Blacks Harbour NB, Canada: The Cooke family has completed the purchase of Icicle Seafoods, Inc and is pleased to have been able to work with AGR Partners, an investment firm dedicated to long-term, non- controlling equity investments in the food and agriculture value-chain, as a minority partner.
The purchase includes Icicle’s three business units, which harvest and process over 150,000 metric tonnes of seafood annually: wild salmon, groundfish and farmed Atlantic salmon.
With a worldwide network of cold storage and distribution facilities, Cooke will offer a large portfolio of seafood protein from the ocean – both farmed and wild – to a broad base of customers in the global marketplace.