Tendencias Alimentarias

Retail food prices at the supermarket decreased slightly in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the latest American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey. The informal survey shows the total cost of 16 basic grocery items in the fourth quarte...

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) announced today that Doug McMillon, 42, will be promoted to president and chief executive officer of Wal-Mart International, the company’s second largest operating segment. McMillon, currently president and CEO of Sam’...

The Government is threatening to regulate the food industry to stop firms promoting unhealthy eating habits among the nation's seven million schoolchildren, the Health minister, Ben Bradshaw, warned yesterday.He described as "completely unacceptab...

Restaurateurs were hit with a double whammy of increased costs and dropping sales in 2008. But looking back at the carnage, there are a few bright spots. Although the restaurant sector dropped by 20%, it still beat the S&P’s 38% loss. In fact, ther...

Members of the Washington State Potato Commission's research committee recently returned from a trip to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Western Regional Research Center.Commission Research Director Andy Jensen said the reason for the trip to the A...

Most cooks are familiar with the thickening properties of corn starch, but potato starch is every bit as much up to the job, say scientists with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). They’re working on a project to further examine the structure and...

The outlook for the restaurant industry worsened in November, as the National Restaurant Association’s comprehensive index of restaurant activity fell to a record-low level. The Association’s Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) – a monthly composite ind...

Potato production in the state is expected to reach 22.7 million cwt in 2008 from 81,000 harvested acres, which is down 11 percent from last year. The average production per acre was higher, however, with the 2008 average yield pegged at a record high ...

As of Jan. 1 2009 more than 1,500 fast-food and chain restaurants throughout Seattle and King County will be required to post on their menu boards or some other "easily readable"sign how many calories, milligrams of sodium and grams of satura...

McDonald's Ukraine Company has opened the McDonald's fast food restaurant at 14a, Krasnova Street in Odesa, expanding its chain in the city to the seventh and 64th in UkraineAccording to a Monday press release of the company, investment in the construc...

La cadena norteamericana Burger King comenzará la comercialización de sus productos en los supermercados, decisión que ya puso a prueba en su país de origen. La línea de alimentos que inicialmente formará parte de la estrategia está compuesta por papa...

Fact sheets / flyer / leaflet-2008 (PDF, 434 kb)

Hoja Divulgativa -2008 (PDF, 434 kb)

Foodservice consultants and research firm Technomic has released its top trends for the restaurant industry in 2009. The consulting group said that while the industry may be facing the toughest New Year in recent memory, opportunities are still present...

Here's something very Southern California about Hanukkah: Trying to make a world-record setting potato pancake in a solar-paneled oven. "With the new president [of the United States] coming in, the whole thing is about the environment,"said ...

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...

Vales Sovereign, a new potato from Greenvale AP, won 'Variety of the Year' in the Tesco Fresh Produce Category. The coveted Variety of the Year award looks at all produce, including fruit as well as vegetables, and the Greenvale team was overjoyed whe...

A deal on two pieces of EU legislation banning a number of highly toxic chemicals within pesticides and reducing pesticide use has been reached between MEPs and representatives of European Union member states.Under the first, according to the agreement...