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United Arab Emirates-based Lamb Weston sales manager Sajju Balan says that the Dutch firm’s close working relationship with its hospitality clients has played a key role in its success in the Middle East.Lamb Weston has been supplying industry kitchens...

This is a link to the Indian Food and Drink Blog of Vir Sanghvi. In this post Vir Sanghvi addresses McCain Foods India and some of their products.An exerpt:"Contrary to what I believed, Mr Narayanan was not just some import manager for McCain’s. H...

The average Canadian eats 30 pounds of french fries per year. In China, per capita consumption is less than 3½ ounces. McCain Foods Ltd. is trying to turn the figures for Asia's largest country around.And there is hope for McCain, whose biggest fast-f...

McCain Foods India Pvt Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of McCain Foods Ltd. Canada, has introduced a unique product - Masala Fries for the Institutional customers. The product has been introduced at Hosts 2010 being held in Mumbai annually. It is India’s fi...

It is hard to believe that the humble chip has become so contentious across the globe. A potent symbol of American business success but also a virtual pariah in the United States, it’s been patronised by presidents, played a prominent role in several w...

The United States Potato Board (USPB) Philippine Representative Office organized a Thanksgiving Dinner for its trade partners and media who have been supportive of US frozen potato products and events over the past several years. The dinner was held at...

Today the management of McCain Foods Taiwan announced the sale of its dumpling and hot pot ingredients manufacturing activities in Kaohsiung’s Chi Shan area to Sinkung, a Taiwanese food processer specialising in Asian foods. The buyers have expressed t...

Baked, grilled, pureed. Turkey has seen practically every form of potatoes. But now, one of Turkish cuisine’s most popular ingredients is being eaten from a cone.Potatoes are no doubt one of the most indispensable ingredients in Turkish cuisine. They c...

Agrarfrost, a leading European frozen potato producer headquartered in Wildeshausen, Germany, has officially launched operations in China.“As the first German producer to enter the country, we have begun to meet rising market demands with an approach u...

The state has less than a month’s stock of potatoes and the new crop is not expected till the last week of December. This emerged on Thursday at meetings held by the two cold storage associations in the state. “Around 660,000 tonnes of potatoes are le...

In Nepal, the price of potato has increased by 50 per cent over the past one year, musuro by 30 per cent, black gram by 21 per cent, rice by three per cent and wheat flour by six per cent. The price of cooking oil has, however, reduced — by around 15 p...

McDonald's Corp. is staking its future in India on burgers made from mashed potatoes, peas and spices. Sumil Mittal says it's a good bet. Mittal, 19, sits beneath the golden arches at a McDonald's in Ambala, a small town 125 miles north of New Delhi....

It is still an uphill climb for Benguet’s potato growers (Phillipines) who hope to clinch a niché in the lucrative French fries industry. The province produces most of the country’s supply of potatoes. It is there where the best varieties are grown. An...

In 2007 the managers of McCain Foods factory in Harbin (China) decided modifications were necessary to protect their pump system, and sought a solution from the engineering firm of AMEC Geomatrix, a specialist in the industrial and food processing indu...

Agra is globally known for being the city where one of the seven wonders of the world, Taj is situated. But what has Agra to do with the Potato? A lot, according to a study conducted by the marketing department of Indian Institute of Management, Luckno...

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

China's fresh potato production in MY08/09 is forecast at 65 million metric tons (MMT), not much change from the previous year. In the past two years, about 10 percent of China’s potato acreage shifted to other plantings due to the growth in grains pro...

According to a report published by the Asia Pulse agency, Indonesian provinces Jambi and North Sulawesi that have good fertility and climate will be developed into potato production centers for french fries. In the province of Jambi in particular, pota...