This would be the second time in only two years that the company would change hands. The sale “could be announced in the next two weeks,” states Reuters. merican Seafoods is currently held in majority by Centre Partners, a lead investor in a management buyout which bought American Seafoods from Norway's Aker RGI ASA in January 2000.

The Company's CEO, Bernt O. Bodal, had already indicated in August that "the company [was] evaluating various refinancing alternatives" which at the time would have included a "leveraged recapitalisation and management buy-out".

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