Pacific Seafood

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Pacific Seafood
TypePrivate
Founded1941
Headquarters Clackamas, Oregon
Key people
Frank Dulcich, CEO
ProductsSeafood, shellfish, meat, poultry, and assorted deli items
Website www.pacificseafood.com

Pacific Seafood is one of the largest seafood companies in North America. [1] The company launched in 1941 as a small, fresh seafood retail operation in Portland, Oregon, United States. [2] The family-owned business expanded to become one of the largest vertically integrated seafood processing and distribution companies in the United States. [3] Pacific's president and CEO, Frank Dulcich, is the grandson of the company's founder, also named Frank Dulcich. Pacific Seafood has over 2500 employees and is headquartered in Clackamas, Oregon.

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Scope

Pacific processes seafood products from Alaska to Mexico, [4] has facilities in seven Western states and participates in the global seafood trade market. It is a member of the West Coast Seafood Processors Association [5] and is active in supporting fisheries awarded Marine Stewardship Council eco-labels. [6]

Environment and food safety

Some of Pacific's facilities have earned British Retail Consortium (BRC) certification for their protective measures, including separation of raw and cooked products and positive airflow to prevent airborne pathogens. [7] The company collaborated with Georgia-Pacific to use Greenshield, a proprietary moisture-resistant coating for boxes that is 100% recyclable. [8] Pacific has also implemented a waste reduction program that diverts more than 600,000 pounds of material from landfills every year. [9]

Honors

Pacific Seafood was named "Oregon's 10th Most Admired Company" in the agriculture and forest products category by readers of the Portland Business Journal in 2009 and was similarly honored in 2007. [10] The Oregon Restaurant Association named Frank Dulcich as Purveyor of the Year at its annual awards banquet in 2008. [11]

Incidents

In 2002, the Pacific Surimi unit of the company pleaded no contest to charges of theft stemming from a practice of consistently exaggerating the "weigh back" amount, which is the portion of each catch deemed unsuitable for processing. They paid out $800,000 in damages to the aggrieved parties. [12]

In 2010, fishermen in Oregon filed an antitrust class action lawsuit against Pacific, alleging that the company used unethical tactics based on their share of the market to drive down payouts to fishermen in Oregon, Washington, and California. Some fishermen compared Pacific's effect on the market to the Wal-Mart Effect in retail sales. [12] However, on March 1, 2011, U.S. District Court Judge Owen Panner said the plaintiffs' attorney, Mike Haglund, failed to prove that Pacific has used its huge market share to suppress prices paid to fishermen. "The evidence presented... does not support plaintiffs' allegation," Panner wrote in the ruling. "Instead, the evidence indicates that since 2006 defendants' combined operations have expanded the market for whiting. Each year since 2006 (other than 2009, when there was a worldwide recession), defendants have been paying fishermen significantly higher prices for whiting, with record prices paid in 2008." [13] [14]

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References

  1. ↑ Siemers, Erik (November 12, 2010). "Pacific Seafood completes $2M upgrade – Portland Business Journal". Bizjournals.com. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Down the line". Oregon Business. December 18, 2008. Archived from the original on August 22, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  3. ↑ Portland Business Journal by Dian Cox (February 2, 1997). "Pacific Seafood becomes a big fish – Portland Business Journal". Bizjournals.com. Retrieved October 12, 2011.{{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  4. ↑ "Pacific Seafood". Wweek.com. Archived from the original on June 1, 2012. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Ashford University Enters Into Alliance Agreement With Pacific Seafood Group". MarketWatch. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Portland's Pacific Seafood has MSC certification for halibut fishery". Cabezonrestaurant.com. March 23, 2010. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Pacific Shrimp earns BRC certification". SeafoodSource.com. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  8. ↑ "Pacific seafood's new sustainable shipping cases". Greener Package. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Pacific Seafood Company Recycles, Sells Waste Styrofoam". GreenBiz.com. September 23, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  10. ↑ "Pacific Seafood Named a Most Admired Company in Oregon | Business Wire". Find Articles. December 10, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Oregon Restaurant Association Honors Pacific's Dulcich". SeafoodSource.com. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  12. 1 2 Manning, Jeff (June 22, 2010). "Class-action lawsuit accuses Pacific Seafood of antitrust violations". The Oregonian . Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  13. ↑ Manning, Jeff (March 1, 2011). "Pacific Seafoods wins critical preliminary ruling in antitrust case". The Oregonian . Retrieved October 12, 2011.
  14. ↑ "Suit against Pacific Seafood takes hit with ruling". Seattle Times . March 2, 2011. Retrieved October 12, 2011.
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