Salmon processor builds on strong performance Stateside

By Anne Bruce

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Salmon processor builds on strong performance Stateside
Cumbria-based salmon processor Highland Farms has announced plans for a £1m expansion that will create around 40 new jobs.

The company has applied for planning permission to double the size of its premises at the Solway Industrial Estate in Maryport.

Md Tony Ingham told Foodmanufacture.co.uk that the expansion, which he expects to begin this summer, would double the headcount at the site to 80. “We have a target to double our turnover in the next two years,” ​he added.

ISA fish virus

Ingham said that Highland Farms started operating in May 2010, exporting farmed salmon to the US. The company was launched to take advantage of a sudden spike in demand from the US, which occurred when the deadly ISA fish virus hit the salmon sector in Chile, the world's second largest salmon producer.

Ingham said that the company currently exports 95% of its output to the US, but planned to grow its business in the UK and Europe: “The problems in Chile are coming to an end and we want to take the company in a different direction now. We want to introduce a ready to eat range to the UK and Europe.”

Highland Farms ceo is Jonathan Brown, co-founder of Miami based salmon giant MacKnight Food Group. He also founded Grants Smoked Foods in Maryport in 1984 and has various interests in the UK and US under a UK holding company Smokehouse Holdings Ltd.

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