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A DORMANT seafood factory is back in business at Maryport in Cumbria with new products and new jobs.
The Glendawn plant has been closed for some time after its previous owner Cumbria Seafoods opened a new factory in Seaham, County Durham about three years ago.
Now the award winning company Grants Smoked Foods has re-opened the plant, creating around 30 new jobs - and it is also planning to expand with a further new factory, adding even more jobs.
Three weeks ago Grants won top foodservice Seafood Prix d'elite award at the European Seafood Exposition in Brussels for its MacKnight’s Smoked Salmon Bacon, product is made from Scottish Atlantic salmon that is cured with a special blend of rock salt, spices and maple syrup then carefully air dried and smoked to create a rich, flavourful smoked salmon bacon. Grants Smoked Foods, on the Solway Industrial Estate, reopened its neighbouring Glendawn factory which had been closed after Cumbria Seafoods Ltd was offered regeneration money to move out and start up a business in the North East.
Finance director Michelle Ingham told Fishupdate that the development was good news for the area, adding that the conversion work was completed a few weeks ago and the Glendawn plant was now up and running. It is also hoped to produce the prize winning Smoked Salmon Bacon product at the site.
Jonathan Brown, co-founder of the Miami based Macknight Food Group, launched Grants in Maryport in 1984, before selling it in 2001 to Cumbrian Seafoods. Then last August the Macknight Food Group took it over again with the intention of creating up to 60 news jobs and bringing it under one UK holding company with Grant's as the flagship. Macknight also operates five seafood facilities in the United States.
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