“Habrá más concentraciones de empresas y se acelerará la internacionalizacion”

Ignacio J. Kleiman habla desde Miami con acento argentino. Socio director de Antarctica Advisors, la compañía es una de las únicas consultoras especializadas en el sector pesquero. “Vemos esta industria como un tablero de ajedrez a nivel mundial y somos jugadores”.

– ¿Va a continuar el movimiento de consolidación de empresas en la industria pesquera?

– Absolutamente. Estamos hablando de una industria global, hay mucho movimiento de producto. El pescado está donde está, si quieres consumir pescado de agua fría en lugares cálidos tienes que moverlo, y viceversa. Además está fragmentada, hay compañías muy grandes y miles de medianas y pequeñas. A medida que la industria se vuelve más globalizada y competitiva va a tener que haber más consolidaciones porque requiere capital, calidad, eficiencia, management? Enviar productos perecederos como los pesqueros y de alto valor, con el añadido de que son para alimentación, tiene muchas barreras. Eso requiere de un cierto nivel de sofisticación.

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Miami – July 22^nd 2015 –Antarctica Advisors LLC, a leading Food Industry-focused investment banking firm, acted as U.S. investment banking advisor to South Africa’s Oceana Group Ltd. in the acquisition of Louisiana-based Daybrook Fisheries, Inc., which was completed today.

Johannesburg-listed Oceana Group has today completed the acquisition of Daybrook Fisheries for a purchase consideration of USD 382.3 million. Daybrook Fisheries is a leading privately-owned, vertically-integrated fishing company based in Louisiana engaged in the processing of Gulf Menhaden into fishmeal and fish oil for domestic and international markets. Read more

Miami – May 20^th 2015 –Antarctica Advisors LLC, the leading Food Industry-focused investment banking firm, acts as U.S. investment banking advisor to South Africa’s Oceana Group Ltd. in its announced transaction with Louisiana-based Daybrook Fisheries, Inc.

Johannesburg-listed Oceana Group announced today that it has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Daybrook Fisheries for a purchase consideration of USD 382.3 million. Oceana Group is majority controlled by Tiger Brands, a leading economic group in South Africa, and investment fund Brimstone Ltd. Daybrook Fisheries is a leading privately-owned, vertically-integrated fishing company engaged in the processing of Gulf Menhaden into fishmeal and fish oil. Read more

South African firm Oceana’s $382.3 million (€341.1 million) acquisition of US menhaden fishing and processing group DaybrookFisheries may embolden other foreign companies to begin investing in the fragmented US seafood sector, and put pressure on domestic players to get involved as well, according to Ignacio Kleiman of Antarctica Advisors, the sole US investment banking advisor on the Oceana deal.

“This will give a lot of confidence for larger foreign companies to put money into the US sector,” Kleiman told IntraFish. “A lot of companies have looked but they haven’t pulled the trigger because it can be hard to understand.”

“This is not just a big deal for Oceana, but for the industry as a whole,” he added. “Other players are going to look into the US opportunities more seriously.” Read more

The trustee selling off the assets of shuttered US Company Contessa Premium Foods received a flood of 40 inquiries from parties interested in purchasing Contessa’s assets during the first 36 hours after the company’s closure went public.

There is an unusually high level of interest, an unusually prompt response, Steve Victor, senior vice president of the trustee, management consulting firm Development

Specialists Inc., told Undercurrent News on Friday.

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