The Premium Seafoods Group began as one company, Premium Seafoods Ltd, in 1984 when three French Acadian entrepreneurs - Edgar Samson, Brian Samson, and John F. Samson - formed a small lobster and fish brokering company. Although John Samson has since passed away, the two remaining partners have expanded the original company to a group of companies employing over 200 workers, buying and or processing in excess of 15 million pounds of seafood annually.
Although the group of companies have expanded, Edgar Samson and Brian Samson still hold true to small community values and their French Acadian roots. Their belief in hard work, honesty and commitment to the customer is just as strong as their pride and support of their Acadian heritage and small community.
OUR COMPANIES
Premium Seafoods - Buyer/Broker of Fresh & Frozen Seafood
Green Island Partnership - Distributor and Groundfish Processor
Petit de Grat Packers - Snow Crab Processor
Merry’s Seafoods - Broker of Fresh Seafood
Premium Choice Shrimp Ltd.
Our Brands:
Premium Seafoods Group facilities process and package our own brands for the food service industry. The products that go into our brands are controlled by us from the moment we procure it from the harvester to the point it leaves our processing facility.
In addition to our labels, we can and do process products under private labels. We specialize in processing Atlantic Snow Crab and Groundfish.
JF SAMSON : JF Samson brand seafood products are processed and packed at PSG Canadian Facilities.
GREEN ISLAND: Green Island brand seafood products are processed and packed by our strategic partner in China. We work closely with our partner's production team to insure that our custom processing programs are followed to our specifications. This is one more way of providing you with the best value for your dollar. Our overseas processing partner follows stringent HACCP based Quality Control protocols and is CFIA, USFDA and EU approved, as well as being MSC and BRC certified.
GRAMPA HARVEY: Grampa Harvey brand Atlantic Snow Crab is processed and packed at PSG’s Canadian facility using high quality Atlantic Snow Crab caught by local harvesters from eastern Nova Scotia, Canada.