Potato News

Competition and market access are the two biggest issues facing the potato industry as it tries to expand exports.“We had been benefiting from having a weak dollar, but that has also made the cost of international programs higher,” said Bart Connors, ...

McCain Foods has extended its lease by another six years for its 95,000-square-foot US headquarters. The food processor of potato products has occupied the building, at 2275 Cabot Dr. in the Corporate Lakes Business Park, since it was purchased by Duke...

Akkerbouwers lopen warm voor het landelijke poolfonds SPA, waarmee ze de afzetmarkt voor frites- en exportaardappelen transparanter willen maken. Dat blijkt uit de grote belangstelling en het enthousiasme op de informatieavonden die deze week in Bergen...

The South Australian Potato Company says heat damage has left half of its crops with some level of damage. The company's business development coordinator, Julian Carbone, says white variety colliban suffered the most damage. He says the company has lo...

Seven years ago, alarms were sounded that acrylamide, a compound found in foods heated at high temperatures, could cause cancer. However, studies have not uncovered links to colon cancer or breast cancer, and now comes word from a Swedish study indicat...

Potato Salad manufacturer Johma is put up for sale by its British owner, Uniq. Stamford Partners was asked to investigate opportunities for joint ventures or sales of all Uniq's activities in Northern Europe. Uniq, profiling itself as the European chi...

La producción de papa fresca en China para el 08/09 se prevé en 65 millones de toneladas métricas , lo que no cambia mucho respecto al año anterior. En los últimos dos años, alrededor del 10 por ciento de la superficie de patata de China desplazó a otr...

Key Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:KTEC) announced today it has reached an agreement to acquire a minority interest in Proditec SAS. Proditec is a leading manufacturer of automated, solid dose pharmaceutical inspection systems based on machine vision technol...

As if unemployment rates, home foreclosures and the deepening recession weren't enough, the beleaguered casual-dining industry has to fend off new, formidable competition: fast-food chains. As consumers increasingly trade down to fast food, several pla...

Britain’s biggest crispmaker, Walkers, is aiming to take a bite out of the market for posh crisps by launching its own upmarket brand, Red Sky. Walkers does not appear anywhere on the packaging, presumably because the Leicester-based company did not fe...

Snack food manufacturer Intersnack Bulgaria will invest 18 million leva (12 million USD) in the construction of a crisp factory in Ihtiman in 2009, a company press release states, as reported by Investor.bgConstruction of the facility is scheduled to ...

Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) has completely overhauled its oldest and biggest store brand, a move likely to send shock waves through the ranks of branded grocery manufacturers around the globe. For the past year, Wal-Mart has worked with suppliers and consu...