TUMAY BALIKÇILIK GIDA DIŞ TİC. SAN. A.Ş.

What TUMAY BALIKÇILIK GIDA DIŞ TİC. SAN. A.Ş. does

TUMAY BALIKÇILIK GIDA DIŞ TİC. SAN. A.Ş. (operating as Tumay Group or Tumay Seafood) is a privately held Turkish aquaculture and seafood processing company headquartered in Urla, İzmir. Founded in 1993, the company farms and processes three Mediterranean species — sea bream (Sparus aurata), sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), and meagre (Argyrosomus regius) — and offers each in six formats: fresh and frozen whole, gutted, and fillet. Stated production capacity is 5,800 tons/year, with daily processing of 6 tons through a packing plant completed in Q1 2014 at Uzunkuyu/Urla that the company describes as the biggest fresh seafoods packing plant in Europe. Farms sit 13km from the plant, enabling a 30-minute harvest-to-packing transit; frozen products use super-freezing technology with a stated maximum 10-minute freeze time. The company holds GLOBAL GAP, IFS, BRC, and ASC certifications, with an NSF-led ASC farm audit scheduled for June 2026, and provides 100% traceability from juvenile to packed product with reported 99.38% counting accuracy.

The business model is B2B sales-led export: the company sells directly to international seafood distributors, wholesalers, and retail chains via global shipping, packaging fresh product (14-day shelf life at 0–4°C) or frozen product (18-month shelf life at -18°C) in styropor boxes of 6, 10, 15, or 20kg net fish weight with ice. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and the company maintains no public listing. Distribution is supported by a corporate website and presence on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. Group-level affiliation exists with Kdm Tarım ve Hayvansal Ürünler Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. on the İzmir Çipura Sea Bream Marine Fish Farming Project.

Revenue is not disclosed in available sources. No venture or private equity funding rounds are reported; the company appears independently operated with no public shareholders. End customers are not named in the data, and no revenue split by segment, geography, or product mix is available, limiting the ability to triangulate actual commercial scale from the stated production capacity.

Name

TUMAY BALIKÇILIK GIDA DIŞ TİC. SAN. A.Ş.

Legal name

TUMAY BALIKÇILIK GIDA DIŞ TİC. SAN. A.Ş.

Website

https://tumaygroup.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1993

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

TUMAY BALIKÇILIK (Tumay Group) is a privately held Turkish aquaculture and seafood processor founded in 1993 in İzmir, farming and processing Mediterranean sea bream, sea bass, and meagre in fresh and frozen formats for export to international distributors, wholesalers, and retail chains.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Aquaculture Seafood Processing

NAICS

Seafood Product Preparation and Packaging (3117), Aquaculture (1125), Fish and Seafood Merchant Wholesalers (42446)

SIC

Prepared Fresh Or Frozen Fish & Seafoods (2092)

akta.pro primary industry

Aquaculture Processing & On-Farm Value-Add (primary handling, icing, packing) (AFAEAAAN)

Keywords

• Mediterranean aquaculture
• Sea bream farming
• Sea bass processing
• Frozen seafood production
• Fish processing

Headquarters

HQ city

Urla/İzmir

HQ country

Türkiye

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Seafood Product Sales: Primary revenue from selling fresh and frozen Mediterranean fish products (Sea Bream, Sea Bass, Meagre) in various forms. Products sold include Fresh Whole, Fresh Gutted, Fresh Fillet, Frozen Whole, Frozen Gutted, and Frozen Fillet variants. Revenue generated through B2B direct sales to international customers and distributors.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Tumay Group farms and processes Mediterranean fish species — Sea Bream (Sparus Aurata), Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus Labrax), and Meagre (Argyrosomus Regius) — through vertically integrated aquaculture operations and Europe's largest fresh seafood packing plant (5,800 tons/year capacity). Products are offered in fresh and frozen variants across whole, gutted, and fillet forms, packaged in styropor boxes of 6–20 kg, and sold B2B to international distributors, wholesalers, and retail chains.

Product overview

Tumay Group operates as a Mediterranean aquaculture and seafood processing company offering a diversified portfolio of fresh and frozen fish products. The product portfolio comprises three main fish species: Sea Bream (Sparus Aurata), Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus Labrax), and Meagre (Argyrosomus Regius). Each species is offered in six product forms: Fresh Whole, Fresh Gutted, Fresh Fillet, Frozen Whole, Frozen Gutted, and Frozen Fillet. The company operates the largest fresh seafoods packing plant in Europe, enabling same-day processing of harvests from farms located just 13km away, with super-freezing technology that freezes products in under 10 minutes. Products are graded by size according to customer specifications and packed in varying weights (6kg, 10kg, 15kg, or 20kg net fish in styrofoam boxes with ice).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fresh Whole Sea Bream (Sparus Aurata)

Quantifiable outcome

• Processing 6 tons of fish per day with capacity for various product forms
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• NSF (ASC Certification)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 8 June 2026NSF (formerly known as NSF International) is conducting ASC Farm audit for Tumay Group's İzmir Çipura Deniz Balıkları Yetiştiriciliği Projesi (İzmir Sea Bream Sea Fish Farming Project) between 08/06/2026 and 09/06/2026. Contact: Aoife Rice ([email protected]). ASC audit reports are publicly available on ASC website.
• Kdm Tarım ve Hayvansal Ürünler Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.coreOthersGroup company partner in the İzmir Çipura Deniz Balıkları Yetiştiriciliği Projesi. Quality Manager contact: Elvan Koşar ([email protected]).

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Andromeda Group: Greek aquaculture group with seabass, seabream, and meagre production plus processing plants — overlaps directly with Tumay on species mix and Mediterranean export focus.
• Selonda: Greek aquaculture producer of sea bass and sea bream — the closest direct competitor to Tumay, operating cage farming and primary processing for European B2B distribution.
• Stolt Sea Farm: Stolt-Nielsen subsidiary producing turbot, sole, and other premium Mediterranean species with significant processing infrastructure — comparable on aquaculture-to-packaging vertical integration.
• Galaxidi Marine Farm: Greek seabass and seabream producer with on-site processing — directly comparable in species scope, Mediterranean geography, and B2B foodservice channel.
• Avramar (formerly Nireus/Selonda prior mergers): One of the largest Mediterranean seabass and seabream producers, vertically integrating hatchery, farming, and processing — directly comparable in product mix and export-led GTM.
• Philosofish: Greek aquaculture producer focused on sea bass and sea bream — comparable in scale, species, and Mediterranean cage-farming-to-processing model.

Broad incumbents

• Cermaq: Global salmon farmer owned by Mitsubishi — comparable in aquaculture scale, processing technology, and ASC-certification-driven buyer relationships, though salmon-focused.
• Nueva Pescanova: Large, diversified seafood company with aquaculture and processed seafood operations globally — broader portfolio but overlapping Mediterranean fish processing activity.
• Mowi: World's largest Atlantic salmon farmer with growing Mediterranean exposure — broadly comparable as a large-scale aquaculture-to-processing exporter, though species-different.
• Thai Union Group: Global seafood conglomerate with farmed and processed seafood (including sea bass/sea bream) supply — comparable as a B2B seafood exporter with similar certification and traceability expectations.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookm.facebook.com/T%C3%BCmay-Group-103225468119373
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tumay-balik%C3%A7ilik-gida-di%C5%9F-tic-san-a-%C5%9F-
• Instagraminstagram.com/tumaygroup

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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