Blue Horizon Organic Seafood Co. announced today significant progress in making its brands and products available to US retailers and consumers. The company, which markets sustainable seafood and meal solutions featuring organic ingredients, has been picked up for distribution by Nature’s Best and Unified Western Grocers, two highly respected distributors serving natural/organic, specialty, and conventional retailers in the western states.
“More and more people are demanding clean and healthy seafood that respects both the ocean environment and its sea animal populations. We’re proud to be a front-running brand to meet that demand,” Tim Redmond said, president of Blue Horizon Organic Seafood Co., Inc. “The organic seafood category on the whole is gaining significant interest, and consumers are becoming more conscious about organic aquaculture and the significance of their food choices both for their own health and for the health of the earth.”
Unified Western Grocers and Nature’s Best will carry Blue Horizon’s Organic Skillet Meals in four savory flavors, Shrimp & Penne Alla Vodka, Shrimp & Scampi Rotini, Shrimp & Penne Alfredo and Shrimp & Pesto Farfalle. They will also distribute four varieties of organic breaded shrimp and Last Minute Chef all natural spring rolls starting in July.
Blue Horizon’s founders, John Battendieri and Tim Redmond, are best known for building natural and organic food brands such as Santa Cruz Organics and Eden. All of Blue Horizon’s seafood products are sourced in strict compliance with conservation policies. Blue Horizon is improving the health of the world’s fisheries and the marine environment, and is working in support of conservation efforts of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the Marine Stewardship Council and the development of US standards for organic aquaculture.
Unified Western Grocers, Inc. is a $4 billion retailer-owned wholesale grocery cooperative that supplies independent supermarkets and specialty retailers throughout the western United States via its three major distribution centers from Seattle down to L.A. Nature’s Best provides certified organic, natural, and specialty products to retail and foodservice customers throughout the western U.S., Alaska, and Hawaii. Nature’s Best is one of the country’s only Certified Organic Distributors and is the largest privately owned wholesaler-distributor of health and natural food products in the Natural Products Industry.
Blue Horizon was founded in 2005 to build a branded, consumer-driven seafood business to supply sustainable, wild-caught and organic seafood products to North America, while simultaneously helping protect the health and supply of aquatic ecosystems. Learn more at www.bluehorizonseafood.com.