Linda Wood, who has 17 years business experience, has been appointed head of technical. She joins a market-leading technical function which has benefited from a £460k investment programme.

She started her career in QA posts at firms such as McVities and for the past six years she has been head of technical for Macrae Foods, part of the Young's group, with responsibility for its £70 million turnover Fraserburgh site.

Michael Osborne has been appointed head of purchasing. He joins from Wight Salads Group, Europe’s largest organic fruit grower, where he has been group purchasing manager for the past four years. Other previous positions include Toolquip where he managed projects in Thailand and Nepal for the United Nations and the World Bank. In his new post he will be supported by a team of buyers and responsible for sourcing fish and seafood from around the world as well as buying packaging and ingredients.

“Linda has a proven track record in seafood manufacturing and her arrival completes our new technical team which has now doubled in size over the past 18 months,” said Dan Aherne, managing director. “Michael will continue this firm’s long-standing tradition of sourcing both farmed and wild fish caught or harvested in a sustainable and ethical manner. It was also imperative for us that both executives had experience in building successful customer relationships with the leading supermarkets as we focus exclusively on providing high quality, sustainable seafood to own label customers.”

New England Seafood was founded in 1991 by chairman Fred Stroyan who successfully identified a demand for importing live lobsters into the UK from Canada and North America.

In 1993 the company expanded into the fresh tuna market and New England Seafood has now become one of the largest importers of fresh tuna in the UK as well as a leading player in the overall fish import and processing industry.

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