Editor’s note: This story that originally appeared on Undercurrent News on Tuesday, June 4. Atlantic Cape Fisheries has provided a response, produced immediately below, addressing some of the claims made in the article.
In response to inquiries of Atlantic Capes Fisheries, Inc. (“ACF”) with corporate offices in Cape May, NJ provides the following information:
ACF’s continues to further its goal of building a strong sustainable natural resource seafood harvesting, processing, and marketing company. To the best of ACF’s knowledge, Mar-Lees Seafood is not for sale and ACF has not entered into any agreement to purchase the Mar-Lees Seafood’s business. ACF, along with many other seafood companies, has expressed interest in purchasing Mar-Lees’ processing facility and Mar-Lees and its’ related companies’ equipment, which have been widely marketed for sale. As with any such opportunity, ACF is pursuing with diligence the issues associated with potentially purchasing and integrating the 10 North Front Street facility into its operations. Until such time as ACF completes its due diligence it has no further comment concerning Mar-Lees Seafood or the 10 North Front Street facility.
June 4, 2015 — US scallop firm Atlantic Capes Fisheries is in talks for a deal for the plant of stricken supplier Mar-Lees Seafood, sources told Undercurrent News.
As Atlantic Capes and Mar-Lees reportedly negotiate a deal, several more staff are understood to have recently left Mar-Lees.
Atlantic Capes is thought to be looking to buy the 66,000 square foot New Bedford plant, or enter into a lease with an option to buy, sources said.
Daniel Cohen, CEO of Atlantic Capes and Jeff Bolton, chief operating officer, did not respond to request for a comment from Undercurrent.
A spokesman for Mar-Lees also did not return request for comment to Undercurrent.
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