Tendencias Alimentarias

    Over the past five years, China’s food processing industry has grown at nearly 30 percent annually, with 2008 total gross output value expected to reach RMB four trillion ($588 billion).Continuing economic development, expansion of trade into the ...

La cadena estadounidenses McDonald's contratará a 10.000 personas para sus sucursales de comida rápida en China y prevé también subir los salarios.

KFC Holdings (M) Bhd aims to create 1,200 jobs in Malaysia this year as it continues to expand its network of 442 outlets in the country to 482 by year-end, said managing director Jamaludin Md Ali. The company had opened six outlets year-to-date, with ...

The National Potato Council (NPC) and United States Potato Board (USPB) are pleased to announce the US potato industry can now begin exporting fresh potatoes to Russia. A market access agreement between the United States and Russia was signed on March ...

India's potato production has seen a phenomenal increase since the 1950s, mainly due to strong demand from the processing industry and remunerative returns.

Yum Brands Inc. said late Tuesday it has agreed to buy a 20% interest in Little Sheep Group Ltd., a popular restaurant chain with locations mostly in China and Hong Kong, for $63 million. Yum Brands Inc, which operates KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and oth...

McDonald's has announced that it is appointing Kenneth Chan from Singapore as its new CEO for he China area, replacing Jeffrey Schwartz. Chan has 12 years working experience in McDonald's. Prior to this appointment, he was regional manager for Malaysi...

Down an alley from a KFC, McDonald's and Pizza Hut here, Li Hong sat inside a dingy little storefront that serves full-course dinners for a dollar.A Western fast-food meal would have cost three times that much, said the young woman, who works as a sale...

Kentucky Fried Chicken said yesterday its prices will go down starting today.KFC has to cut prices to get back customers won over by a rival fast food chain, McDonald's. The catch is a customer has to buy a second meal to enjoy the 50 percent discount ...

McDonald's China anunció el día 4 un plan de expansión para abrir 175 nuevas tiendas y generar más de 10.000 empleos en la parte continental de China a pesar de la desaceleración económica global. La expansión es la mayor que lleva a cabo McDonald's ...

Mcdonald's Corp (MCD), the world's largest fast-food chain, has cut some prices by as much as a third in China where once booming economic growth has slumped amid the global financial crisis.In what the company calls "the best ever value meal comb...

La crisis no ha impedido que la principal cadena de comida rápida del mundo haya logrado incrementar su beneficio en 2008 en un 80%, hasta los 4.313 millones de dólares (3.307 millones de euros). Además, McDonald’s seguirá creciendo y abrirá unos 1.000...

Frito-Lay Japan has decided that "Coffee Crisp" should be more than just a pretty name. Their new Caramel Macchiatto and Green Tea Latte flavor corn chips pack two cups of coffee's worth of caffeine into each bag.The so-called "caffeine ...

McDonald's Corp. (NYSE:MCD) will add 12,000 jobs and open 240 new restaurants across Europe this year, the Financial Times in London reported on Saturday, citing the company's president of European operations. The fast-food chain's plans for expansion ...

McDonald's says it likely will become the first restaurant chain in Japanese history to surpass a half-trillion yen, or $5.6 billion, in yearly sales. Officials of McDonald's Holdings Co. Japan says sales are likely to top 500 billion yen in the 2008 b...

Álvaro Sánchez aplica lo que predica. Nunca se priva de alimentos que muchos consideran “chatarra”. Y no lo hace por amor a la bandera sino por convicción, porque, en realidad, se declara atraído por las papas fritas, los Doritos y los Cheetos. Claro q...

Although McDonald's Corp.'s sales may see some pressure from a slower economy in China, Wall Street analysts say the company should still report long-term sales and profit growth in its Asia Pacific region.At an investor meeting Friday detailing its As...

McDonald's Corp said on Friday it had opened its 1,000th store in China in the southern province of Guangdong, and planned to open another 175 stores in the country in 2009."McDonald's will be continuing to invest and build in China at an ever inc...