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Article: Van Camp Seafood Company, Inc.
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Van Camp Seafood Company, Inc.
4510 Executive Dr., #300
San Diego, California 92121-3029
U.S.A.
(619) 597-4200
Fax: (619) 597-4568
Private Company
Incorporated:
1914
Employees:
2,700
Sales:
$440 million (1991)
SICs:
2091 Canned & Cured Fish & Seafoods
Van Camp Seafood Company, Inc. produces Chicken of the Sea
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the third most popular brand of canned tuna fish in the United States
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as well as several other seafood products, such as canned salmon, crabmeat, shrimp, and oysters.
Canned tuna was first processed and marketed in 1903, the year the sardine catch suddenly dwindled. An enterprising fisherman processed the little-known tuna fish (named
thunnos
by the ancient Greeks, ...