Competing against companies from all sectors of Scottish industry, Loch Duart has added to its trophy cabinet at the 2016 HSBC Scottish Export Awards (in association with Scottish Enterprise) in Glasgow. Loch Duart won the ‘Scottish Export Team of the Year’ award, celebrating a year in which 65% of the … Continued
Café Royal has been a London institution for over 150 years and occupies one of London’s finest positions in Regent Street’s famous colonnaded Nash terrace, close to Piccadilly and on the borders of elegant Mayfair on one side and vibrant, creative Soho on the other. Recently extensively refurbished, Café … Continued
The shortlist for the HSBC Scottish Export Awards in association with Scottish Enterprise has officially been announced. Loch Duart has been shortlisted for two awards – ‘Large Exporter of the Year’ and ‘Export Team of the Year.’ Businesses from across the nation will come together for a black tie dinner … Continued
We’re proud and delighted to see Loch Duart salmon on the menu for the banquet celebrating the BAFTA awards ceremony at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, on Sunday (14th February). The banquet, which features ‘the best of British food’, is being masterminded by Head Chef of the British … Continued
Since Loch Duart was founded in 1999, we have been searching for a way to secure the highest quality ingredients for the feed for our salmon. Whether it was unilaterally banning blue whiting or launching our fishmeal selection process based on internationally-recognised sustainability data, we have always recognised feed ingredients … Continued
Here is a link to a very good article by Dr Martin Jaffa which has appeared in the Scottish edition of ‘The Times’ today (Tuesday 15th December 2015). It follows a recent press release by Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland blaming sea lice from fish farms for the decline in salmon and … Continued
First published on www.seafoodsource.com by Nicki Holmyard, SeafoodSource contributing editor With commodity status comes commodity prices, and intense competition to develop long-term, supply relationships, thereby avoiding a boom and bust cycle. However, large-scale buyers are known for being capricious, switching often between suppliers, which can leave farmers competing on … Continued
After 16 years, Alan Balfour, one of the three founders of Loch Duart Ltd, has decided to retire from the business. As Deputy Managing Director, Alan has supported the transition to the new executive team now running the company and the Board was aware of his intentions to step down … Continued
At Sea With Loch Duart Here you see a member of Fine Yacht Provisions/Chez Laurent making a delivery to one of the ‘mega-yachts’ that cruise the Mediterranean in the summer. We’re delighted to hear from Laurent Castel, the founder and owner of the company, that fresh, smoked and cured Loch … Continued
By Hebridean mountain biker (and British Mountain Bike Marathon Champion) Kerry MacPhee. Kerry is sponsored by Loch Duart I snuck off to Portugal on my own last weekend to do a Category 1 race and I’m delighted to report that the gamble paid off and I got a ‘podium finish’! Rather … Continued
Salmon Rearing Here’s some good news from out at sea. Since we began operations in 1999, our approach to salmon rearing has been based on low stocking densities in small pens linked by galvanised iron walkways to allow for close observation and ‘hands-on’ husbandry. These have worked well for … Continued
