date:Feb 21, 2014
challenges. Excluding American Pride, sales in the fourth quarter from our U.S. food service business and our U.S. and Canadian retail value-added private label businesses declined on a year-over-year basis. This was consistent with what we experienced in the first three quarters of the year, reflecting continued soft sales in the U.S. restaurant industry in 2013 and the trend in the seafood marketplace overall of decreased demand for retail value-added private label seafood products. We were su