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Article: Lafjord sues Marine Harvest over Costco private label contract: suit alleges short weights were part of plan to oust Lafjord.(Retail)
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- Seafood Business
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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Lafjord USA of Mill Creek, Wash., is suing Marine Harvest over a smoked-salmon contract with Costco Wholesale. Lafjord accuses Marine Harvest of intentionally sabotaging its contract with Costco so that the salmon supplier could sell smoked salmon direct to Costco.
Marine Harvest supplied salmon for Costco's Kirkland Signature smoked-salmon program as a subcontractor to Lafjord until December 2003, according to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle in mid-December.
Lafjord says it played an instrumental role in developing the Kirkland Signature program prior to the line's launch in 1998 by researching facilities, testing flavors and ...