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Puertomar

Puertomar is a Manta-area sardine and seafood canner near Jaramijó that self-describes as Ecuador's #1 sardine exporter, selling Oval, Tall, and smoked Tinapa formats in vegetable oil, water, or tomato sauce.

At a glance

Notable facts

• Self-describes as the "#1 sardine exporter of Ecuador," exporting to 30 countries.
• States certification to BPM, HACCP, FDA, SENASA, and EU standards.
• States "more than 48 years" in the Ecuadorian market (implying a founding in the late 1970s) alongside a separate, inconsistent "25 years" reference — flagged rather than resolved.
• Company founder named as Arnoldo Xavier Godoy Andrade on the company's own site.

Origin

Puertomar cans sardines near Jaramijó on Ecuador's Manabí coast, as part of Grupo Empresarial Puertomar, a company that also owns brands including Don Sancho and Dos Mares. Its own site describes founder Arnoldo Xavier Godoy Andrade and claims "more than 48 years" in the Ecuadorian market — putting an implied founding somewhere in the late 1970s, though the company doesn't state an exact year, and a separate "25 years" reference elsewhere on the same site doesn't square cleanly with that figure.

The brand sells three can formats — Oval, Tall, and smoked Tinapa — across vegetable oil, water, and tomato sauce recipes, and markets itself hard on export scale: BPM, HACCP, FDA, SENASA, and EU certifications, and self-description as Ecuador's #1 sardine exporter to 30 countries. As with the other independent Ecuadorian canners in this directory, everything here traces to a single source (the company's own site), so it stays flagged unverified pending a second, independent corroborating source.

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