 Legal Sea Foods Campaign Making Big Splash on East Coast September 28, 2004
"The 'Alaska Wild Salmon' brand is making its way to high end restaurants, retailers and homes of consumers across the nation. Through a creative matching grant program, the state is getting more bang for its marketing buck. The Legal Sea Foods promotion demonstrates the success of this public-private partnership," said the governor. Roger Berkowitz, chief executive officer of Legal Sea Foods, met with the governor today to brief him on the success of their promotional campaign, which positions Alaska salmon as a premier product in their restaurants, located from Florida to Boston. Legal Sea Foods is a privately-held Boston-based restaurant group with 30 locations. "Legal Sea Foods is in the fish business. Serving the finest, freshest, purest fish is what we do," said Roger Berkowitz. "We and others in the food business have always appreciated Alaska wild salmon as the finest in the world." Berkowitz told the governor that demand for wild Alaska salmon has increased. This year, Legal Sea Foods plans to buy and sell 200,000 pounds of Alaska Wild Salmon --2-1/2 times more than they did last year. Also during the press conference, John Garner, president of NorQuest Seafoods, Inc., a division of Trident Seafoods, announced that up to 25 workers will be employed during commercial fishing's off-season winter months at the NorQuest seafood processing facility in Ketchikan. The company will begin processing a new Alaska salmon product that will be marketed nationally under the Chicken of the Sea label. "The initial launch of the new product will utilize over one million pounds of pink salmon, which will be processed as skinless, boneless smoked portions available in a retort pouch," said Garner. "Alaska's seafood industry is creative and responsive to the market," said the governor. "The addition of these jobs in Ketchikan and the success of Legal Sea Food's marketing efforts on the East Coast show that the future is indeed bright for Alaska wild salmon and our hardworking fishermen." The Alaska Salmon Marketing Program is administered by the Alaska Department of Commerce, under the direction of Commissioner Edgar Blatchford. The program is intended to assist Alaska salmon marketers to fund industry's "best thinking" on how to most effectively market Alaska wild salmon.
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