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Delicious Seafood with passion

Welcome to Espersen

Your partner in delicious, tasty and high-quality seafood.

We take you closer to the sea

More than 85 years of experience in quality seafood has earned us the position as a world leading white fish processor. Every day, our 3,000 seafood specialists and passionate craftsmen are committed to creating great consumer experiences with delicious seafood products in natural fish, breaded fish and puff pastry.

We take responsibility from sea to serving, always ensuring that good business and sustainable practices go hand in hand.

More than 85 years of continuous development

Espersen has a strong heritage in seafood, rooted in strong values and high business integrity. It all started in 1937, when J.P.A. Espersen built his first fish processing factory on the Danish island of Bornholm. His vision was to transform the ample stocks of cod in the Baltic Sea into delicious seafood products.

The seafood heritage and entrepreneurial spirit continues to mark our culture even today. From basic filleting and natural fish products made in Denmark, the business is now expanded across continents and product categories. Every day, we take pride in constantly developing the product assortment to meet consumer demand and match the great ambition of our strong partners.

Winning with our customers

We want to be your category partner based on a compelling value proposition that is hard to match. We bring value via:

• A sustainable approach to protect sea, fish, people and planet

• A wide assortment in frozen and chilled seafood products

• Innovative concepts and added value, based on insights in your consumers, markets and categories.

• Expert knowledge from sea to serving

• Always being a trustworthy and reliable partner

Cod, haddock, pollock and saithe are the white fish species we predominately rely on for our frozen and chilled seafood.

Our Seas, Our Fish, Our Food

Make a stand and help secure healthy seafood for future generations

Net Positive Fishing

Resource Use

Worker Health & Welfare

Supply Chain Integrity

Our Seas, Our Fish, Our Food Espersen’s commitment to sustainability has been a proactive choice since our founding in 1937. We believe that to ensure a sustainable future, we must do everything possible to encourage sustainable practices. And as a foundation-owned company, we are uniquely enabled to focus on positive, long-term outcomes for our business and the wider community – documenting our efforts in annual reports since 2011.

Implementing sustainable practices demands a collective effort. The words ”Our Sea, Our Fish, Our Food” encourage all Espersen employees, suppliers and customers to take personal ownership of the contribution we make together to protect the ocean, ensure the abundancy of raw materials, and provide high-quality, nutritious and delicious food for consumers.

Environmental Footprint

As a responsible company, we are committed to reducing our emissions in accordance with current climate science. This commitment reflects our dedication to addressing climate change while promoting sustainable food systems.

Over the past years, we have continued to focus on energy efficiency in production and identification of production improvement opportunities. Several green investments were either implemented or approved at our sites as part of our carbon reduction journey. In particular, our move to renewable energy sources for our production plant and sales office in Denmark. In Koszalin, Poland, we have invested in further on-site solar photovoltaic energy installations. In Hasle, Bornholm, Denmark, we have

reduced our packaging waste through circular initiatives.

Espersen has set near-term targets that have been approved by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). We have already achieved our Scope 1+2 target and are on track to achieve our Scope 3 target by 2030. Looking ahead, our main objectives are to implement further reduction initiatives and engage with our stakeholders regarding supplier-specific data.

Our focus areas

We have defined four focus areas that guide our sustainability work and ensure that we apply our resources in the areas that matter most:

Responsible fishing: We promote responsible fishing, ensuring current and future availability of healthy food from the sea. 99% of our fish and seafood is sourced in accordance with third-party certification schemes such as MSC, ASC or Global G.A.P.

Resource use: We minimize our use and waste of valuable resources, e.g., water and energy and we strive to use every part of the fish.

Worker health & welfare: We ensure good worker welfare in a safe and healthy working environment. 100% of our own operations are third-party certified by SMETA.

Supply chain integrity: We offer supply chain integrity with full control and traceability from sea to serving.

Delicious seafood for every occasion

Insight-based innovation

At Espersen we believe that in order to successfully grow our business we must work with our partners to grow their business. For the long term concept and product development we monitor and evaluate consumer trends in both retail and foodservice. This keeps us up to date on developments within taste preferences and lifestyle trends that we can tap into to develop successful products/concepts to drive growth for our partners.

Product categories

We have strong production capabilities and have built a strong position in all the major segments in the frozen seafood category. At our modern factory we hand craft the sauces that are used across the segments in some of our delicious products.

New assortment in chilled seafood

Consumers increasingly ask for chilled seafood products as delicious and healthy everyday meals. We use our strong position in frozen seafood to expand our assortment within chilled products with focus on quality and food safety. Our assortment in chilled include both natural and breaded fish fillets and puff pastry products and it is constantly developed with new species and recipes.

Natural fish

Espersen is your guarantee for high quality, natural fish. We fillet our own fish and have done so since 1937. This enables us to offer high flexibility, full control over the production and complete traceability. Our assortment covers most needs from loins to center cut and tail fillets to blocks and portions – everything delivered with consistent and high quality.

Breaded & battered fish – and special breading

Breaded

& battered fish

Our extensive range of breaded and battered fish products matches taste preferences in different markets. We offer many different crumbs with different structures and characteristics, and we constantly develop the selection with new variants and spices to meet consumer taste preferences. We have recently developed a new and improved batter which is extra light and crisp.

Special breading

At Espersen, you can find a wide range of special breadings developed to match different market needs and consumer trends. Among others, we offer a range of fish products with light dusting, which gives a great eating experience with more fish and less breading. Products with super seeds like sunflower, linseed and pumpkin seeds are also available.

Hand crafted sauces

Our sauces are hand made and prepared from the ground with ingredients you find in your own kitchen. Real butter, real cream, real vegetables, cheddar cheese, and of course - a fitting wine selection. The result is great tasting sauces that can be adjusted to fit the unique taste preferences in all markets. Our sauces can be used across the different segments to create consumer favorites.

Puff pastry

Espersen is a puff pastry specialist. We produce gourmet quality puff pastry, and we sell our products worldwide. The dough is freshly made in our factory with 48 layers to create crispy and delicious puff pastry products. We produce with many types of fish and seafood which can be combined with our hand crafted sauces to create wellknown consumer favorites or new and inspiring products to expand the category. We offer a full range of sizes –from family size 750g to snacks 30g to serve every occasion.

Denmark: Copenhagen (Management and administration)

Roenne

(QSR sales, customer service)

Hasle

(Office consumer division, consumer production) Phone: +45 5696 5311

UK: Grimsby (UK sales office)

Phone: +44 1472 403360

Vietnam: Chi Minh City Due Hoa District (Primary Production) Phone: +84 723769150

France: Boulogne-sur-Mer (Sales office)

Phone: +33 321 31 71 76

Germany: Bremen (Sales office)

Poland:

(Primary and consumer production, office, laboratory)

Phone: +45 5696 5311