Loch Fyne Oysters
Loch Fyne Oysters is a company that was originally founded to grow and sell oysters and later expanded its product range to include a range of other seafood, fish (particularly salmon), meat and game. The company also previously owned the Loch Fyne restaurant chain, which was taken over by the British brewery and restaurant company Greene King in 2007. The Loch Fyne Oyster Bar in Cairndow on the banks of Loch Fyne (Scotland) is still part of Loch Fyne Oysters. In 2014 Loch Fyne Oysters received the Queen's Award for Enterprise, International Trade.
history
The company takes its name from Loch Fyne, an inlet on the west coast of Scotland, and was founded in 1978 by John Noble, owner of nearby Ardkinglas House , and Andy Lane, a fish farmer and biologist. Initially, the company sold self-grown oysters to various restaurants in Great Britain. In the early 1980s, the company diversified into other seafood supplies and opened a smokehouse to smoke salmon and other fish.
In 1988, the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar opened on the banks of Loch Fyne near Cairndow . After establishing more restaurants in Nottingham and Peterborough , Noble and Lane planned a major expansion in the late 1990s and founded the Loch Fyne restaurant chain in 1998 with two other entrepreneurs.
Johnny Noble died in 2002 and Loch Fyne Oysters was wholly owned by his employees in 2003, who sold the company to Scottish Seafood Investments, a joint venture of the private equity investor Northern Link Ltd., in 2012. and The Scottish Salmon Company.
The restaurant chain, with 38 restaurants across the UK, was bought by the British brewery and restaurant company Greene King in August 2007.
In addition to the Loch Fyne restaurant chain, Loch Fyne Oysters also supplies other restaurants with oysters, mussels, crustaceans, salmon and other fish and sells the products internationally and via the Internet. The company sells around 2 million oysters of the highest quality every year and has been awarded several quality labels, including the Queen's Award for Enterprise: International Trade in 2014.
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- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-17098217
- ↑ http://uk.reuters.com/article/greene-king-acquisition-idUKWLB030420070807
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.lochfyne.com/about-us
