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Raptis Seafood, one of Australia’s largest privately owned fishing companies which serves up more than 5,000 tonnes of seafood annually, is trawling the market for a backer.

Street Talk understands the family-owned company has tapped Kidder Williams to find it a strategic investor. This represents the first time in Raptis’ 60-year history that it’s sought external investment.

In a one-page teaser, seen by Street Talk, the advisory firm pitched Queensland-headquartered Raptis’ strong distribution network which exports to markets like New Zealand, the US, Japan, Hong Kong and China.

Raptis’ main products are tropical fish – prawns, mullet, squid, snapper – and it has a decent retail footprint under the brands Ocean Pearl, Seaport and Agrios, which supply to the major supermarkets and wholesalers like PFD Food Service and Bidfood.

Read the full story tomorrow and more on the Street Talk page.

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