Torqx Capital Partners recently sold its majority stake in Ocean Nutrition Europe and Marine Nutrition Thailand to Great Salt Lake Artemia (GSLA), an Artemia harvesting, processing, and ecology, with a strong focus on scientific innovation and environmental stewardship.
Ocean Nutrition, headquartered in Essen, Belgium, is a provider of premium nutrition solutions for the ornamental fish and aquaculture industries. With its own production facility in Thailand, the company serves a global customer base.
Erik Van den Brande and Ward Brijs, co-founders and co-shareholders of Ocean Nutrition, will continue to lead the company, ensuring continuity and a sustained focus on innovation and customer service.
“We’re excited to welcome Ocean Nutrition onto our team. They bring to the table top-notch people, an innovative line of products, a strong distributor network, and state-of-the-art manufacturing capabilities. This partnership will better position both companies to continue to deliver top-quality and highly sustainable live feeds, manufactured feeds, and related products to aquaculture and aquatic pet customers worldwide.” Timothy Hawkes, board chair, Great Salt Lake Artemia, told Aquafeed.com.
“We’re excited to join the Great Salt Lake Artemia team. We think our people and products complement their people and products extremely well, and we’re excited to see what opportunities this opens up for all of us," said Erik Van den Brande, managing director, Ocean Nutrition.
Torqx acquired a majority stake in Ocean Nutrition in 2022. “Torqx is proud to have supported Ocean Nutrition in its development over the past years. We extend our gratitude to the management team and employees for their dedication and wish them continued success under GSLA’s ownership,” they said in a press release.
