Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc. - Introduction

Introduction

1100 West Ewing Street
Seattle, Washington 98199-1321
U.S.A.
Telephone: (206) 285-6800
Fax: (206) 285-9190
Web site: http://www.oceanbeauty.com

Private Company
Founded: 1910 as Washington Fish & Oyster
Employees: 250
Sales: $500 million (2003 est.)
NAIC: 311711 Seafood Canning; 311712 Fresh and Frozen Seafood Processing.

Based in Seattle, Washington, privately owned Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Inc. is one of the largest vertically integrated seafood companies in the Pacific Northwest. Although the company buys fish from all over the world, it specializes in seafood products originating in the waters of Alaska, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest. It then processes and distributes the seafood in facilities located in Alaska and the lower 48 states. In addition to the Ocean Beauty label, the company also sell its products under another 20 brand names, such as Ocean Bonita, Sea Choice, LASCCO, Three Star, Icy Point, Tribe, Pink Beauty, Searchlight, Commander, and Neptune. Customers include commodity buyers, retail buyers, food service buyers, private labels, and export buyers. Production facilities are located in Copper River/Cordova in Prince William Sound, home to a major salmon run; Naknek in southwestern Alaska, the world's largest sockeye fishery; Petersburg, Alaska, the largest chum fishery in the state; Kodiak, Alaska's second largest fishing port, where fresh, frozen and canned salmon, as well as halibut, perch, cod, pollock, flatfish, and herring are produced year round; Nikiski, one of Alaska's premiere fresh water salmon fisheries; Alitak, a remote processing plant at the south end of Kodiak Island in Alaska; and Excursion Inlet, located 40 miles west of Juneau. Ocean Beauty maintains distribution operations in Astoria, Washington; Boise, Idaho; Dallas, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; Portland, Oregon; Salt Lake City, Utah; and Seattle and Spokane, Washington.