The Scottish Salmon Company PLC Announce New Chief Executive Officer

The Scottish Salmon Company are pleased to announce that Dr Stewart McLelland will be taking over as CEO of the company in January 2012, succeeding current Chief Executive Bill Hazeldean.

Mr Hazeldean is leaving to concentrate on his interests with Associated Seafoods Ltd. The company are extremely thankful to Bill for his leadership over the past 12 months.

This promotion for Stewart, from the role of Chief Operating Officer, will provide the Company with continuity to develop the plans for strategic growth and fulfil our long term strategy to increase and balance out our total production volume to around 40,000 tonnes per annum by 2015/2016.

The Company aims to achieve this through a mixture of organic growth in current farming facilities, and the new development of virgin sites. In addition to farming capacity increases, the Company will need to make significant investments through its value chain infrastructure, including freshwater and processing.

Further Information: www.scottishsalmon.com
Robert Wilson (robert.wilson@scottishsalmon.com)

The Scottish Salmon Company

The Scottish Salmon Company is the leading independent producer of Scottish salmon, providing superior salmon to both the local and international markets. The Scottish based and operated company is a fully-integrated seafood company, built around the provenance, taste, freshness, sustainability and health benefits of its salmon.

The Company is engaged in all stages of the value chain from smolt production to harvesting, processing and sales. Operating from over 40 sites on the Hebrides and West Coast of Scotland, the company currently employs over 350 staff. The Scottish Salmon Company currently produces about 24,000 tonnes of Scottish salmon annually, accounting for about 20% of Scottish production.