ESTONIA
Experiments with different products The company is constantly looking for new opportunities to improve its processes and products. The imposition of quotas on the raw material is a constraint, says Mr Kärberg, so we have to constantly innovate. One new product the company is working on is based on fillets of bream. This is a small bony fish, but the company in collaboration with a cannery is testing the production of canned fillets of bream. Other products being considered are dried and smoked fish using salmon. We are trying several
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different products, says Jelena Aganits, not in large volumes, but to find alternatives as we never know which way the quotas will move. Last autumn the perch harvest was very good and had enough fish to see the company through the winter, the spring and part of the summer, but two years ago it did not have enough fish and our employees were twiddling their thumbs. The freshwater fish business is affected by factors such as the state of stocks over which Peipsi Grupp Holding has little control, in addition competition from other processors is fierce, but the company has
Peipsi Grupp Holding Company Fact File Peipsi Grupp Holding Jarve tee 41 42001 Lohusuu Ida-Virumaa, Estonia Tel.: +372 3321462 Fax: +372 3321464 Mob: +372 56359272 grupppeipsi@hot.ee Managing director: Paul Kärberg Sales manager: Jelena Aganits
several assets including the large share of quotas, two EU-approved plants, a dedicated team of
Activities: Fishing, processing Species: Freshwater fish from Lake Peipsi – pike-perch, pike, perch, bream, roach Products: Fresh fish, fillets, frozen fillets Processing plants: Two, both with EU approval numbers Quotas: About one third of total Lake Peipsi quotas. In 2012 total quotas on Lake Peipsi were 3,611 tonnes
employees, and a culture of experimenting and risk-taking that will stand it in good stead in the future.
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