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China, February 06, 2010

McDonald's Restaurant in Shanghai, China

The average Canadian eats 30 pounds of french fries per year. In China, per capita consumption is less than 3½ ounces.

McCain Foods Ltd. is trying to turn the figures for Asia's largest country around.

And there is hope for McCain, whose biggest fast-food restaurant chain clients, KFC and McDonald's, are seeing exponential growth in China - a country of 1.3 billion people.

Just over 20 years ago, McCain felt the Chinese market wasn't strong enough to warrant setting up a french fry factory.

KFC and McDonald's were just breaking into China in the late 1980s and neither were posting figures that would entice McCain to move in as an on-the-ground supplier.

In the mid-'90s, though, business started to pick up and McCain began selling into China seriously.

By 2005, it had built its own potato processing plant to help meet demand.

Now, the company says it is the largest producer and supplier of both domestically produced and imported frozen potato and appetizer products in China.

Terry Bird, vice-president of corporate development and emerging markets, predicts that less than two decades from now, Asia alone is set to match the scale of McCain's entire global operation.

"Last year, we did $6.5 billion in the world with 20,000 employees at 60 factories," he says.

"We see Asia, the potential for Asia, being as big as our whole company in 10 to 15 years' time."

New Brunswick Business Journal
European Union, February 01, 2010

European Potato Processors Association
EUPPA, the European Potato Processors’ Association, is the new name of the former UEITP (Union européenne des industries de transformation de pommes de terre), as its president Kees Meijer stated during a meeting today with members of the European Parliament and staff members of the European Commission in the buildings of the European Parliament in Brussels.

Although the European potato processing industry is a rather young sector in the food industry, the European association has already been created in 1962. Since then the sector had developed in a spectacular way to a world player with about 12 million tonnes of potatoes (20 % of the total EU crop) being processed to frites, crisps, croquettes, flakes, mashed, and other potato products. More than 25.000 employees have found a job in this industry.

550.000 tonnes of finished product is being exported all over the world. On world level the major exporters are The Netherlands, Canada, Belgium and the United States. However the sector has also a rich tradition of marketing a wide variety of potato specialities in the various EU member states.

It was no coincidence that the first EUPPA event took place under the title ‘bringing tradition on today’s plate, all over the world’.

EUPPA represents the potato processors of the ‘big five’ potato producers in the EU (Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and United Kingdom), but also of Austria, Italy, Poland and Sweden and is a member of the CIAA, Europe’s food industry association.

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2/8/2010First french fry contract settled in the US NewUnited StatesLamb Weston
2/6/2010McCain is after a lion's share of China's fast food marketNewChinaMcCain Foods Limited; McDonalds Corporation; KFC; Simplot Foods Group
2/4/2010US demand for Frozen Food Packaging in 2013 close to 7bnUnited States
2/1/2010UEITP now EUPPA (European Potato Processors Association)European UnionEUPPA (European Potato Processors Association)
2/1/2010McCain Foods India introduces Masala French FriesIndiaMcCain Foods Limited
1/29/2010Verkoop "stoom"-frituur HiFri verloopt moeizaamNetherlands
1/29/2010Aardappelverwerkende Industrie verwacht moeilijk jaarBelgiumFarm Frites
1/28/2010Euro Potato: Wintry weather affects european potato marketsEuropean Union
1/22/2010Lagere prijzen voor aardappelen in contracten voor teeltjaar 2010NetherlandsAviko; Farm Frites; Lamb Weston Meijer; McCain Foods Limited; Nederlandse Akkerbouw Vakbond
1/19/2010Three French Fry manufacturing plants awarded EPA Energy StarUnited StatesSimplot Foods Group; Lamb Weston
1/14/2010Fire at McCain Foods Timaru Potato Storages New ZealandMcCain Foods Limited
1/13/2010McCain Foods Canada to use more "simple ingredients"CanadaMcCain Foods Limited
1/11/2010Responses to NYC led National Salt Reduction InitiativeUnited StatesFrito-Lay; Conagra Foods Inc.; Snack Food Association; National Restaurant Association (NRA)
1/11/2010Ecolab introduces Exelerate ZTF, a Breakthrough cleaning Solution for Food Processing Plants Utilizing Zero Trans Fat OilsUnited States
1/11/2010Mintel: UK consumers dig potatoes againUnited Kingdom
1/8/2010Penford Reports First Quarter Fiscal 2010 Financial ResultsUnited StatesPenford Food Ingredients
1/8/2010Three potato projects receive grants in WisconsinUnited StatesMcCain Foods Limited
1/7/2010Countering lower consumption tops Potato Expo agendaUnited StatesNational Potato Council (NPC)
1/6/2010CEO Interview With ConAgra's Gary RodkinUnited StatesConagra Foods Inc.; Lamb Weston
1/6/2010McCain Foods gets $24,000 grant for retraining PEI employeesCanadaMcCain Foods Limited
1/6/2010Wal-mart cambia su sistema de compras para bajar costosUnited StatesWal-Mart Stores, Inc.
1/5/2010Hello, Mr ChipsUnited KingdomMcCain Foods Limited
1/4/2010Walmart to cut supply chain costs by buying directly from suppliers United StatesWal-Mart Stores, Inc.
12/31/2009Simplot, McDonald's Japan Recognize Top Five Washington Potato GrowersUnited StatesSimplot Foods Group; McDonalds Corporation
12/28/2009Belgian Fries conquer Abu DhabiUnited Arab Emirates
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