Pubs are making strong inroads into the territory occupied by full-service licensed restaurants, according to a new report into the pub catering market by Mintel.
It predicts that the £6bn pub catering market will continue to expand over the next five y ...more |
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September 10th 2004
Snacking culture is big business for caterers
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Contract caterers are set to benefit as snacking and eating outside the home continue to take a bigger bite out of nations regular eating occasions.
A new report from market research Datamonitor reveals that an extra three million breakfast, lunch and e ...more |
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September 9th 2004
School food hits Compass profits
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More than £1.7bn or 25% was wiped off the stock market value of catering giant Compass as low profits on school food contracts caused it to cut its profit forecasts.
The world’s largest catering firm said that “for 2004 onward” operating profit would fa ...more |
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September 1st 2004
Brake Bros in talks to buy Peter's Distribution arm
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| Brake brothers, suppliers of food to caterers in France and the UK, is reported to be in talks to acquire the chilled food distribution arm of Peter's Food Service, a business that was partly to blame for Compass' profit warning last week. Compass, the world' ...more |
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August 27th 2004
UK Prawn Buyers feeling price squeeze
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Poor fishing in the Barents Sea and Flemish Cap areas have struck down prawn supplies, and out of Norway in particular, prawn shipments are well down from last year – by as much as 14%. The effect has been a major upwards push on prawn prices.
Second ...more |
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August 17th 2004
Little Chef slims down - and may disappear
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The trademark logo of roadside restaurant chain Little Chef may slim down so much he eventually fades away completely.
The company has already commissioned a slimmed-down version of the tubby cook as part of an overall move towards healthier menus and i ...more |
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July 26th 2004
Seafood Week £600 Million Giveaway
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| To help boost the sales of seafood and celebrate Seafood Week 2004, the Sea Fish Authority (Seafish) is giving away 6000 promotions packs to friers and fishmongers throughout the UK as well as £600 million worth of ABTA holiday vouchers for these outlets to gi ...more |
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