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FarCenter

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2. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, but a subsidiary of Dongwan Group

Reply to Vinca (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 09:31 AM

Dec 2016

http://starkist.com/about-starkist

Canneries are in Samoa and Ecuador.

Dongwon has a tuna catching fleet. I'd guess that labor costs and environmentalists have driven tuna fishing out of the US.

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Both Samoa canneries shutting down one for three weeks, the other indefinitely [View all] TexasTowelie Dec 2016 OP

It's owned by a Korean company. I had no idea Starkist wasn't a U.S. company. Vinca Dec 2016 #1

Headquartered in Pittsburgh, but a subsidiary of Dongwan Group FarCenter Dec 2016 #2