What is the primary internet destination for the seafood industry?

While cruising around this here web, I happened to run across seafood.com. The front page looked a little templated, like it was part of a family comprised of pork.com, meat.com, and sweetbreads.com. (Like I should talk.)

Anyhoo, I clicked on the "About" link and boy was I surprised. It features a dry, detailed history of the site including their time during the dot-com boom:

...However, a shake out had started as the internet bubble collapsed, and we determined that a sale or merger of Seafood.com with another entity was desirable. In January, 2001. Seafood.com was purchased by iTradeNetwork, a company that provided transaction services to the produce industry. Between 2001 and 2002, iTradeNetwork acquired aqcuired Provision X, founded by major U.S. meat companies, and received a large investment from DTN. In 2004, iTradeNetwork partnered and received investment from EFS, the Electronic foodservice network funded by Sysco and McDonalds, among others. By2002, iTradeNetwork was the largest provider of integrated ecommerce between retailers in the U.S. and their meat and produce suppliers, and was rapidly adding foodservice distributors...

Miscellania · Sun, 04/10/2005 - 19:53 · · Importance: 1


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