Nautisco Seafood Manufacturing Ltd. was established in 2007 by Nautisco Inc., a Canada-based company whose shareholders include individuals with prior seafood processing experience in Eastern Europe. Nautisco Seafood’s facility is located near Steung Hav port in Cambodia's coastal Sihanoukville province. The company initially focussed on processing wild shrimp, but plans to later expand into other seafood products. Production commenced in September 2009, with production capacity of 10 tons of shrimp per day. The plant’s size allows future capacity expansion of up to 30 to 40 tons of shrimp per day. The company sources its raw materials primarily from local fishermen who net shrimp from small boats along Cambodia’s 440 kilometer coastline. In the past their catch was sold mostly to processors in Vietnam and Thailand. With the opening of Nautisco, Cambodian seafood can be exported as a finished product labeled “Made in Cambodia”. The Company distributes its finished products in Cambodia. Nautisco Seafood is 31.48% owned by Cambodia's first private equity fund, Leopard Cambodia Fund.
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