{"id":5096,"date":"2021-01-04T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2021\/01\/04\/medical-fish-skin-specialists-rapid-growth\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:51:59","slug":"medical-fish-skin-specialists-rapid-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/medical-fish-skin-specialists-rapid-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical fish skin specialist\u2019s rapid growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During that time, sales of Kerecis Omega3 Wound grew 120% in the US, making Kerecis the fastest growing company in this market. The increase in quarterly sales makes the company the 11th largest vendor in regenerative tissue for 3Q 2020, up from 14th largest in 3Q 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCompassion for patients drives our growth,\u201d explains founder and CEO Fertram Sigurj\u00f3nsson. \u201cWe want trained medical professionals to have our innovative fish-skin technology on hand to save lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kerecis saw its market share grow over 100% in this time period as a result of rapid market expansion and favourable market reception of its FDA-approved, patented fish-skin products. The company achieved its 120% growth in sales organically.<\/p>\n<p>Kerecis has more than doubled its sales every year since entering the US market in 2016. The Icelandic Growth Consortium named Kerecis Iceland\u2019s fastest growing company in both 2020 and 2017. The company continues to diversify applications of its technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTens of thousands of patients have been treated with our sustainably sourced, fish-skin graft,\u201d Fertram Sigurj\u00f3nsson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur initial growth came from treating diabetic wounds, but now more and more wounds of other types are being treated, such as acute and burn wounds.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerecis is the fastest growing company in the regenerative-tissue market in the United States according to SmartTRAK Business Intelligence, which compared industry-sales and market-share data for 3Q 2020 to 3Q 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5098,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5096\/revisions\/5098"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5096"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}