Potato News

Welsh snacks manufacturer Real Crisps is to supply a range of TGI Friday’s branded snacks in the UK. TGI snacks, based on the successful bar-restaurant venue, are already a big seller in the US. Crumlin-based Real Crisps is now the official UK distri...

Malaysia's crude palm oil (CPO) production rose 2.7 percent to 1.6 MMT in September,bringing total CPO production for 2006/07 to 15.3 MMT. The increase in palm oil exports was offset by a bigger increase in CPO production, resulting in an increase in c...

The world's third-largest retailer, has begun its long-awaited launch in the United States, opening its first store near Los Angeles. Britain's most successful retailer opened its Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market in the small city of Hemet late last week.

Burger King Holdings Inc. said Monday its first-quarter earnings rose 23 percent, but shares of the world's second largest hamburger chain fell more than 6 percent as three big shareholders disclosed plans to sell about a third of their holdings.

La cadena estadounidense de restaurantes Burger King Holdings Inc reportó el lunes un aumento mayor al esperado en su utilidad del primer trimestre fiscal, gracias a sus nuevos sándwiches de pollo y sus promociones de las películas "The Simpsons&...

Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner today announced that USDA provided more than $234 million to help market American farm products overseas in the 2007 fiscal year that ended Sept 30.   The allocations were provided under the Market Access Progr...

Will Chase, 46, founder and managing director of Tyrrells, said the firm planned to use the money won in the Entrepreneurs Challenge to make vodka from potatoes grown on the farm but which are too small to turn into crisps. The company has already b...

Aanvankelijk leek Pinguin in Engeland zijn eigen graf te delven, maar vandaag heeft het bedrijf de Britse oorlog gewonnen. Daardoor kan het opnieuw werk maken van het Centraal-Europees project om daar als eerste grote Belgische diepvriesspecialist in e...

The sweet and salty snack industry has suffered a lower sales growth rate in 2007 due to negative press over rising obesity rates, but sales still increased by almost two per cent in 2007, according to Euromonitor analyst Irina Kazanchuk.PepsiCo has b...

In 2003 and 2004, the fast-food giant ranked No. 1 in Fortune Magazine's listing of "Top 50 Companies for Diversity."In 2006 and 2007, Latina Style magazine called McDonald's "Number One Company for Latinas to Work." Ralph Alvarez,...

La Agencia Canadiense de Inspección de Alimentos anunció que se ha confirmado la presencia de verruga de la papa en un campo en la Isla del Príncipe Eduardo.

La producción de "Pataca de Galicia"de 2007, que se comercializa por primera vez como Indicación Geográfica Protegida (IGP), es de siete millones de kilogramos, totalmente insuficiente para la demanda de este producto, sobre todo en Madrid y ...