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The owners of Saratoga Specialties Company, which produces Original Saratoga Chips, are hoping to sell the business.

Key Technology, Inc. and Visys NV, a leading provider of chute-fed in-air sorters used by food processors and waste recyclers, have entered into a merger agreement.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has its sights set on the smartphone-wielding shopper, this week expanding use of the “Scan &Go” feature for its iPhone app to 40 stores in the Denver area.

The owner of potato brokerage firm Spud city sales will make an initial appearance in Portage County Circuit Court today on charges of not paying farmers for shipments of potatoes.

Publican en Chile un manual para apoyar y difundir la labor de numerosas organizaciones campesinas, en el campo de la conservación y mejoramiento de las papas nativa de Chiloé.

Earlier this week we reported on the frost affecting potato growers in Florida. According to a more recent article in the Packer, Florida grower-shippers for the most part escaped serious damage

Keith Belling quit his job as a corporate lawyer at age 27 and spent the next 15 years running a series of businesses, including a restaurant chain and a website for small businesses. In 2005, he set out to create a new snack with one of his former em...

At Ecofrost in Belgium, a new potato specialities line was commissioned last spring. The line is used to produce formed potato croquettes and pommes noisettes. Raw materials for these products are the rejects and the nubbin waste from the Kiremko Frenc...

The Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA) and the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) have announced that registration is now open for the co-located PROCESS EXPO and the International Dairy Show, taking place November 3-6, 2013 in Chic...

For the first time in its 75-year history, Lay's potato chips, one of the marquee brands from PepsiCo's Frito-Lay division, has introduced three new consumer-inspired potato chip flavors in stores throughout the United States.

French fry manufacturer McCain has worked with design agency BrandOpus to overhaul its entire product portfolio in the United Kingdom. The overhaul includes the introduction of an entirely new logo for the brand, the first such change in over 50 years.

This Potato Council report provides an overview and comparison of the costs of production of potatoes for processing in the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, France and Germany.