Blue Crab Bay Change of Ownership

Ocean Bounty for the Blue Crab Bay Soup Lover

One of our vendors, Blue Crab Bay, is going through a change of ownership. Thankfully the company is staying right where it is on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Pamela Barefoot, founder and longtime president of Blue Crab Bay Co., has sold the company to Eastern Shore of Maryland native Elizabeth Lankford. “I had always been looking for an opportunity to return home to the Eastern Shore,” Lankford said. I look forward to leading the company and expanding our national reach.” Barefoot will remain on as founder for at least two years.
The new ownership marks the near-end of Barefoot’s involvement with the specialty food company, where she spent nearly 32 years building a successful business from her brainchild.

Barefoot, 66, said she has been thinking of an “exit strategy” in recent years that would allow her to gradually retire and give the next owner the opportunity to continue building the brand from its current location in Melfa, Va.<

Blue Crab Bay products have been very popular on our website since we started The Virginia Marketplace in 2006. We sell one of their signature products, Sting Ray Bloody Mary Mixer made with clam juice as well as their seafood soups and seafood dips. We sell these products separately and they are welcome additions to our gift baskets and boxes. We sell these products separately and they are welcome additions to our gift baskets and boxes. Check out all our Seafood Gift Baskets.