{"id":5008,"date":"2020-03-15T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icelandseafood.com\/?p=5008"},"modified":"2024-12-19T09:29:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T09:29:26","slug":"increased-uncertainty-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icelandseafood.com\/es\/increased-uncertainty-due-to-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased uncertainty due to COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5008\" class=\"elementor elementor-5008\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b840140 thegem-e-con-layout-thegem e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"b840140\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;thegem_container_layout&quot;:&quot;thegem&quot;}\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-53885ae flex-horizontal-align-default flex-horizontal-align-tablet-default flex-horizontal-align-mobile-default flex-vertical-align-default flex-vertical-align-tablet-default flex-vertical-align-mobile-default elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"53885ae\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-text-editor elementor-clearfix\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The outbreak of COVID-19 and recent actions in Europe and the United States to control the outbreak will impact sales and profitability of Iceland Seafood International (\u201cIceland Seafood\u201d) in the coming weeks and months.\u00a0 The financial implications are uncertain and will depend on the development and timeframe of restrictions that have been set.\u00a0 The most notable impacts at this stage are on sales to the HORECA and foodservice sectors, especially in Southern Europe, whilst retail sales are expected to remain strong. \u00a0<\/p><p>Iceland Seafood is financially strong and its operation are built on solid grounds, which enables the company to manage the situation. The Group\u2019s diversity in sourcing and sales &#8211; and strong position within the retail sector, especially in UK and Ireland, will help mitigating the financial impact of the outbreak.\u00a0 The profitability of Iceland Seafood was in line with expectations in the first two months of the year.\u00a0 At this stage it is uncertain how much sales and profits for the year will be impacted by the situation.\u00a0 The short term impact is going to be negative, but as of now it is difficult to predict the mid and long term development \u2013 whether this is a shift in demand between periods or it has a more severe longer term impact.\u00a0 Iceland seafood will communicate further on the matter as less ambiguity will be on the development of Covid-19 and it\u2019s implications for the company.\u00a0<\/p><p>Further information:<\/p><p><a href=\"mailto:bjarni.armannsson@icelandseafood.com\">bjarni.armannsson@icelandseafood.com<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outbreak of COVID-19 and recent actions in Europe and the United States to control the outbreak will impact sales&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-fullwidth.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"acf":[],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandseafood.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandseafood.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandseafood.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandseafood.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandseafood.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icelandseafood.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7270,"href":"https:\/\/icelandseafood.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5008\/revisions\/7270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandseafood.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icelandseafood.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandseafood.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icelandseafood.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}