Phillips Foods, Inc. and Seafood Restaurants is a family owned and operated

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company in the mid-Atlantic region, United States. Phillips Foods, Inc., seafood manufacturers as well as restaurateurs, specializes in crab meat and

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s, and produces a line of fish and shrimp products. The company is headquartered in

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. Phillips Seafood Restaurants have casual dining, buffet service and carryout.

History

In 1914, Augustus E. Phillips established the company's first seafood processing plant on Hooper's Island in Maryland’s

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. The A.E. Phillips packing plant processed seafood from many of the watermen in the region. In 1956, after a surplus season of crabs, son Brice Phillips and wife Shirley opened the first “crab shack” in

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. Brice and Shirley began building a new dining room each year at Phillips Crab House until it finally seated 1400 people. In 2002, the company was sued for violating the

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, a statute that provides consumer protection against false advertising. The plaintiff's claimed that Phillips was deceiving its customers after it said that it was following the original recipe while it used Asian crab meat instead of Maryland blue crab. Phillips Seafood Restaurants currently has 5 company-owned restaurants along the eastern coast of the United States, as well as a network of franchise locations in airports, travel plazas, casinos and sporting arenas.

Crab manufacturing

Phillips is a leading global manufacturer of crab meat, and employs over 2,000 people worldwide. The company's crab processing facilities are found in the United States and

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. Ten plants are located worldwide. In 1990, Phillips opened crab processing facilities in Southeast Asia to ensure a year-round supply of swimming crab meat for their restaurants. Phillips Foods has global sales offices in Baltimore, MD and Bangkok, Thailand. While most of the seafood production goes to the United States, the company has a growing market in Asia, Europe, and Australia "Phillips Foods outlines plans for new acility in Thailand," Seafax, Retrieved: January 15, 2008

Products

Known primarily for their

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, the company has an array of other products available to the retail and

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markets, such as

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, appetizers, fish,

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s, soups, entrées, spices and sauces. Although the company's reputation was built on its origins as a producer of Maryland blue crab, it now markets primarily crab from Southeast Asia.

References

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History

Crab manufacturing

Products

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