This week’s news that Costco has restructured the supply contract for its Kirkland Signature branded Atlantic cold smoked salmon product line ends a 14-year run for Foppen as the sole supplier of the product.

As the chart below shows, after Foppen wrangled the Costco contract from Lafjord in 2005, smoked salmon exports from the Netherlands and Greece -- where Foppen is the primary smoked salmon processor -- took off.

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