Higher Liner Foods is a Nova Scotia based company that is North America’s largest processor of value-added frozen seafood products under a number of brands like Fisher Boy, High Liner and Catch of the Day. Its annual revenue exceeds $1 billion annually and the company has 1,200 employees. Athough it is listed on the TSX, the Hennigar family owns 38% of the stock. It recently celebrating its 125th Anniversary.
In this episode of the Insights Podcast, we talked with the company’s CEO, Paul Jewer,about the company’s success and how it pivoted from being a harvester of fish to exclusively a processor of fish following the cod moratorium in the 1990s. The company sources 20 species of fish from around the world for its three processing plants, the largest of which is in Lunenburg with nearly 300 employees. It is yet another story of a successful Atlantic Canadian company competing internationally and generating export revenues for our region.
