From its Chesapeake Bay beginnings, Phillips Foods makes crab meat, crab cakes and other prepared seafood for grocery shelves, restaurants and foodservice kitchens. The family-owned company traces its roots to 1914 and has crafted seafood products for four generations, carrying the Maryland Eastern Shore tradition behind its first restaurant’s 1956 crab-cake recipe into a global sourcing operation. Based in Baltimore, Phillips also operates seafood restaurants along the East Coast and in airports.
Handy Seafood IncorporatedSince John T. Handy founded it in Crisfield in 1894, Handy Seafood has built its identity around Chesapeake seafood and a hands-on approach to crab cakes. The company’s long history includes pioneering soft-shell crab processing and producing more than 200 million crab cakes in small batches by hand for retail and foodservice customers.SALISBURY, MD
Byrd InternationalEstablished in 1995 on Maryland’s lower Eastern Shore, Byrd International produces pasteurized blue swimming crab meat for customers around the world. The Salisbury company carries the region’s crab-processing tradition forward with hand-picked meat packed in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand, without chemical whitening. Its crab products are made under HACCP-compliant, FDA-registered facilities.SALISBURY, MD
Trout’s Supreme SeafoodFounded by Steve Trout in 1991, Trout’s Supreme Seafood is a Maryland company with more than 30 years of regional experience and a facility expanded in 2004 to support its growth. Based in New Market, it is known for serving the area’s food businesses with fresh seafood, including Maryland blue crab, across Maryland and into nearby states.NEW MARKET, MD
Samuels Seafood CompanySix generations of family seafood experience stand behind Samuels Seafood Company, a Philadelphia business that grew from the Ippolito family market into a national wholesale distributor. Founded as Samuels Seafood in 1989, the company remains family-run under owner Sam D’Angelo and continues its South Philadelphia roots from a 60,000-square-foot facility. Its operations include a USDC-certified facility and a live lobster room, reflecting a business built on long experience with the seafood trade.PHILADELPHIA, PA