In the year since Santa Monica Seafood completed its largest acquisition to date, picking up American Fish & Seafood, LA Fish Company and Chesapeake Fish, the Southern California-based supplier has been busy growing, CEO Roger O'Brien told IntraFish.

"That was a very large acquisition for us and we picked up some excellent employees along the way with some excellent accounts," O'Brien said.

"The tough part is that we picked up a number of new locations where most of the facilities were in pretty poor shape."

O'Brien