Ocean Beauty Seafoods history

The Pocatello, Idaho, distribution operation was launched in 1956 as Idaho Fish & Poultry and served customers in southeast Idaho.

Ocean Beauty moved into the Montana market in 1964, when it opened an office in Helena to distribute the company's seafood products that were either flown in or trucked in.

Perhaps the most important factor that led to a settlement was the 1968 discovery of oil on Alaska's North Slope.

Each Alaska Native born on or before December 18, 1971 received 100 shares of stock in their regional corporation.

In 1978, Ocean Beauty opened a production plant in Cordova, Alaska, a remote town situated on Prince William Sound and close to the world-famous Copper River, where some of the more prized salmon in the world thrived.

In 1979, Ocean Beauty was acquired by Sealaska Corporation, an Alaskan regional Native-owned corporation established several years earlier by the United States government.

In 1982, it opened a distribution branch in Astoria, Washington, to serve customers in Oregon and Washington; this was supplemented by a nearby production facility.

Another development in 1984 was the opening of the Seattle distribution branch, which shared space with the company's headquarters and acted as a hub for seafood coming in from Alaska, Canada, Oregon, and Washington.

In 1988, Ocean Beauty acquired another seasonal processing plant, this one in Naknek, Alaska.

By the end of August 1990, the terms of a sale were completed and Ocean Beauty was acquired by Ika Muda International, a company based in Pekalongan, Indonesia.

In 1995, Ocean Beauty also took steps to build up some brand recognition, as its distribution operations in Astoria, Boise, Helena, Pocatello, Portland, Salt Lake City, Seattle, and Spokane all adopted the Ocean Beauty name.

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Also in 2002, Ocean Beauty acquired three Alaskan production plants: Cook Inlet Processing, located on the Nikiski Peninsula, and processing plants located in Alitak and Excursion Inlet purchased from Wards Cove Packing Co.

Ocean Beauty opened a new distribution operation in Phoenix in July 2004.