KB Food Company is Australia’s largest seafood company operating at all levels of the supply chain including; catching, processing, manufacturing, importing, exporting and wholesaling. We provide over 100,000 tonnes of seafood annually to leading foodservice operators and major supermarkets.
Our brands include, KB Seafood Co, Just Caught Frozen Seafood, KB’s, By George and Kailis Bros, which is used under licence. We are also one of the most awarded and successful food service operators in Australia and the largest privately owned operator of Western Rock Lobster.
Kailis Bros in March 2016 sold 90 per cent of its seafood processing, wholesale and export business to the Chinese conglomerate Legend. Legend is best known for owning the world’s biggest personal computer maker, Lenovo.
Two Kailis brothers have reportedly left the seafood processing business founded by their Rich List family, three years after selling a majority stake to Chinese-owned Legend Holdings.
David versus Goliath in fishing Peru
A little more than three years ago, the government of the People's Republic of China surprised the world by reporting that its distant water industrial vessels, which fish for squid at the edge of the...