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Maureen Storey wants doctors, dieticians and nutritionists singing the praises of potatoes. Storey heads the Alliance for Potato Research and Education (APRE) that was formed about one year ago in the US to combat the decline in potato consumption.

A strike at McCain Foods in France has expanded to a second factory. The strike started a week ago sunday at McCain’s french fry plant in Matouges. As of today, the McCain plant in Harnes is on strike as well. Employees at the French plants demand a ...

Former dabur India head of innovation Vikas Mittal has joined McCain Foods India as its MD. Mittal was head of innovation at Dabur in July 2011, prior to which he was executive VP (marketing) for the personal &home care division. Mittal has also w...

Restaurant Hospitality, a leading foodservice trade magazine reported on the top trends for 2012, according to hospitality and restaurant consultancy Andrew Freeman &Co.  These are the fifth annual choices for buzz-worthy trends in restaurants, spa...

Op een doorsnee dag in de eerste drie kwartalen van 2011 aten 800.000 Vlamingen, dat is 12,6 procent van de bevolking, friet. Dat blijkt uit een bevraging door Insites Consulting in opdracht van het Vlaams Centrum voor Agro- en Visserijmarketing (VLAM).

McCain Foods (Canada) honoured it's Central Plains potato producers at a dinner November 23 in Portage la Prairie. During the annual Growers Banquet, the Top 10 growers for the year were named. Anton Wiebe Ltd. was named the 2011 McCain champion pota...

Processors in Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon used 7.49 million cwt of raw potatoes during October, an increase of 6 percent from last October. Accumulated processing of 2011 crop raw potatoes to November 1 was 20.5 million cwt, up 40 percent.

Reser's Fine Foods Inc announced that on November 15, 2011 the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware accepted the bid from Reser’s Fine Foods, Inc. (“Reser’s”) to purchase substantially all of the assets and operations of Chef Solutions In...

A 44 year old employee of Aviko Steenderen was fatally wounded during a work place accident in Aviko's potato processing factory. The accident happened thursday night and was reported around 2.40 am. The man was cleaning a fryer when due to unknown ca...

Een 44-jarige man uit Zwolle is in de nacht van donderdag op vrijdag bij een bedrijfsongeval in de fabriek van Aviko in Steenderen om het leven gekomen. De Arbeidsinspectie stelt een onderzoek in. Het ongeval werd rond tien over half drie bij de alarmc...

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) announced today that Andrew George Ross joined the company on Nov. 15 as executive vice president and chief strategy officer, reporting to Gary Rodkin, CEO. Ross will lead the company’s strategic planning process, with s...

Doga Seed and BMA successfully completed the installation of a new 3000 kg/h french fries production line in Nevsehir, Turkey.

Fourth-generation potato farmer Dominic Prendergast is hoping for a better potato season than last year. At the beginning of this year he led a group of Ballarat growers in a successful protest for better prices against global food giant McCain. In M...

McDonald's is organising a contest around the famous phrase 'Do you want fries with that'. Please note that this McDonald's contest is held in the United States only. Here are more details from McDonald's.

Management at McCain Foods manufacturing facility in Mehsana hosted senior Canadian government officials who were on a recent trade mission to India to strengthen and advance bilateral trade between the two countries. Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of I...

ConAgra Foods announced Thursday they have dropped plans to build their much anticipated Lamb Weston Office in Riceland's Columbia Point Area. However, they are still going to expand their operation in the Tri Cities. They're now planning to build nex...

Mattel, Inc. [NASDAQ:MAT] today announced the election of Dirk Van de Put, president and chief executive officer of McCain Foods Limited, to the Mattel Board of Directors, effective as of December 1, 2011. This election will increase the number of Matt...

The J. R. Simplot Company is planning to build a state-of-the-art potato processing plant in Caldwell, Idaho, with site preparation anticipated to begin next May and start-up expected by spring of 2014.