Our Story

The Past

Associated Seafoods was established in 2010, when it brought together two of the most respected companies within Scotland’s food industry – Lossie Seafoods, a specialist in smoked fish and Moray Seafoods, a leading business in shellfish production. Lossie Seafoods was established in 1913 and focused on traditionally smoked seafood. The spirit of those traditions has been passed down over decades and continues to underpin the values Associated Seafoods holds today. Moray Seafoods was established in 1958 and has played an important role in the local economy since then. The company was a pioneer in the processing of scampi, which is still a prominent product in the Associated Seafoods range.

View from Low Street in Buckie

The River Spey

The Present

Associated Seafoods has followed the lead of both Moray Seafoods and Lossie Seafoods in ensuring that we have a strong seafood culture. We respect the finest quality of our raw materials allowing us to consistently produce superior products.

We are now a leading Scottish seafood processor, with our focus on Scottish Smoked Salmon and Scottish Langoustine Scampi Cores. Our Buckie sites are modern processing facilities built to the highest food standards and in which our highly skilled team of salmon filleters, curers, smokers, and packers carry out many of the processes by hand.

We have made significant investment in the business to ensure we have a strong team who can continue to grow the business. We supply several top food distributors and leading supermarkets across the world and are always striving to innovate further both in terms of product and process.

The Future

In March 2022 we acquired the fish processing facility in Arbroath formerly known as RR. Spink & Sons, part of the Dawnfresh Group. In doing so we welcomed approximately 249 new colleagues to the Group and allayed fears of job losses in a town with a long-held fish processing tradition. Our Arbroath site produces a wide range of smoked salmon and other fish products.

Our sites in both Buckie and Arbroath are major suppliers to Marks & Spencer, who are delighted that their two key suppliers of ready-to-eat seafood have joined ranks. We are thrilled that the Arbroath site has become part of our group, significantly expanding our production capability in both volume and range. Both sites share the same passion for seafood, and the teams very much enjoy working in both locations as part of our enlarged ASL ‘family’.

We have always recognised that fishing is in the lifeblood of the local communities in which we operate and we work hard to sustain this part of our history, believing that, along with our staff, it is intrinsic to our current and future success.