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Reuters reports that private equity firms Blackstone Group LP (BX.N) and PAI Partners are considering selling Britain's United Biscuits for more than 2 billion pounds ($3.06 billion). Reuters refers to a person familiar with the matter.   Blackstone an...

After last weeks speculations in the UK media on what would happen to the Food Standards Agency, the United Kingdom's food safety watchdog, here is the REAL plan, outlined in a press release by the Food Standards Agency, the Department of Health and th...

Asda (United Kingdom)has withdrawn some of its own-brand Salt &Vinegar, Variety and Boxed Crisps, because the salt and vinegar flavouring used in the crisps contains trace amounts of wheat gluten. This means the products, which are available in var...

Issues surrounding potato storage such as efficiency will be one of the many topics on the agenda at the Storage Event to be held at Sutton Bridge Crop Storage Research in Lincolnshire on 2 September.Professor Gareth Edwards-Jones from Bangor Universit...

Potato growers gathered together for an update on the latest legislative, technical and environmental issues facing their sector at the East Midlands Potato Day held near Spalding in Lincolnshire.

Two of the industry´s leading processing equipment suppliers – Tummers Methodic, located in the Netherlands and Rosenqvists Food Technologies, located in Sweden are joining forces.

Het prijsinformatiesysteem voor aardappelen van de Verenigde Telers Akkerbouw (VTA) werkt in deze snel stijgende aardappelmarkt voortreffelijk. Dit informatiesysteem wordt gevoed door de aardappeltelers zelf. Verkoopt een teler die lid is van VTA een p...

Op basis van de verzamelaanvragen 2010 ingediend bij het Agentschap voor Landbouw en Visserij blijkt dat het areaal consumptieaardappelen in Vlaanderen dit jaar zou uitkomen op 42.079 ha, of 6,66% meer dan in 2009.De areaalstijging bevestigt de resulta...

De nieuwe patatjes worden duur. Op de veiling worden voor machinegerooide vroege aardappelen nu prijzen betaald van 19,50 euro tot 23 euro plus btw voor 100 kg. Vorig jaar ging hetzelfde pakket nog van de hand voor 9 euro. Door het koude voorjaar en de...

Walkers, the UK’s No. 1 crisps and snacks manufacturer, has announced English Roast Beef &Yorkshire Pudding as the winner of its Walkers Flavour Cup campaign, the world’s first ever ‘crisp tournament’. The Sunday lunch flavour gained more than  ...

Een prijsstijging van diepvriesfrites is onvermijdelijk, gezien de achterstand die aardappelplanten door de droogte hebben opgelopen ten opzichte van voorgaande jaren.Dat zeggen fritesfabrikanten. De stijgende aardappelprijs heeft direct impact op de f...

Stories circulated yesterday reported that Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, would be announcing the break up of the Food Standards Agency.  They also suggested that this break up was an indication that the Government had ‘caved in’ to the pressure of...

World Potato Congress Inc (WPC Inc) President, Allan Parker and Potato Council Chairman Allan Stevenson, announced today that Edinburgh has been selected as the site of the 8th International World Potato Congress to be held in May 2012.It is the first ...

Voor het eerst worden er aardappelen uit zilte grond geoogst. Dit gebeurt vrijdag op het Texelse Den Hoorn.Aardappelteeltbedrijven Biemond en Fobek uit Sint Annaparochie rooien de aardappelen samen met Arjen de Vos van de Vrije Universiteit van Amsterd...

KMC's board of directors announced today that Michael Jensen, CEO has resigned his position with immediate effect.A resignation agreement has therefore been made and part of this agreement is that neither party states the reasons for termination of the...

Heavy rainfall at the start of the second week of July has benefited parts of Northern European, where the dry conditions are affecting the whole European potato industry. Most areas have crops two weeks behind last year. New crop tuber size and yields...

Potatoes have been the centre of classroom activity as thousands of Earlies, grown as part of the Potato Council ‘Grow Your Own Potatoes’ project, have been unearthed.Nearly half a million pupils have had a hand in growing their own potatoes this year ...

The promotion of fresh potatoes in the UK is to be boosted by additional funding from the European Union.   This follows an application for co-financing of a European programme for the promotion of fresh potatoes, made jointly by the UK, France and Bel...