Costco Switches to More Norwegian Salmon, Cutting Back on Chilean Deliveries
US retail giant Costco Wholesale will switch around two-thirds of its fresh farmed salmon fillet supply to Norway, the US retail giant told Chilean packers during the Boston seafood show.
The move from Costco, which buys around 600,000 pounds of farmed salmon a week, will impact several Chilean processors, the hardest hit being Empresas AquaChile, Blumar Seafoods, Pesquera Camanchaca and Multiexport, sources said.
The new contract will start in June.
This was the “cherry on the cake” of a gloomy show for the Chileans, one source said....
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