THE GROUPE BARBA,
 SINCE 1930

Henri Barba's great-grandmother started selling fish at the Halles de Béziers and in the villages of the greater Béziers area. Her products were local, purchased directly from the Port of Valras, a few kilometers from Béziers.

1993: the company flourishes, and it is time to push the walls! Barba is launching the construction of new workshops near Frontignan, a few kilometers from the port of Sète. The same year, Barba made its first sale of Mediterranean bluefin tuna to Japan.

Links with Asia were strengthened in 1995 with the intervention of a Korean specialist who came to introduce the teams to cutting tuna fillets, a technique still little known in France. Barba then becomes a pioneer in cutting tuna loins in France.

In 1996, Danielle and Henri Barba took over the management of the company.

Hervé and Benoit Barba, sons of Danielle and Henri Barba, joined the family adventure in 2000. They chose to change direction by developing the supermarket and specialized wholesale markets. Two years later, they made the first importation of fresh tuna from the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
Continues on the path of innovation by becoming the leading French seller of quality sashimi products at -60°C.
In 2007, Barba Marée became the French leader in the marketing of -60°C sashimi quality products, before becoming the French leader in packaging tuna steak in trays the following year.
In 2009, Barba Marée launched into the production of cephalopods.
In 2011, Barba Marée officially became the Groupe Barba.

Still managed by the fourth and fifth generation of the Barba family, the Group continues to develop by relying on strong values such as work ethics, love of good products and respect for customers.

The family unit is a real asset at Groupe Barba, making it possible to provide emblematic know-how to all customers, but also by offering a healthy and pleasant working environment to all employees, who today make all the success of the company.