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Get on Board for Seafood Week 2018
One of the major ways that Seafish supports the retail sector is via Seafood Week – an annual week in the promotional calendar when the UK wide seafood industry, in all its many guises, can champion and celebrate and promote seafood to the nation’s consumers and media.
Seafood Week celebrates the amazing fish and shellfish on offer in the UK, creating the perfect platform for businesses to encourage more people, to eat more fish, more often – and ideally increase their sales.
Seafood Week 2018 will take place between 5-12 October 2018.
What is it all about?
Seafood Week is all about the seafood industry working together to celebrate and promote the great variety of fish and shellfish to be enjoyed in the UK – whether eating fish or shellfish at home, enjoying a fish supper at a fish and chip shop, eating out at restaurants and cafes, or a lunchtime sandwich.
The annual promotional campaign comprises eight days of consumer-focused, cross-sector industry activity – with Seafood Week aiming to unite the seafood industry and celebrate the wide variety of seafood available to the consumer in the UK. It is a pan-industry campaign that is supported by retailers, friers, mongers, restaurateurs, processors and foodservice outlets – and the week is the UK’s biggest seafood promotion – with one of its aims being to encourage more consumers to purchase more fish and shellfish, more often.
Seafood Week aims to celebrate the wonderful seafood available in the UK to the consumer, which will hopefully have an impact on the amount of fish and shellfish sold. The event is all about celebration and adventure, and during which Seafish will undertake to:
• Promote seafood as one of the healthiest, most convenient and delicious foods available.
• Promote the fact that there is a huge variety of different fish and shellfish to be enjoyed by consumers in the UK – in excess of 100 different varieties available in the UK – possessing different flavours, different textures, etc.
• Promote the fact that seafood is incredibly versatile – there are literally thousands of different seafood recipes and ways to cook seafood.
• Make consumers aware of seafood’s great value for money.
Sponsors
on board to date...
Billingsgate Fish Merchant Association Billingsgate Seafood School
E Ashton Fishmonger
Dawnfresh Trout Ltd
Falfish
Fishmongers’ Company
GCH Fishmongers’
Grimsby Fish Dock Enterprises Grimsby Fish Market
M & J Seafood
Marine Harvest
New England Seafood International Ltd Seafish
Severn & Wye
Snowden & Co
Sterling White Halibut
Stolt Sea Farms
The City of London
The Saucy Fish Co.
Vin Sullivan
A special thanks to all our sponsors and the many volunteers and contributors who help to make this event possible.
Are you interested
in sponsoring the event?
Please contact Caroline on 01234 211686 for more details
National Federation of Fishmongers www.fishmongers.info
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