Potato News

Fast food companies are feeling the squeeze. On one hand, sales are growing in the emerging markets abroad. At the same time, however, the quick-service restaurants also are wrestling with a slowdown in their home U.S. market, and a backlash from med...

Quality is a top priority at Frigemo, the Swiss food processor that manufactures french fries for McDonald’s. To consistently match product quality to specifications, Frigemo relies on ADR® 4, an automatic defect removal system for potato strips from ...

Eten bij McDonald's in België kost gigantisch veel meer dan in de ons omringende landen. Een cheeseburger kost in ons land 1,95 euro. In Frankrijk eet je die al voor amper 0,95 euro, in Duitsland kost diezelfde cheeseburger 1 euro en in Nederland 1,55 ...

Sales for the three months ended January 30, 2008 increased $316 million, or 13.8%, to $2.61 billion, with growth in all five business segments. Volume increased 5.2%, driven by a 9.8% volume increase in Asia/Pacific, combined with solid growth in Euro...

China, India and other developing countries will become "critically important cornerstones"for the frozen food giant as increasingly time-pressed consumers in emerging economies start to reach for products that simplify their lives, said Dale...

Restaurants in Europe, the United States and Japan are testing technology to let diners order their food direct from a screen at their table instead of depending on a fellow human being to note their choice. Besides cutting costs, companies that sell ...

McDonald's Corp has begun offering home delivery in Shanghai, aiming to build a model in China to boost sales and help it catch up with rival Yum! Brands in the world's most populous country. McDonald's has built up a fleet of 300 motorcycles over th...

After two years of talks and research, Yum! Restaurants International, the owner of quick serve restaurant brands such as Pizza Hut and KFC, will finally introduce the Taco Bell brand in India in the latter half of 2008. Through with its first round of...

Walkers launches a massive on-pack promotion this month - designed to celebrate its home by offering consumers millions of pounds worth of savings off the best Britain has to offer - from theme parks to traditional pub lunches!With a massive £5 million...

French Fries manufacturer McCain Foods, will be adding an anaerobic digester to its site in Whittlesey, Cambridgeshire to turn its food-processing waste into biogas for use onsite.   The anaerobic digester will be up and running this May and will take...

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) announced today that it has acquired Kennewick, Wash.-based Watts Brothers, a privately held vegetable processing and agricultural company, to further grow and strengthen its core potato business operating under the Lam...

McDonald's quietly published new price quotes at its outlets starting Feb. 23, involving rises of between 5% and 10%, or 0.5 yuan to 1.5 yuan, for almost all products: burgers, soft drinks, French fries. This followed three separate price increases las...