News - page 18

OJSC Russian Sea Group (the "Company" or the "Group"), one of Russia's leading consumer food companies, announces the appointment of Timofey Tarasov, the former Vice-president of Wimm-Bill-Dann, as Chief Executive Officer effective October 3, 2011.

In mid-October 2011 the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants McDonald's and the Russian branch of the World Wide Fund for Nature hold closed consultations on the opportunity to open a pollock processing factory in Russia, reports www.megafishnet.com.

One of Ukraine's leading fish importers Oceanapolis Company has recently launched avia shipments of live shellfish from France and other countries, reports http://www.megafishnet.com/

OJSC "Russian Sea Group" (the "Company" or the "Group"), one of the leading Russian consumer food companies, and OJSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation" ("OSK") signed a strategic partnership agreement to project and build a modern fishing fleet. The agreement was signed by the Vice-President of "OSK" Dmitry Mironenkov and the Deputy CEO of "Russian Sea Group" Maxim Kljushin during the international shipping and shipbuilding exhibition "NEVA 2011".

The Icelandic Fishing Industry Awards took place for the fifth time at the recent Icelandic Fisheries Exhibition 2011, which closed in the Smárinn exhibition hall in Kópavogur last week. Among the winners this time was HB Grandi, which was awarded recognition as a Outstanding Icelandic Fishing Company by the awards committee

There is a new General Director in Nakhodka BAMR, one of the biggest Russian fishing companies. The company board decided of early termination of Peter Savchuk's authority and appointed Oleg Darkin as the new head of the company.

Highlights - first quarter 2011 and half-year report 2011

One of the world's leading seafood companies based in Canada reports 2nd quarter 2011 results

OJSC «Russian Sea Group» (the «Company» or the «Group»), one of Russia's leading consumer food companies, today announces its revenue for the first six months of 2011, based on unaudited management accounts.

OJSC «Russian Sea Group» (the «Company» or the «Group»), one of Russia's leading consumer food companies, today announces that it gained right to conclude contracts for seven fishing sites destined for commercial fish farming in Segozero, Vigozero and Ladoga Lakes in Republic of Karelia. The potential farming volumes on the gained sites amount to around 7 thousand tons of rainbow trout which represents around 50% of current farming volumes of trout farms in Karelia.

All at once there emerged plenty of news about owner change of a Vladivostok fishing company named ROLIZ. Quite a number of Russian companies with attractive capture quotas are open for sale but this is one of the cases when the deal was actually made, according to Russian Fish Insider Report published by http://www.megafishnet.com/