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10/07/2014
33 Jobs At Co. Down Seafood Plant
A company that processes seafood in County Down is to create 33 jobs through a £933,000 investment, it has been announced.
Kilkeel Seafoods, based at Kilkeel Harbour, is expanding operations for wholetail scampi and will supply to Whitby Seafoods, its parent company based in north Yorkshire.
The new jobs are expected to be provided over the next two years. Invest NI has offered support of £99,000 for the 33 new posts through its Jobs Fund.
Kilkeel Seafood currently employs 140 people.
John Hood, Invest NI food and tourism director, said: "This is a very significant and strategic investment by Whitby which will strengthen the position of Kilkeel Seafoods within the wider business and is being made because of the quality of products processed at the port from scampi sourced from local and Irish trawlers.
"The consolidation of scampi processing at Kilkeel is, therefore, a very important boost for the local fishing industry and the wider economy of the County Down coastal region, the centre of a fish processing industry in Northern Ireland.
"Support from the Jobs Fund will leverage almost £500,000 annually in direct salaries and wages of the new employees as well as offering opportunities to a broad range of suppliers including local trawler owners and crews."
(IT/MH)
Kilkeel Seafoods, based at Kilkeel Harbour, is expanding operations for wholetail scampi and will supply to Whitby Seafoods, its parent company based in north Yorkshire.
The new jobs are expected to be provided over the next two years. Invest NI has offered support of £99,000 for the 33 new posts through its Jobs Fund.
Kilkeel Seafood currently employs 140 people.
John Hood, Invest NI food and tourism director, said: "This is a very significant and strategic investment by Whitby which will strengthen the position of Kilkeel Seafoods within the wider business and is being made because of the quality of products processed at the port from scampi sourced from local and Irish trawlers.
"The consolidation of scampi processing at Kilkeel is, therefore, a very important boost for the local fishing industry and the wider economy of the County Down coastal region, the centre of a fish processing industry in Northern Ireland.
"Support from the Jobs Fund will leverage almost £500,000 annually in direct salaries and wages of the new employees as well as offering opportunities to a broad range of suppliers including local trawler owners and crews."
(IT/MH)
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