History

Niels Vinther Rasmussen and Joergen Urne founded Kangamiut Seafood A/S in 1975. The purpose of the company was trading with frozen fish and shellfish from Greenland and other North Atlantic waters.

Cooked shell-on prawns are one of the company’s primary products.
Small land-based factories in Greenland and the Faeroe Islands were among Kangamiut Seafood A/S first suppliers. However, shell-on prawns only really became the company trademark when the Greenlandic trawler fleet expanded at the end of the 1970s.

Cod and haddock from Murmansk became key products for Kangamiut Seafood A/S at the beginning of the 1990s when the business area was extended to also include Russian products.

King Crab from the Barents Sea has been included in the company’s area of business, and Kangamiut Seafood A/S is one of the primary players on the global market today.