“a sea-change
into something rich and strange.”*
We have had something of a sea change at Loch Fyne Oysters this week as we have entered into a partnership/merger with an investment company (SSI) which already has a strong foothold in the seafood world and which will bring to LFO capital and support to help us move forward through the next decades.
Full information is in the press release which has been published widely over the last few days.
On the ground there is a feeling of increased security and the opportunity to move ideas and ambitions forward which have been difficult to achieve recently.
The company has gone through several ‘sea-changes’ in its history and has always embraced them with enthusiasm and pragmatism. This latest merging will be particularly important with regards to growing our export markets. Having recently visited Europe, it seems that often we forget what lies beyond our borders and how big a world there is out there.
This week I had a meeting with a group of marketing students at Strathclyde University who are working on a project for Food from Argyll. They were 5 highly intelligent and lively individuals from France, Greece, Brazil, India and China. All spoke fluent English and demonstrated a wide knowledge in all sorts of areas. To have such an international group working on a project about regional food from Argyll parallels the recent LFO/SSI merger in bringing a large international company, based in Scotland, together with a specialist regional producer. Better together than apart!
Initially it might seem strange but if past history is anything to go on LFO will quickly adapt and embrace the change while remaining true to its core values, community and locality. Here’s to the future.
* From Shakespeare’s The Tempest
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