Diepvriesfrites en aardappelspecialiteiten uit de Verenigde Staten

augustus 26, 2008

McCain Foods USA Launches Politically Inspired National Marketing Campaign

McCain Foods USA, Inc., the U.S. division of McCain Foods Limited, the world's largest producer of French fries and potato products, today announced the launch of a national integrated marketing campaign via Schafer | Condon | Carter (SCC). The fun and...

augustus 21, 2008

Heinz profit rises on french fries, China dumplings

H.J. Heinz Co. said first-quarter profit rose 12 percent and forecast full-year earnings that exceeded its earlier projection on sales of Ore-Ida french fries in the U.S. and dumplings in China.

augustus 06, 2008

ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston, Ochoa Foods Announce New Joint Venture

ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston, the largest potato company in North America with annual sales exceeding $2 billion, and Ochoa Foods, a privately owned potato processing company based in Boise, Idaho, announced today that they have entered into a new joint ...

augustus 04, 2008

Restaurant menus unhealthy for kids - report

Parents looking for healthy meal choices for their children are likely to find slim pickings on the menus of the nation's top restaurant chains, according to a report released Monday by a nonprofit public health group. Nearly every possible combinatio...

augustus 01, 2008

California attorney general settles acrylamide lawsuit with Frito-Lay, Lance, Kettle Foods and Heinz

California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today settled lawsuits against Heinz, Frito-Lay, Kettle Foods and Lance Inc. after the companies agreed to slash levels of the cancer-causing chemical acrylamide in their potato chips and french fries. “T...

juli 30, 2008

Food Network crews to film french fries at Lamb Weston's Richland potato plant

Food Network production crews will be in Richland today at ConAgra Lamb Weston's potato plant shooting an episode about french fries. The episode is for the new Food Network series How'd That Get On My Plate? said Marti DeMoss, a ConAgra spokeswoman....

juli 28, 2008

Still uncertain if Ochoa will rebuild the Wild river Foods french fry factory in Grandview

Company officials for the Wild River Foods potato processing plant, which was gutted by fire on July 1, have not decided if they will rebuild, according to a statement issued Monday. "It has been almost 30 days since the fire consumed our plant ...

juli 25, 2008

Bunge Reports Second Quarter Results

Financial highlights: Total segment EBIT reached $1,078 million Agribusiness results were strong across the business Fertilizer benefited from the strong global agricultural environment

juli 18, 2008

Idaho potato farmers plant 300.000 acres, a 12.3% decline

United Potato Growers of Idaho projects 300,266 acres of potatoes in Idaho for the 2008-09 season, down 12.3 percent from the acreage counted in 2007-08 by the Farm Service Agency.United announced the results of its first-ever potato acreage count at t...

juli 17, 2008

ConAgra Foods Announces Dividend Payment

The board of directors of ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) approved a dividend payment of $0.19 per common share, to be paid on Sept. 4, 2008, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Aug. 1, 2008.

juli 15, 2008

Work starts on burned Grandview potato plant

Some restoration work is under way at the destroyed Wild River Foods potato processing plant in Grandview, but the plant's owners said in a letter Monday that they still haven't decided if they will rebuild.A sparking electrical panel caused a fire tha...

juli 03, 2008

Other processors can accommodate potato growers supplying Grandview plant

A representative for potato growers in the state said Tuesday that other process-ors should be able to pick up the volume of potatoes that would have been handled by the Grandview plant destroyed by fire. But Dale Lathim, executive director of Othel...

juli 02, 2008

Fire at Wild River Foods french fry processing plant destroys large chunk of Grandview's economy

Tuesdaymorning the Wild River Foods french fry processing plant in Grandview, Washington burnt to the ground in what is described as a total loss. Wild River Foods went up in flames when a short in an electrical panel sparked a fire that quickly co...

juni 26, 2008

ConAgra Foods Reports Higher-Than-Planned Q4 EPS; Expects Strong Performance in Fiscal 2009

ConAgra Foods, Inc. today reported results for the fiscal 2008 fourth quarter ended May 25, 2008. Overall sales grew 15% and diluted EPS from continuing operations grew 38%. Current-quarter diluted EPS (continuing and discontinued operations) was $0.41...

juni 26, 2008

ConAgra profit up;forecast lags expectations

ConAgra Foods Inc. reported Thursday its quarterly net income rose 4.8% from a year ago, helped by its specialty potato and ingredients business and its just-divested commodities-trading unit. ConAgra, which has been restructuring its business to focus...

juni 25, 2008

Still No Deal on Land for New Lamb Weston Corporate Office

It's been more than a year since the Richland City Council agreed to sell a tract of land at Columbia Point to ConAgra subsidiary Lamb Weston for a corporate office building and the deal still hasn't closed. So the Richland City council Tuesday talke...

juni 24, 2008

Novozymes: Acrylaway industry implementation 'progresses as expected'

Acrylaway, the acrylamide-reducing enzyme from Novozymes, has received approval in a slate of countries worldwide and is now being applied across broad range of bakery and snack products. The Danish enzyme specialist launched Acrylaway to the industry ...

juni 10, 2008

Out of the frying pan and into the power grid

If used frying oil can run a Mercedes, why can't it power the restaurant it came from? That's the idea behind Owl Power Company's Vegawatt power system, a machine that converts a restaurant's waste oil into electricity and hot water. The company now...