Potato News

To drive menu innovation in America's leading restaurant chains, the U.S. Potato Board is conducting a seminar series at the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone.This year's seminar, held from September 27 to 29, attracted 15 of the nation's most...

After posting another quarter of positive sales trends and profit growth, McDonald’s Corp. said October could be the month when its momentum finally falters in the face of the U.S. recession.Chief executive Jim Skinner said domestic same-store sales fo...

Is the broad-based discount strategy that many large chain supermarkets have employed to draw in business and increase purchases a good strategy?.The Lempert Report believes that by proclaiming price cuts on thousands of items, chains run the risk of u...

Ballarat region potato farmers have slashed the amount of seed they will sow this week because of a drop in demand. McCain Foods (Australia) has reduced the quota it will take from growers after next year's harvest and will pay them about $35 less pe...

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America today announced its Plano, Texas, headquarters has been awarded LEED® Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI). LEED is the natio...

Calbee Japan recently launched a purple version of their popular Jagabee potato snack. The Jagabee snacks are a formed potato stick sold in a cup and designed to fit a car cup holder. With the dough for the snacks being made from US potatoes at a joint...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Oct. 20 that it would seek to clear up the confusion caused by a surge of nutritional claims that manufacturers have begun to make on packaged food labels. Point of purchase labeling including Front of P...

Het FOD (Federale Overheidsdienst) economie heeft onverwacht een oogstprognose voor 2009 bekendgemaakt. Het door het Vlaams Ministerie van Landbouw gepubliceerde oogstcijfer komt uit op 3,33 miljoen ton, 13,5% meer dan in oogstjaar 2008 toen het defini...

The Inventure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNAK), a leading specialty snack food manufacturer, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 26, 2009, highlighted by a seventh consecutive quarter of year-over-year earnings growth, an ...

Today the management of McCain Belgium signed a transfer of its ready-meals branch activities in Ostend with Mrs. Isabelle Nojac and Mr. Abdelhaq Belhaj, two French entrepreneurs specialising in mass retailing and industry. The sale takes place within ...

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...

Cavendish Farms is taking unmarketable grain at its new bio-gas plant in New Annan, Prince Edward Island.The company will transport the wheat to the plant.It has been a difficult year for many Island grain farmers with higher levels of toxins making s...

The instability of the economic climate has affected Americans in countless ways, including in the kitchen. Early on in the economic downturn, it became apparent that Americans were headed back into the kitchen, cooking more meals at home to cut spendi...

Exports of food and non-alcoholic drinks bucked the recessionary trend and were up 10.2% to £4.82bn in the first six months of the year, according to new research commissioned by the Food and Drink Federation (FDF)[1]. Exports of all UK goods were dow...

United Biscuits (UBUK), a leading manufacturer of snacks, biscuits and cakes, has launched a range of savoury snacks 35p Price Marked Packs, available now, to help retailers and their customers beat the economic downturn. The new selection of Price Mar...

The South African government has rejected the Agriculture Research Council’s (ARC’s) application to provide genetically modified potatoes to local farmers, saying it was concerned about its safety and economic effect. “This is probably the mo...

McCain Foods has released its first global corporate social responsibility (CSR) report. This benchmark report, following the guidelines of the Global Reporting Initiative, outlines for the first time the company’s progress and commitment to continued ...

Leading snack food manufacturer, The Inventure Group (Nasdaq: SNAK), has expanded international distribution of its Burger King(TM) line of ready-to-eat snack chips to include 17 new countries throughout Asia, Europe and the Middle East. The new market...