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Tricana / Prata do Mar

Tricana is the flagship sardine brand of Conserveira de Lisboa, a family cannery founded in 1930/1942 whose can-label design has stayed unchanged since 1942.

At a glance

Notable facts

• Tricana's can-label design has stayed unchanged since 1942.
• Fillets are still placed in cans by hand.
• The original 1930s shop interior is preserved at the Lisbon storefront, which is a working retail shop as well as a cannery outlet.
• Conserveira de Lisboa also owns the house brands Prata do Mar and Minor — Minor should not be confused with the separate, unrelated Portuguese brand Minerva (made by A Poveira, owned by Grupo Frinsa).

Origin

Conserveira de Lisboa traces back to 1930, when it began life as the grocery Mercearia do Minho; the company formally took its current name and registered its house brands — Tricana, Prata do Mar, and Minor — in 1942. It remains an independent, family-run cannery, now in its third generation under the Ferreira/Cabral family.

Tricana is the flagship of the three brands. Its can-label artwork hasn't changed since 1942, and fillets are still placed in the tins by hand at the company's Lisbon premises, where the original 1930s shop interior is preserved as a working retail storefront.

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