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RoO Derogation under the PACP-IEPA
Table 6.9
Major EU canned tuna processing firms
Firm Basic characteristics Ownership Processing locations and capacity* Markets
Bolton Group
MW Brands
Calvo Group
Jealsa
Rianxeira
Group
Consumer goods
marketer backward
integrated into canned
tuna processing and
fishing
Branded-processor
backward integrated
into fishing
Branded-processor
backward integrated
into fishing
Specialised nonbranded
processor
Mr Nissim
(100%
owner)
Thai Union
(since 2010)
78% Calvo
Pumpido
family
100% Alonso
family
2 factories: France (Quimper plant: canned tuna and misc
seafood); Italy (Cermenate-Milan plant: canned tuna)
4 MW Brands factories – 3 process tuna: France (330,000 cans of
various seafood per day); Ghana (800,000 cans of tuna and 20mt
loins per day); Seychelles (1.5mn cans of tuna per day)
4 factories: Spain (Carballo plant: 80% canned tuna; 20% misc.
others); Spain (Esteiro plant: c.20% tuna products; 80% mussels,
salads, bean-based products); El Salvador (80% loins for Spain;
20% canned tuna for US and Latin America); Brazil (75% canned
sardines; 25% canned tuna)
Est. total canned fish production: 149,000mt (2009)
10 factories – 5 process tuna: Spain (Jealsa plant: 100% canned
tuna); Spain (Éscuris plant: 80% canned tuna; 20% mussels, etc);
Spain (Tunaliment plant: pet food using tuna and others);
Guatemala (100% tuna loins for Spain); Brazil (canned sardines
and tuna).
Est. total canned fish production: 125,000mt (2008)
Owns Saupiquet the number two canned
tuna brand in France, number one in
Germany and number three in Belgium, as
well as the number one in Italy (Rio Mare)
Owns the number one canned tuna brands in
the UK and France (John West and Petit
Naivre) and the number 3 or 4 in Italy
(Mareblu).
Calvo brand has around 10% of the Spanish
market and owns Nostromo, the third largest
Italian brand.
Produces exclusively in Spanish market for
one major supermarket; penetrates the
Italian market through the major Mare
Aperto brand in a 50:50 joint venture in the
Star firm; sells in Spain and Portugal through
its Rianxeria brand; and packs for French
supermarkets and for a UK brand.
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