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Agosto 08, 2010

Grootste koelhuisfaciliteit van Groot-Brittannië geopend voor Lamb Weston Meijer

Partner Logistics heeft in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, koelhuis van 220.660 vierkante meter groot geopend. Dit is volgens het bedrijf het grootste in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. De koelhuisfaciliteit werd ontwikkeld voor de aardappelverwerker Lamb Weston Mei...

Agosto 05, 2010

National Starch Food Innovation opens Opens New Concept Kitchen for Culinology in the United Kingdom

National Starch Food Innovation has invested in a state-of-the-art new demonstration kitchen facility at its Manchester office to enhance the company’s Culinology expertise in the UK. The Concept Kitchen was unveiled by Jorgen Kokke, Vice President &am...

Agosto 02, 2010

2010 potato Crop Progress in the United Kingdom

Below you find an excerpt of "Potato Weekly", by the Potato Council. This crop update, published on August 2, provides insight on the harvest and development of the potato production in the United Kingdom:Total early crop clearance to 31st Ju...

Julio 29, 2010

Pringles adds two new flavours to its Xtreme Range in the UK

The UK’s large sharing snack hopes to spice up snacks sales this summer with two new Pringles Xtreme flavours: Hot Paprika &Smoky Bacon and Spicy Sour Cream &Onion.The launch of the new Xtreme flavours builds on the success of the current Pring...

Julio 26, 2010

British potato vodka targets lucrative U.S. market

William Chase, owner of the only premium potato-based vodka distillery in Britain, plans to take on much larger, mass-produced luxury brands in the U.S. market, Chase told Reuters.Unlike all large-scale vodka producers, Chase Distillery grows, mashes a...

Julio 25, 2010

Seabrook Crisps planning second factory

Seabrook Crisps is looking to develop a second factory within the next five years. The company, which in the last three years has become the UK’s fastest growing potato crisp brand supplying all major supermarkets, intends to have a second factory up a...

Julio 24, 2010

United Biscuits' units may split in sale by Blackstone, PAI

The snacks and biscuits division of UK manufacturer United Biscuits could be parcelled out to different buyers, according to a research firm's analysis of the market following media reports the company is to be sold by its private equity owners.

Julio 23, 2010

New varieties for potato chips (crisps) impress in trials at Seabrook Crisps

A new potato processing variety has yielded well in trials in a difficult growing season.The new variety from Potato Innovations (PI), known only as YP0243, has yielded nearly 35t/ha of marketable ware in the trials.YP0243 is due to receive registratio...

Julio 21, 2010

Blackstone, PAI eye sale of United Biscuits

Reuters reports that private equity firms Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) and PAI Partners are considering selling Britain's United Biscuits for more than 2 billion pounds ($3.06 billion). Reuters refers to a person familiar with the matter. Blackstone an...

Julio 20, 2010

What REALLY happens to the Food Standards Agency

After last weeks speculations in the UK media on what would happen to the Food Standards Agency, the United Kingdom's food safety watchdog, here is the REAL plan, outlined in a press release by the Food Standards Agency, the Department of Health and th...

Julio 20, 2010

ASDA withdraws some own-brand crisps for gluten in salt and vinegar flavour

Asda (United Kingdom)has withdrawn some of its own-brand Salt &Vinegar, Variety and Boxed Crisps, because the salt and vinegar flavouring used in the crisps contains trace amounts of wheat gluten. This means the products, which are available in var...

Julio 19, 2010

Potato storage efficiency on the agenda at Storage Event

Issues surrounding potato storage such as efficiency will be one of the many topics on the agenda at the Storage Event to be held at Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research in Lincolnshire on 2 September.Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones from Bangor Universit...

Julio 17, 2010

UK's government cuts won’t stretch to Potato Council's levy funding

Potato growers gathered together for an update on the latest legislative, technical and environmental issues facing their sector at the East Midlands Potato Day held near Spalding in Lincolnshire.

English Roast Beef & Yorkshire Pudding winner walkers flavour cup

Julio 15, 2010

Winner Walkers Flavour Cup announced

Walkers, the UK’s No. 1 crisps and snacks manufacturer, has announced English Roast Beef &Yorkshire Pudding as the winner of its Walkers Flavour Cup campaign, the world’s first ever ‘crisp tournament’. The Sunday lunch flavour gained more than ...

Julio 14, 2010

IFST responds to FSA break-up story

Stories circulated yesterday reported that Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, would be announcing the break up of the Food Standards Agency. They also suggested that this break up was an indication that the Government had ‘caved in’ to the pressure of...

Julio 14, 2010

World Potato Congress 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland

World Potato Congress Inc (WPC Inc) President, Allan Parker and Potato Council Chairman Allan Stevenson, announced today that Edinburgh has been selected as the site of the 8th International World Potato Congress to be held in May 2012.It is the first ...

Julio 13, 2010

Euro Potato: Northern Europe crop and market development

Heavy rainfall at the start of the second week of July has benefited parts of Northern European, where the dry conditions are affecting the whole European potato industry. Most areas have crops two weeks behind last year. New crop tuber size and yields...

Julio 12, 2010

Schools Harvesting Renews Vigour For Potatoes

Potatoes have been the centre of classroom activity as thousands of Earlies, grown as part of the Potato Council ‘Grow Your Own Potatoes’ project, have been unearthed.Nearly half a million pupils have had a hand in growing their own potatoes this year ...