Six 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.
Seafood HACCP-certified
FDA and USDC-certified facility
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Quality certification
Catanese Classic SeafoodCatanese Classic Seafood is a family-owned Cleveland food supplier that began in 1982, when brothers Jim and John Catanese opened Waterfront Seafoods. After more than four decades serving Ohio kitchens, the company now operates its seafood, cheese, meat, and spice businesses from a 42,000-square-foot production and office facility. Seafood remains its founding specialty, alongside food processing and wholesale distribution for restaurants, retailers, and other food-service customers.CLEVELAND, OH
LP Seafood & SpecialtyFounded in 1974 by Rod and Joan MacGregor as a live-lobster supplier to New York City restaurants, family-owned LP Seafood & Specialty has grown into a major fishmonger and foodservice wholesaler in the New York metropolitan area. It supplies seafood and specialty foods to commercial kitchens and retail outlets, and operates an SQF-certified seafood processing facility. The business remains family-owned and is led by their son Ian, who has run it since 2002; its 2021 merger with Gourmet Cargo expanded its specialty-food and beverage line.NEW YORK, NY
Phillips Foods, IncFrom 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.BALTIMORE, MD
Land & SeaFounded in 1954 as Pittsburgh Seafoods, Land & Sea is a Monroeville-based wholesale supplier of meat and seafood, serving restaurants, retailers, and private clubs across the Pittsburgh region and surrounding states. Its whole-fish cutters prepare fish in-house, and the company has grown from a small seafood supplier into a regional distributor with more than 500 customers and over 3,000 frozen, packaged, and convenience products.MONROEVILLE, PA