Noticias

Balaji Wafers plans capacity expansion of its production unit at Valsad in South Gujarat at the cost of Rs 50 crore (about 10 million USD). Besides, the company is planning to invest Rs 25 crore (about 5 million USD) for launch of new range of products...

Triarc Companies, Inc. (NYSE: TRY;TRY.B), the parent company of Arby’s Restaurant Group, Inc. which is the franchisor of the Arby’s® restaurant system, and Wendy's International, Inc. (NYSE: WEN), announced today that their respective shareholders have...

New product design for health-profiled snacks demands a clear message, as a new study demonstrates consumers may opt to ignore the healthy snack, despite what they say. Snacks with a healthy profile are blossoming in terms of sales, but findings...

Deprodeca, empresa del Grupo Gloria que provee al mercado de snacks con su marca MR. CHIPS, anunció que para el año 2009 proyecta incrementar en aproximadamente un 30% su volumen de compra de papas nativas a los agricultores altoandinos. Zulema Bazo...

Recientemente se ha creado la Red Nacional de Innovación en Patata y de la cual es coordinador José Ignacio Ruiz de Galarreta, investigador principal de NEIKER-Tecnalia. El objetivo general de la Red Papata es organizar y hacer operativa una red españo...

The minister of agriculture and water resources, Dr. Sayyadi Abba Ruma has disclosed that Nigeria is the fourth largest potato producer in the Sub-Saharan Africa, saying that potato which is produced mostly in the area of Jos, Plateau state has a rich ...

Curry and chips is a staple of many pub menus, while chips with curry sauce is a takeaway favourite. It takes a special kind of genius to combine the two, which is why pub customers are likely to be all fired up by the latest launch from Farm Frites.Cu...

Big french fry companies are undercutting P.E.I. potato prices by flooding the open market with cheap potatoes, says an sland potato farmer and a potato marketer.Jim Read, of J.B. Read Marketing Inc., and Danny Henricken, whose family has been growing ...

Nu doorpakken in Nederland en aandacht blijven genereren in andere landen’, is een van de conclusies in het Ecorys-rapport ‘Potato Supply Management’. De akkerbouwvakbond NAV heeft de ambitie om nu door te pakken met de krachtenbundeling van aardappelt...

A pest-resistant strain of genetically modified potato, earmarked for possible commercial release in South Africa, will be of no use to local spud farmers, said the African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) this week. It will also increase risk to the farmer ...

The British Food Standard Agency published a Food Surveillance Information Sheet on process contaminants in retail products in 2007This Food Surveillance Information Sheet (FSIS) contains the results from the first year of a three-year rolling program...

Indra Nooyi,PepsiCo Inc.'s chairman and chief executive, is steering the snack and beverage giant through its biggest challenges in nearly a decade.In an interview, Ms. Nooyi talked about managing in a volatile economic climate while expanding around t...