News On French Fries and Potato Specialties

The North American potato industry continues to battle a misperception about the nutritional value of potatoes, according to the CEO of McCain Foods USA.

There’s been a lot of noise in the press recently about a large Canadian company claiming it’s going to ‘revolutionise’ the way we eat jacket potatoes by baking and freezing them - but, here’s a thought - a small British company, Bannisters’ Farm, has...

The French fry appears to be taking sole blame of Americans being obese.

Food producers can cut costs and boost environmental credentials by recycling food waste at a new anaerobic digestion plant in Wiltshire, UK

An image problem continues to trouble all sectors of the spud industry, according to the Alliance for Potato Research and Education

Yasheng Group, a high-growth diversified China-based agricultural company with US headquarters in California, recently announced plans to expand farming operations in 2012.

The potato industry is behind a unified effort to learn more about acrylamide - which was discovered in food about ten years ago.

McCain Foods in Ballarat has denied plans to shift its local plant to New Zealand within 18 months.

McCain Foods has launched a new jacket potato product that it claims will be ready in just five minutes, offering consumers the taste of a slow-baked product in rapid time.

One of the Potato Council’s biggest annual awareness campaigns of the year kicks off next month in the shape of ‘Chip Week’.

The Victorian Farmers Federation is worried about the long-term future of the giant McCain Foods' processing plant in Ballarat.

It is not all one-way traffic from New Zealand to Australia as recent significant business decisions by Heinz-Wattie's and McCain Foods have shown.

The new JR Simplot potato processing plant in Caldwell could emit less pollution than the facility it will replace, according to an air quality permit application.

To help Canadian foodservice operators and distributors succeed in a highly competitive market, McCain Foods (Canada) has launched McCain Menu Advantage

McDonald’s Corp. previewed a new ad campaign Wednesday on Twitter, sharing a 15-second commercial that showcases the brand’s ingredients and recognizes the farmers and ranchers in its supply chain.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, McCain Foods Limited is the world’s largest producer of French fries and potato specialties with 53 plants on six continents and sales of over CAD$6 billion.

For many years you didn’t hear much on french fries from fast food restaurants. And that has hurt the product. If there is no pride invested in the product and if there is no effort to distinguish it from the neighbour’s french fries, quality might slide, the product easily becomes a bulk item and innovation in the category suffers as consequence.

After a three day strike, production resumed at the McCain French fry factory in Harnes, France. Employees on strike voted to return to work according to a statement of management. They will receive a wage increase of 2.2% on January 1, 2012. They dem...