Donal Buckley, BIM; Yan Zhao, Jade Ireland; Peter Sullivan Green, Shellfish de la Mer; Billy Carr, Carr Shellfish; Lorcan Barden, Sofrimar; Hugh McBride, McBride Fishing and Declan Kelleher, Ireland’s Ambassador to China.
FOUR of Ireland’s most successful seafood companies, Shellfish de La Mer from Castletownbere; Cork-based Carr Shellfish; McBride Fishing, Donegal and Sorimar from Wexford have come together to set up Jade Ireland Seafood Limited, a joint venture company with an office based in Shanghai.
Following assistance from Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), the Seafood Development Agency and Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board, the companies agreed a strategic business plan for the joint venture and as part of this plan a new brand, Ocean Jade, has been developed.
