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 company’s turnover was achieved in exports in tough international market …
Don’t fall for the line about blaming salmon farming
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 trout in rivers in the ‘aquaculture zone’ of the west …
USP Essential to Raise the Bar in Salmon Marketing
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 the spot market to sell fish. To avoid this scenario, …
News from Kerry
Scottish mountain biker, Kerry MacPhee, from South Uist in The Hebrides, is sponsored by Loch Duart Hi Everyone, I’m just back from training camp and racing in Spain. The camp went well and we got some really good quality work in based on three sessions a day consisting of two bike sessions and one gym (apart from on recovery …