Whitelink Seafoods Ltd is investing over £1m in creating a new freezing area, loading bay and work area. And the 38-year-old family firm are also looking to open new markets at home and abroad. Sales executive James Sutherland Junior, 34, said: "Investment in a recession could be considered a gamble, but business is a gamble."

Their investment will also assist Scottish fishermen, as Whitelink are looking for new suppliers of shellfish, crabs and prawns. Currently, they buy at markets including Fraserburgh, Peterhead, Scrabster and Kinlochbervie. The company has recently returned from the Brussels seafood exhibition, where Mr Sutherland said: "We're developing as we're experiencing a demand for prawns, in particular, from counties like France, Italy and Spain."

Whitelink was founded in 1974 by James Sutherland Senior and his wife Marie, who are joint managing directors. The firm, who supply major supermarkets in Britain and Europe and to leading wholesalers, currently employ 150 in their Fraserburgh plant and this will increase to 180 once the development is complete.

Printer friendly version

Email this article to a friend

Bookmark this

---