Madelyn Kearns is the Portland, Maine-based editor of SeafoodSource. Before diving into seafood writing, editing, and infographic-designing, she was the associate editor for an online publication geared toward small to mid-sized practice physicians, Medical Practice Insider. Maddie is a graduate of the University of Maine, where she served as a columnist and the opinion editor for the university's paper, The Maine Campus, and won a Grady Award in Creative Writing for her poetry.
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This story was originally published in October in SeafoodSource’s Key Buyer 2023 Industry Update – Fall Edition.
In an effort to maintain a steady presence of local and sustainable products on shelves amid a global pandemic, several significant players within the North American grocery space began rolling out virtual pitch events and accelerator programs to engage underrepresented suppliers. In 2021, for example, Cincinnati, Ohio,
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NOTE: This story was originally published in October in SeafoodSource’s Key Buyer 2023 Industry Update – Fall Edition.
Brody Olive’s dish featuring gafftop catfish, flash-fried mole crabs, Gulf shrimp horseradish cream, pickled purslane, and smoked paprika coral tuile earned the Orange Beach, Alabama, U.S.A.-based executive chef the coveted first-place crown in the 2023 Great American Seafood Cook-Off (GASCO), an annual
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NOTE: This story was originally published in October in SeafoodSource’s Key Buyer 2023 Industry Update – Fall Edition.
Sushi aside, promoting prepared foods has plummeted on supermarkets’ list of marketing priorities in 2023, according to foodservice research and consulting firm Datassential.
Back in 2019 and 2020, retailers and foodservice operators alike were spotlighting prepared entrees with equal vigor, Datassential Chief
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Consumers are adapting in response to strained economic conditions, even as inflation has started slowing down.
Eating at home more often remained the norm for the first half of the year among U.S. consumers, but unlike during the pandemic, shoppers lately have been branching out to different grocery locales in search of deals to reduce their food expenses. FMI – The Food Industry Association has observed shoppers’ migration to mass
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It appears the foodservice industry in North America has just about cleared the Covid-19 hurdle that initially rocked the sector beginning in 2020.
Sales in 2022 for the top 500 U.S. restaurant chains grew 8.2 percent to USD 393 billion (EUR 366 billion) compared to 2021, according to research firm Technomic in its latest 2023 Top 500 Chain Restaurant report.
“Unprecedented levels of foodservice inflation had a major effect on the
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The Seafood Excellence Global Awards winners’ circle expanded on 25 April to include Unima Distribution and Vičiūnai Group.
Spain’s Vičiūnai Group claimed the Best Retail Product prize for its Black Sepia Dumplings with Shrimp and Thai Broth Filling, while Best Hotel/Restaurant/Catering (HORECA) Product went to France’s Unima Distribution for its Organic Body-Peeled Madagascar Shrimp. Both companies accepted their prizes at
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Heading into the second quarter of 2023, inflation remains a concern for all industries worldwide, seafood included, according to Kroll Institute Global Chief Economist Megan Greene.
“Inflation is top of mind for many, many businesses. I think there’s a real risk that inflation remains elevated and persistent. I think the probability of that is really high and I think that the impact of that would be pretty high,” Greene, who
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“I have to say, it’s a weird time to be giving a global macroeconomics overview, just because things are changing so much,” Kroll Institute Global Chief Economist Megan Greene said during her keynote address at Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America in 2022.
That constant churn of change remains one year later as Greene returns to Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. to convene with the seafood community for her
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Those in search of the seafood industry’s latest and greatest products, equipment, and software need look no further than the 2023 Seafood Expo North America/Seafood Processing North America.
Each year, the leading industry event for the North American seafood marketplace brings the sector’s top creative minds together under one vast roof to share their inventions, and 2023 is no exception. Here is a sampling of this year’s
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