Global Trading Enterprise

What Global Trading Enterprise does

Global Trading LLC is a privately held international trading company founded in 1993 and headquartered in Pensacola, Florida, operating through a 13-person team. The company runs four product lines: (1) seafood imports (cod, haddock, Arctic char, salmon, steelhead, plaice, and shrimp sourced from Norway, Iceland, Chile, Holland, and India); (2) retail product exports via its wholly-owned subsidiary Thule LLC, spanning spices, cake mixes, peanut butter, beverages, vegan products, produce, aluminum, protein powder, and health and beauty products, including private label design and manufacturing; (3) fresh produce exports (berries, avocados, garlic, tomatoes, lettuce shipped by air freight from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas/Fort Worth, New York, and Boston, plus container loads of apples, citrus, and sweet potatoes from the East Coast); and (4) marine electronics, anchored by the Netsounder sub-brand whose flagship 11.4mm U.S.-made steel armor coaxial cable is rated to 16,000 foot-pounds/71.2 kN and sold through netsoundercable.com to fishing companies worldwide.

The business model is sales-led B2B trading with direct outreach through named contacts (Snorri and Stefan) and a global partner network. Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, and the company accommodates spot opportunities, regular shipments, and annual contracts. Multi-temperature shipping capabilities (dry, refrigerated, and frozen containers) support the perishable and grocery lines, while marine electronics represent a separate, more productized revenue stream. The firm shows no external institutional investment, no parent company, and no disclosed certifications, patents, or trademarks, and operates entirely as an independent LLC.

Customer segments span seafood importers, retail importers, fresh produce traders, and commercial fishing companies, with sourcing geographies covering North America, Europe, South America, and Asia. The company is privately held, has been continuously operating for over 30 years, and has no public listing, no disclosed funding rounds, and no management team details in the source material, leaving ownership, leadership, and financial scale largely opaque.

Name

Global Trading Enterprise

Legal name

Global Trading, LLC.

Website

https://globaltradingllc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Global Trading LLC is a privately held international trading company founded in 1993 that imports seafood, exports retail grocery and produce items, and sells Netsounder marine cables to B2B customers worldwide through a 13-person team and its subsidiary Thule LLC.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

International Food and Marine Electronics Trading

NAICS

Fish and Seafood Merchant Wholesalers (42446)

SIC

Wholesale-Groceries & Related Products (5140), Wholesale-Farm Product Raw Materials (5150)

akta.pro primary industry

Import/Export & Cross-Border Food Commodity Trading (AFAIAKAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Seafood Wholesale (Fresh & Frozen) (AFAIADAD), Shellfish Wholesale (Crustaceans & Mollusks) (AFAIADAF)

Keywords

• Seafood imports
• Retail food exports
• Fresh produce exports
• Marine electronics
• Private label manufacturing

Headquarters

HQ city

Pensacola

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Seafood Imports: Imports quality seafood products from global sources including cod and haddock from Norway and Iceland, Arctic char from Iceland, salmon and steelhead from Norway and Chile, plaice from Holland, and shrimp from India.
2. Retail Food Exports: Through subsidiary Thule LLC, exports grocery products including spices, cake mixes, peanut butter, beverages, vegan products, produce, aluminum, protein powder, and health and beauty products. Offers private label goods design and manufacturing. Ships in dry, refrigerated, and frozen containers.
3. Fresh Produce Exports: Exports fresh perishables (berries, avocados, garlic, tomatoes, lettuce) via air freight from major U.S. hubs. Exports container loads of apples, citrus, and sweet potatoes from East Coast.
4. Marine Electronics Sales: Sells marine electronics including Netsounder cables to fishing companies worldwide. Products available through dedicated website netsoundercable.com.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Global Trading LLC is an international trading company that imports and exports food products and marine electronics. The company imports quality seafood (cod, haddock, Arctic char, salmon, steelhead, plaice, and shrimp) from Norway, Iceland, Chile, Holland, and India, and exports retail grocery products, fresh produce, and U.S.-made Netsounder steel armor coaxial cables for fishing industry clients. Through subsidiary Thule LLC, it also designs and manufactures private label goods.

Product overview

Global Trading LLC is an importer and exporter of quality food products and marine electronics, operating as a unified portfolio of trading services rather than a single product platform. The company operates four core product lines: Seafood Imports (supplying cod, haddock, Arctic char, salmon, steelhead, plaice, and shrimp from Norway, Iceland, Chile, Holland, and India), Retail Products Export through subsidiary Thule LLC (spanning spices, beverages, vegan products, health and beauty items, and private label goods in dry/refrigerated/frozen containers), Produce Export (fresh perishables and bulk produce via air freight and ocean containers), and Marine Electronics including the Netsounder Cable product line (specialized steel armor coaxial cables for the fishing industry).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Netsounder Cable: Marine electronics cable brand - 11.4mm U.S. made steel armor coaxial cable for fishing companies ensuring reliable data transmission

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Thule LLCcoreOthersSubsidiary company through which Global Trading exports retail products including spices, cake mixes, peanut butter, beverages, vegan products, produce, aluminum, protein powder, and health and beauty products. Thule LLC assists in the design and manufacture of private label goods.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Others

• Furuno Electric: Manufacturer of marine electronics including sonar, navigation, and communication equipment sold to commercial fishing fleets worldwide. Comparable to Global Trading's Netsounder marine electronics business on the customer side (commercial fishing), though Furuno is a much larger incumbent supplier.
• Navico (Simrad): Marine electronics brand group (Simrad, Lowrance, B&G) supplying sonar and data-transmission systems to commercial and recreational marine markets. Comparable on the customer and product-category side of Global Trading's Netsounder cable line.

Broad incumbents

• Louis Dreyfus Company: Global merchant trading in agricultural commodities including seafood-adjacent proteins and produce with cross-border logistics. Comparable as a broad-based international food commodity trader with global sourcing.
• Cargill: Global agricultural commodity trader and food ingredient supplier with extensive international sourcing and trading operations. Comparable at the cross-border food commodity trading layer of Global Trading's business.
• Maruha Nichiro: Japanese global seafood conglomerate engaged in fishing, processing, and trading of salmon, cod, shellfish, and value-added seafood across multiple regions. Comparable at the international seafood sourcing and value-added processing layer.
• Sysco: Largest U.S. foodservice distributor carrying broad grocery, produce, and seafood lines. Represents the broad incumbent benchmark for multi-temperature food distribution to B2B buyers and competes with Global Trading for foodservice accounts.
• Trident Seafoods: U.S. vertically integrated seafood company that harvests, processes, and distributes seafood globally, including whitefish and shellfish imports/exports. Comparably positioned to Global Trading's seafood import line, though at materially larger scale and with owned-vessel operations.
• U.S. Foods: Major U.S. foodservice distributor with full-line grocery, meat, seafood, and produce offerings to restaurants and institutional buyers. Comparable as a broad-line B2B food distributor with multi-temperature capability.

Direct peers

• High Liner Foods: North American processor and marketer of value-added frozen seafood, with significant private-label business and global sourcing (including Nordic species). Directly comparable in seafood value-added processing and private-label orientation.
• Pacific Seafood Group: Family-owned U.S. seafood harvesting, processing, and distribution company with vertically integrated operations and global sourcing. Closely comparable in ownership style, seafood focus, and B2B distribution model to Global Trading.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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