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20 Clients for 20 Years
NOVA Fisheries, Inc.
We recently announced that 20 clients have been working with us for 20 years or more! We are highlighting these clients in a series of E-Newsletters over the next few months.
In March of 1989, NOVA Fisheries bought a computer system and AddonSoftware from us. Our first seafood processor client, NOVA helped sponsor the development of a unique manufacturing costing system for their industry. Over the years, as with our other long-term clients, the software has been customized many times to fit them like a glove.
NOVA Fisheries was established in Boston, Massachusetts in 1985. Working with other companies to provide financing to advance Canadian-Atlantic fisheries, NOVA, early on, set its sights on two additional opportunities: first, to participate in other developing fisheries around the world; and second, to vertically integrate, beyond the primary catch, for the purpose of manufacturing value- added seafood products. NOVA opened their Seattle, Washington office in 1986, where they are based today. The company focused on working with ships that catch, process and freeze at sea. Simultaneously, NOVA began changing the form of this 'frozen-at-sea' catch, both in Seattle and Boston, to produce more convenient seafood products for both the restaurant and grocery trades.
Dependable cost accounting was vital to integrate these activities, but business software programs that were prevalent at that time were inefficient. Furthermore, these programs were largely written for industries that assembled parts to produce a final product. NOVA was essentially disassembling as well as (re)assembling. NOVA searched and found a leader in software development who serviced the lumber industry - - MicroAccounting Systems (MASI) - - whose clients harvested trees and manufactured [disassembled them into] board lumber in various dimensions and lengths. NOVA became a beta customer for MASI in 1989. Coordinated by NOVA's talented controller, Luci Wing, and with the experience of the several good people at MASI, software for the lumber trade was reconfigured for NOVA's growing and vertically-integrated seafood business.
NOVA participates in various at-sea operations although is best known for Alaska Weathervane Scallops and Southern Red King Crab. In its second area of operation, creating value added seafood, NOVA's manufacturing capabilities are diverse. Over the course of almost twenty-five years, NOVA has manufactured hundreds of products, some common and some developed 'inNOVAtively' and exclusively by NOVA. Sales of these products have reached all fifty states and more than twenty countries.
NOVA has never been just about the catch. NOVA has a track record of sustainable resource practices. Most recently NOVA received its second grant for sustainable fisheries management. In addition, NOVA has made charitable, cash, donations annually for a quarter century to organizations throughout the United States and around the world who in turn provide food relief, health services, housing, education, disaster relief as well as resource management. For more information, visit the "Outreach" section on the NOVA website. As the NOVA website explains, 'NOVA is a simple concept: 'Embracing leading technologies, like those provided by MicroAccounting Systems, respecting Mother Nature's bounty as a gift, cooperating with the men and women who fish, as well as those who buy the catch and giving back with gratitude; we are grateful to many.'
For more information, please see the NOVA website.
Thank you to NOVA Fisheries for the 21 years!! Let's keep it going!
To learn more about our 20 Clients for 20 Years, go to 20 Clients.
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About this newsletter
MASI News is an e-newsletter to our clients and friends. It contains information about products, services, or news topics that we think might be of interest to you. For more information on any of these items, please contact John Bledsoe (john@masi.com) or Joe Taylor (joe@masi.com), or call your MASI consultant.
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MicroAccounting Systems, Inc.
15050 SW Koll Parkway, Suite C
Beaverton, OR 97006 U.S.A.
Portland Phone (503) 641-4200
Seattle Phone (425) 885-4199
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