Business View Magazine | August 2019

34 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE AUGUST 2019 trucking division has a fleet of trucks that pick up lobsters at the wharf, take them to the holding facility, and from there to the processing plant about five miles away. The fleet also hauls live lobster and finished product for Shediac Lobster Shop to customers in Boston. Shediac Lobster Shop Ltd. Vice President, Daniel Belliveau, has been with the company since 2010. He shares, “The company is a family business that started as a combination ice cream stand and lobster stand way back in 1952. We don’t do distribution, we process and sell lobster products – the U.S. is our main market, we also sell to Europe, Japan, China, and a small amount in Canada. We’re mostly an exporter. We have one processing facility, one live holding facility, and a packaging and machine fabricating facility, where we make equipment– stainless steel tables and racks, etc., specifically for our own lobster plant.” With a workforce varying between 200 and 250 people, Shediac Lobster Shop is a large and valuable employer in the community of Shediac. The company works with different lobster