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三月 20, 2008

Candy man builds sweet business

Who knew that candy around the checkouts could be big business?That's been the case for Jim Schweikert and his Chandler-based company Liberty Distribution Co. LLC, which sells candy bars, sweet tarts, bubble gum, potato chips and hundreds of other snac...
 Humpty Dumpty
三月 14, 2008

Humpty Dumpty Potato-chip plant failure worries P.E.I. development minister

The closure of the Humpty Dumpty potato-chip plant in Summerside has P.E.I. Development Minister Richard Brown concerned about the province's investment there. The plant's 36 employees were told this week they'd be out of work by May. When it opened ...
 Sunflower field
三月 10, 2008

Phil Lempert's Sunflower Oil 101

Frito-Lay is making sunflower oil famous, they are one of the few companies that decided in the move away from Trans fats to use sunflower rather than returning to palm oil. It is important to note that Trans fats were originally developed to replace ...
Bulk potato storage for processing potatoes in the United Kingdom
三月 05, 2008

Quality of Potatoes for Processing and the effect of Potato Storage; Some Basics

The amount of reducing sugars in the potato are responsible for the colour formation of fried products. So if potatoes are too high in reducing sugars, they are not suitable for processing.
三月 05, 2008

Snack market set for billion dollar growth

The global snack market will be worth almost $300bn (€197.8bn) by 2010, as manufacturers move towards healthier products as well as developing markets, a new report predicts.   The 'Snack Foods' report, released yesterday by Global Industry Analysts(G...
三月 03, 2008

Kids’ weight gain linked to salty snacks and soda

Nothing goes better with salty than sweet and that might be the reason why kids who snack on salty foods tend to drink calorie-rich sodas and put on more weight, an article in Hypertension suggests. It’s well known that eating salty foods can make you...
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Chips and Snacks Production going local, very local
二月 27, 2008

Chips and Snacks Production going local, very local

Today we want to address a new development in the snack sector which I would call: 'Snack production going local' . Two companies, 'Fresh Chips' and 'The Chippery' each offer a different concept that eliminates the industrial potato chips production line or the snack factory and replaces it with a mini factory you may soon find on your street corner, literally.
二月 22, 2008

P&G marketers affected by consolidation

P&G has announced plans to consolidate its global business which is expected to result in the loss of several key marketing positions as underperforming brands are closed.
 the Chippery
二月 22, 2008

The Chippery: Potato chips made to order, while you wait

Every few minutes, Ralph Robinson puts another potato in the end of a small metal chute that's connected to a stainless-steel tank. At the opposite end of the 4-foot-long machine, thin, crispy potato chips roll off a wire conveyor belt and drop into a ...
二月 21, 2008

Conagra cuts jobs in Europe, Asia;Lamb Weston not affected

Conagra Foods is cutting back its operations in Asia and Europe, as the packaged-food manufacturer shrinks its international operations due to disappointing sales. "Sales for our consumer businesses weren't what we wanted them to be in those mark...
二月 21, 2008

Dale & Thomas bets on premium popcorn

There is urgency in the air at Dale &Thomas in Englewood, N.J., where Chief Executive Warren Struhl, its majority stakeholder, wants to prove that his firm can become, if not the "Starbucks of popcorn,"as he often says, at least a profita...
Recent Prices of Vegetable Oils
二月 20, 2008

How to deal with rising Food and Ingredient Prices

A few days ago we decided that we would dedicate this PotatoPro Newsletter to the rising ingredient prices. With a publication today by Pepsico on the impact of rising ingredient costs and today's closing price in New York for crude oil for the first time over $100 a barrel ($100.74), the topic could hardly be more current.
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PepsiCo says price rises will not hurt sales

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二月 20, 2008

ConAgra Foods Provides Unprecedented Nutrition Labeling

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二月 18, 2008

Profile of Pepsico CEO Indra Nooyi

Indra Nooyi is an entirely different kind of CEO, a product of her native India as well as of PepsiCo's family-values approach to grooming CEOs. She is not hung up on pay. She's not shy about asking for help when she needs it.   She's 52 years old an...
二月 15, 2008

Many snack foods in the US have gone 'trans-fat free'

Many snack foods and spreads on the market are now free of artery-clogging trans fat, but consumers still need to be savvy label-readers, according to researchers. In a sampling of packaged foods at a local Wal-Mart, researchers at the University of Mi...
Weaver's Potato Chips closes doors
二月 13, 2008

Weaver's Potato Chips closes doors

Weaver's Potato Chips, located in Lincoln, Nebraska, has announced it will close its doors at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday. According to the owner of the company, Dan Coch, all 80 employees were notified Wednesday morning of the closing. The Weaver's invest...

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