Thai Union Fills New Position of North America Sustainability Director

Roxanne Nanninga will lead sustainability strategy for Chicken of the Sea International, Frozen Foods

SAN DIEGO--()--Thai Union, a global seafood leader with ambitious growth goals and a dedication to sustainability and innovation, has filled the new position of Sustainability Director for North America.

Roxanne Nanninga will now oversee the implementation and coordination of sustainability strategy for Chicken of the Sea and Thai Union in North America, including expansion of the company’s traceability and consumer education programs.

Nanninga comes to Thai Union from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) where she was a seafood markets specialist at the EDF’s Fishery Solutions Center. In this capacity, she was responsible for working with the seafood industry to improve supply chain efficiencies and promote well-managed fisheries.

One of her most notable accomplishments at EDF was development of the Pacific Groundfish Markets Development Initiative, a coalition of seafood businesses, NGOs and fish providers dedicated to durable markets for seafood products from the U.S. West Coast.

She is also the founder and CEO of TRUfish, an integrated seafood fraud prevention program that combines global food fraud intelligence and testing.

“With the challenges and opportunities that sustainable seafood brings, Thai Union has a leadership role to play through the delivery of our SeaChange® program. With her broad-based NGO and private-industry experience, Roxanne is a leader who can affect lasting positive change across the U.S. industry and the world’s oceans,” said Dr. Darian McBain, Thai Union’s Global Director of Sustainable Development. “We are very excited to have Roxanne join the team.”

Nanninga earned a bachelor’s degree at Linfield College in McMinnville, Ore., and a master’s degree and International Development Policy Graduate Certificate from Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University.

In 2016, Chicken of the Sea launched Trace Your Can, the industry’s first comprehensive program allowing consumers to trace their seafood from ocean to plate. Users who enter the 10-digit code on the bottom of their can learn about their seafood’s species including current stock status; where it was caught, processed and canned; the specific fishing vessel and fishing method used; and other ways that Chicken of the Sea supports sustainability.

For more information on Chicken of the Sea’s sustainability efforts, visit https://chickenofthesea.com/company/sustainability .

To learn more about Thai Union’s commitment to its sustainability strategy program, SeaChange®, go to http://seachangesustainability.org/.

ABOUT THAI UNION PCL

Thai Union Group PCL is the world’s seafood leader bringing high quality, healthy, tasty and innovative seafood products to customers across the world for almost 40 years.

Today, Thai Union is regarded as the world’s largest producer of shelf-stable tuna products with annual sales exceeding THB 125 billion (US$ 3.7 billion) and a global workforce of over 46,000 people who are dedicated to pioneering sustainable, innovative seafood products.

The company’s global brand portfolio includes market-leading international brands such as Chicken of the Sea, John West, Petit Navire, Parmentier, Mareblu, King Oscar, and Rügen Fisch and Thai-leading brands SEALECT, Fisho, Bellotta and Marvo.

As a company committed to innovation and globally responsible behaviour, Thai Union is proud to be a member of the United Nations Global Compact, and a founding member of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF). In 2015, Thai Union introduced its SeaChange® sustainability strategy. Thai Union’s on-going work on sustainability issues has been recognized by its inclusion in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices Emerging Markets (DJSI) in 2014. In 2016 Thai Union was named to DJSI for the third consecutive year. http://www.thaiunion-sustainability.com/.

About Chicken of the Sea

Founded in 1914, Chicken of the Sea (COS) is a leading provider of healthy, delicious and responsibly sourced seafood, offering not only a robust product line but the recipes and meal-planning insights needed to inspire seafood lovers to greater culinary creativity. The company provides tuna, salmon, clams, crab, oysters, shrimp, mackerel, kipper snacks and sardines in cans, cups and pouches as well as innovative new products consistent with seafood’s growing status as a healthy “new” protein choice in America.

Headquartered in San Diego, COS uses responsible fishing practices to source its seafood products from around the world, and packages them at a state-of-the-art processing facility in Lyons, Georgia, as well as at third-party facilities. The company is led by a team of industry veterans with more than 300 years of collective experience in the packaged seafood industry.

For information on Chicken of the Sea, including recipes, serving suggestions and nutritional and meal-planning insights as well as information on the latest new Chicken of the Sea products, go to www.chickenofthesea.com.

Follow the Mermaid on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ChickenoftheSea, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/COSMermaid and on Instagram at http://instagram.com/ChickenOfTheSeaOfficial.

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Release Summary

Thai Union has filled the new position of North American Sustainability Director responsible for Chicken of the Sea International and Frozen Foods.

Contacts

Amusement Park PR
Bob Ochsner or Cristina Pellizzon
714-881-2320