Potato News

A Peruvian and a Chinese photographer have won the world photography contest “Focus on a global food” launched by FAO and the United Nations as part of International Year of the Potato celebrations in 2008.Photographic essays by Eitan Abramovich, profe...

Improving on perfection is always a high risk strategy, but brand owner United Biscuits’ (UBUK) reckons Mini Cheddars are now better than ever.An improved recipe has added even more cheesiness to the taste and aroma of the iconic pub snack.The new reci...

Proctor and Gamble (P&G) has moved the digital account for its Pringles snack brand out of Agency.com, according to Revolution.The FMCG giant is believed to have handed the account to Wunderman as part of a strategy to step up its digital marketing...

Frito Lay Canada said it is shutting its Pointe Claire plant by year's end, throwing 59 people out of work.Production of chips and snacks will be transferred to other Canadian plants. Frito Lay is offering unspecified severance packages to its 59 emplo...

Frito-Lay will lay off 300 employees as part of 3,300 job cuts announced Tuesday by its parent company PepsiCo., but the Topeka plant won't be affected, a Topeka business leader said.Frito-Lay spokeswoman Aurora Gonzalez said 130 job cuts would take pl...

H.J. Heinz’s low-priced “comfort foods” will help the company weather the turbulent economy, according to Art Winkleblack Heinz’s chief financial officer. Heinz is doing well with its Ore-Ida frozen potatoes, soups, beans, and condiments. Winkleblack ...

Cargill's product manager starches, Chris Hollebek, provides his view on teh developments in the starch market in an interview with Foodnavigator (Video)

The affected potato growers whose potatoes were damaged in Kaltahar Cold storage in Islampur in 2003 and did not receive any compensation yet today turned up in the premises of Kaltahar cold storage in Islampur and started agitation under the banner o...

Jones Lang LaSalle's retail specialist team is hunting for properties for a 20-store expansion planned by fast-food chain Wendy's throughout New Zealand.The property consultants say the timing could not be better with the way the market has moved latel...

PepsiCo Inc (PEP.N) reported a quarterly profit that missed Wall Street expectations, hurt by disappointing U.S. soft drink sales. The maker of Pepsi-Cola drinks, Frito-Lay snacks and Quaker foods also said on Tuesday that it would cut 3,300 jobs, or...

In Nederland zijn door de gunstige weersomstandigheden van de afgelopen dagen de rooiwerkzaamheden weer op gang gekomen. Dit na de vertraging als gevolg van de flinke hoeveelheid regen van vorig weekeinde. Geschat wordt dat momenteel nog zo’n 20% van d...

Potatoes are just big and brown on the outside and white on the inside, right?Wrong."There are hundreds of varieties of potatoes out there,"said Meredith Myers, public relations manager for the U.S. Potato Board.Most people recognize the basi...