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Starting from the premise that an exclusive beer requires an exclusive snack, the Swedish brewery St. Eriks prepared a beautifully designed box containing 5 hand-made potato chips (of course from potatoes planted and harvested by hand as well) and offered the box for 499 Swedish krones (USD 56)

For Belgian potato traders, Sweden is a small, but admittedly growing market. In late April, the potential for Belgian fresh and processed potato exports was further explored.

Today at the Stockholm International Water Institute's annual World Water Week, PepsiCo announced the company's latest Water Report and unveiled Hydro-BID, a tool that estimates the availability of freshwater in water-scarce regions.

HZPC has decided to end its participation in HZPC Sverige AB (Sweden, Billdal). Reason for the decision is insufficient profitability, caused by the slow modernization of the Swedish Seed potato market

Swedish chip brand Estrella are going to replace the Union Jack with an Irish tricolour following a request from an Irishman based in Sweden to correctly illustrate the history of salt and vinegar flavoured snacks.

The savoury snacks industry assembled en masse to do business on 12-13 June 2013 as exhibitors, delegates and visitors from over 70 countries around the world met in Gothenburg, Sweden, for the 15th edition of SNACKEX.

Snackex es la feria especializada en los sectores de los snacks salados y frutos secos más importante de Europa. Organizada por la Asociación Europea de Aperitivos (ESA), este evento bienal se celebra por primera vez en Gotenburgo (Suecia)

Rosenqvists, the Swedish manufacturer of equipment for the food industry, has extended its range of pellet frying systems. Rosenqvists range of the unique and patented Star Wheel Fryer has been extended with a fourth model. This extends the range of ...

Rosenqvists has appointed a new CEO – Jonas Palm. Jonas has a genuine background from sourcing and purchasing at international companies. He has a long experience from managing companies with production facilities related to manufacturing for the auto...

The Swedish harvest of table potatoes (all potatoes, only excludes potatoes used for starch production) is estimated at 581.000 tonnes. This is 38.100 tonnes or 7 percent more than the total harvest in 2010. Four counties dominate the cultivation of t...

De consumptieaardappeloogst in Zweden is becijferd op 581.000 ton. Dat is 31.800 ton (7 procent) meer dan in 2010. Dat deelt de rijksdienst landbouw in Jönköping mee. De hectareopbrengst is volgens de dienst uitgekomen op ruim 29 ton (plus 6 procent t...

Swedish machine manufacturer Rosenqvists has been busy lately with one of their specialties: industrial fryers. Rosenqvists recently installed a frying system designed for potato specialties like: rösti, hash browns, croquettes, pommes duchesse, etc. ...

Swedish machine manufacturer Rosenqvists introduces two new industrial fryers, one for the production of extruded snacks, another for the production of parfried potato specialties.

Donderdag blokkeerden actievoeders van Greenpeace in Zweden een opslagplaats waar het Duitse bedrijf BASF genetisch gemodificeerde Amflora-aardappelen bewaart.

RJ Herbert Engineering recently installed a new 1300 Auto-sort and Contractor Unit for one of Sweden’s major potato packers, Svegro.

Uitbreiding in andere landen, ook naar Nederland. Max, de hamburgerketen uit Zweden, wil expanderen. Er wordt gezocht naar een partner in ons land.

Op 23 december 2010 heeft Lantmännen Lantbruk haar 49-procent aandeel in Agrico Nordic AB verkocht aan haar partner Ypma & Zonen BV, 100% dochteronderneming van Coöperatie Agrico.

In the U.S., quick-serve operators are scrambling to figure out how they'll abide by the menu-labeling mandate requiring calorie counts be posted on menuboards.