Jan 29th, 2025
3 mins
It’s never too early to start planning for Christmas 2025, and as part of those plans, Pacific West has been reviewing the retailer ranges of Christmas delights, ready to inspire your festive feast planning.
The retailers had a pretty successful festive 2024 trading period, with M&S identified as the best performer, with sales +8.7% in the 13 weeks up to 28.12.24.
M&S is known for its premium quality and innovative products, which showcased a range of value added shellfish and “picky bits”. Here are some of our highlights from the M&S 2024 range, which included:
- Layered seafood towers served as starters
- Lots of Prawns – including a King Prawn medley with paprika sauce & harissa butter
- Mini Wholetail Breaded Scampi & Chips in little cones
Reviewing the other retailers, there was a lot of Smoked Salmon, upgraded Prawn cocktails and seafood platters.
Here are some of our favourites:
- Aldi – King Prawn Selection, with Prawn lollipops, Penang
style butterfly Prawns and Filo Green Thai Prawns - Tesco – King Prawn Selection, with spicy firecracker,
lemon & herb and tempura coatings - Waitrose – Shimmering Salmon mousse
- There were also festive Bao Buns with various fillings and
fun looking bites across different categories and ranges
Download the full Festive Seafood Recommendations from Pacific Westfor 2025 – here
