Espersen Catalogue 2

Puff

Espersen is a puff pastry expert. In our factory in Koszalin we produce our own puff pastry dough from the ground with only the best ingredients. This ensures that we deliver a superior quality product and allows us to differentiate our offering to match different price levels. We prepare the puff pastry products with our freshly made sauces from our own kitchen where they are made from the ground using ingredients you will find in your own kitchen.

The result is products that quickly become consumer favorites and deliver superior sales to our customers. We offer a wide range of sizes from small snacks to large family sizes.

Delicious Seafood with passion

Product catalogue

Welcome to Espersen

Since the beginning in 1937 on the small Danish island of Bornholm, white fish has been at the heart of what we do. Espersen is a world leader in the processing of frozen fish with modern production plants in Denmark, Poland, UK and Vietnam and representation offices in UK, France, Germany, and Denmark.

We are an internationally recognized supplier of high quality products, delivering to some of the utmost quality-conscious customers in both Europe and the USA, some of which count the largest multi-national food corporations in the world. Maintaining and delivering the highest quality is paramount to us, and the seafood produced by Espersen is recognized for its superior quality.

Natural fish

Espersen is your guarantee for high quality, natural fish. Through the last more than 85 years we have built a strong expertise in filleting our own white fish. Based on our own filleting operation we can offer high flexibility, full control over the production and complete traceability.

We rely on the raw material we source, which is predominantly white fish species, such as Atlantic cod, haddock, Pacific cod, farmed cod, and saithe.

Everything we do is geared towards continued access to fish resources, so carefully managed fisheries are vital to us. In consequence, Espersen is internationally renowned in the industry as a responsible company to whom sustainable development is a natural, vital part of our day-to-day operations. With the support of our highly skilled and committed workforce, we continue to take the required steps to help lead the fish industry on a sustainable pathway.

Our cuts

Anchored in our long history we have built strong competencies in filleting white fish to ensure the most optimal utilization of the fish and matching this to our customers’ specifications. However, fish is a natural resource and sizes never fits perfectly if the specifications are too narrow. Broader specifications will allow for greater utilization and thereby less foodwaste.

Whatever the price point you are looking to match, we can find a cut that will fit with these requirements. We have a wide variety of pack formats for both retail and B2B customers.

Cod – Atlantic, Pacific & Farmed

Gadus morhua and Gadus macrocephalus

We supply fillets, loins, tails and portions with protective glaze in various sizes and packagings. We can provide skinless and skin on products. We also have lightly salted Atlantic cod in the finest quality. We use no additives or colorants in our filleting operation.

High quality and sustainably wild-caught Atlantic and Pacific cod certified by MSC.

Farmed cod is a new solution to guarantee stable supplies. Based on the strong experience in farming salmon and other marine species, Norway has become a leading country in farming cod also. Along the coasts of Norway, there are already several cod farmers supplying into the market, making fresh cod available throughout the year. The farmed cod grows slowly in the cold fjords of Norway, which makes it a strong fish. The farms are well regulated and the regulations play an important role in promoting a responsible and sustainable aquaculture practice in cod farming. Comparing to other farmed proteins farmed cod has a much higher feed efficiency and thus uses much less feed and energy to grow the fish to the desired size. This leads to a low carbon footprint compared to other farmed proteins. Furthermore

farmed cod leads to a reduction in bycatch and habitat damage.

Farmed cod is typically more uniform in size compared to wild-caught cod due to the controlled feeding and growth conditions. They typically reach market size of around 3-5 kg when harvested with a slightly thicker body than their wild counterparts. This can be attributed to the consistent diet and lack of the physical challenges normally found in the wild, despite regulations on fish density within the fish pen.

Furthermore farmed cod has many advantages:

Supplied fresh – single frozen finish goods available throughout the year

Stable supply and less price fluctuations Farmed in Norway (only Norwegian origin)

Controlled and sustainable sourcing and catching methods Global Gap certified

Haddock

Melanogrammus aeglefinus

We supply fillets, loins, tails and portions with protective glaze in various sizes and packagings. We can provide skinless and skin on products. We do not use additives or colorants in our natural production, as we want the fish to have its natural appearance.

High quality and sustainably wild-caught haddock certified by MSC.

Caught in Northeast Atlantic (FAO 27). We produce SF and DF.

We supply fillets, loins, tails and portions with protective glaze in various sizes and packagings. We can provide skinless and skin on products. We do not use additives or colorants in our natural production, as we want the fish to

Fish Blocks Saithe

From our filleting operation we are also producing high quality fish blocks. We produce our fish blocks according to the same high standards as for our filleting operation and the Espersen fish blocks has a bone count that is stricter than the Codex quality requirements.

We offer a wide range of blocks: B&P block MSC Loinless fillet block MSC

mince block MSC

mince block MSC

Flatfish assortment

Since 2008 we have been filleting flatfish species in our operations and from our plant in Poland we offer a full scale European production platform for our customers, including flexibility and full control of the value chain. We do not use any additives or colorants in our filleting operation, as we believe in the value of working with only high quality raw material and the appeal of a

more natural appearance of the fish. All our flat fish raw material is wild caught and from sustainable fisheries certified by MSC. We are filleting following species: Yellowfin Sole (Limanda

Yellowtail flounder

Rock Sole

and Plaice

We can make both IQF and married fillets from all species.

Value Added Assortment Breaded & Battered

Our large range of breaded and battered fish products match taste preferences in different markets. You can choose between many different crumbs with different structures and characteristics. We constantly adapt the selection with new variants and species to meet consumer preferences.

We produce our products from many raw material species such as Cod, Haddock, Saithe, Alaska Pollock, Hake, Salmon, Yellowfin sole, Rock sole, Plaice, Vannamei shrimp.

Insight-based innovation

At Espersen, we work with our partners to innovate and grow. In order to be a strong category partner, we take care to follow consumer trends. We create and use insights about consumer behavior in both retail and foodservice, combined with taste preferences and lifestyle trends we develop new concepts and products in innovative packaging that matches requirements of our customers.

Chilled seafood assortment

Consumers show big interest in chilled seafood products as a way to get delicious and healthy everyday meals. We use our strong position in frozen seafood to expand our assortment within chilled products with focus on quality,

food safety and superior consumer experience. Our assortment in chilled include both natural and value added products, such as fish with marinates and fish with butters.

We can offer products based on:

Fillets

Loins and portions

Nuggets and strips

Portions cut from block – rectangle, trapeze, shaped portions

Formed portions

We can offer a wide variety of breading and tempura coatings.

Breadings:

Standard breading

Lightly dusted

Crispy breadings

Flavored breadings

Special breading:

Breading with seeds

Gluten free breading

We also have a number of tempura breadings available that offer a unique crunch and a delicious visual appearance to all products. We continuously work on implementing new interesting breadings. Just ask our sales responsible for more exciting proposals.

Tempura:

Standard tempura Flavored tempura

All of our breading and tempura systems allow for many preparation recommendations, like oven, fryer or air fryer.

Fish with sauce

We can deliver sauce solutions to fit with the quality tiering matching your requirement. Quality ranging from homemade-style sauces, prepared from the ground in our own kitchen, with ingredients you could find in your own kitchen – real vegetables, real cream, cheddar cheese and a fitting wine selection, to budget versions where the ingredients match the price requirement. The result is consumer favorites with great-tasting sauces that can be adjusted to fit the unique taste preferences in all markets.

We can offer you many flavor profiles:

Cream cheese & dill Honey-mustard sauce

Tomato & mozzarella sauce

Spinach sauce

Broccoli sauce

…And many more! Just ask your sales responsible for more proposals.

Specialities & Snacks

We have strong competencies in making deliciously tasting products with aromatic and flavorful sauces, crispy breadings or batters, or delicate and richs puff pastry doughs. Combining these competencies we are also able to create appetizing specialty products like salmon lasagna or fish with sauces, or explore the benefits of snack sized products in different categories to expand the market offering for relevant seasons or occasions.

Please reach out to your sales responsible for a talk about the possibilities.