THE family behind Macduff Shellfish, one of Europe’s leading seafood processing businesses, has secured a windfall of around £50 million after selling the firm to a Canadian buyer.

Macduff Shellfish Group is being snapped up by a Canadian seafood firm in a deal worth nearly £100m. Clearwater Seafoods will pay £98.4m for the wild shellfish processor, ...

Emergency services have been dealing with a suspected gas leak at a seafood processing plant in Aberdeenshire. Three fire appliances and a chemical incident support unit were called to Macduff ...

U.K.-based private equity firm Change Capital Partners has agreed to sell its investment stake in Macduff Shellfish Group to Clearwater Seafoods, a Canadian vertically integrated seafood company ...

Macduff Shellfish say their vessel has been used as a “pawn” in a fishing dispute between the UK and France after it was seized. The north-east firm’s scallop trawler Cornelis has been ...

Macduff Shellfish was set up in 1985 in Macduff, buying and selling live shellfish direct from the fishermen for freight to Europe. The factory in Mintlaw was bought in 1996 as the company ...

France has detained a British scallop trawler owned by Macduff Shellfish and given a verbal warning to another fishing boat in waters off its coast. French maritime minister Annick Girardin said ...

London firm Change Capital Partners said it sold its 50% interest in Macduff Shellfish Group to Canadian peer business Clearwater Seafoods in a deal that values the European wild-caught shellfish ...

MACDUFF Shellfish has acquired scallop fishing firm Scott Trawlers in a deal thought to be worth more than £10 million. Dumfries-based Scott Trawlers employs 50 people and runs five vessels ...

Macduff Shellfish Group is being snapped up by a Canadian seafood firm in a deal worth nearly £100m. Clearwater Seafoods will pay £98.4m for the wild shellfish processor, ...

Three fire appliances and a chemical incident support unit were called to Macduff Shellfish premises in Mintlaw shortly before 06:30. It is understood there were no serious injuries and that the ...

Change Capital Partners has sold its stake in Macduff Shellfish Group to Clearwater Seafoods. The sale puts Macduff at a valuation of 98.4 million pounds. Based in Scotland, Macduff is a shellfish ...