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As the price of fossil fuels and commodities like grain climb, nutritionally questionable, high-profit ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup will, too. As a result, Cokes are likely to get smaller and cost more. Then, the argument goes, fewer peopl...

Farmers in the US are expected to plant significantly fewer corn crops than last year, pushing the price up to a record high of $6 a bushel, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) warned last week.The news indicates even more pressure on food manufact...

McCain Foods officials are searching for the cause of a partial roof collapse at the Florenceville plant over the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, the roof over a cold storage unit at the plant crumbled into the facility, said Calla Farn, McCains' dir...

Potatoes, and ingredients derived from the crop, are set to experience growing demand as cereal prices continue to soar. A spokesman at starch producer Avebe said both cereal and potato-based starches have become more expensive. "The rising cereal...

At a time when many large restaurant chains are struggling, Burger King Holdings Inc. CEO John Chidsey has managed to sustain the once-foundering fast-food company's turnaround. The world's No. 2 hamburger chain by locations behind McDonald's Corp. is ...

La multinacional de comidas rápidas espera que en 2008 se puede dar un crecimiento de entre 35 y 40 por ciento, una previsión posible dado lo que ha ocurrido entre enero y marzo. Ese comportamiento del negocio estimula el plan de aperturas y remodelaci...

The Idaho Potato Commission (IPC) today launched the iTuber Take II video contest on the popular website, YouTube, inviting spud lovers from across the country to work their magic in front of the camera with America's favorite vegetable: the Idaho Pot...

Wendy's International Inc named Steve Farrar to the new position of chief of North America operations, effective April 14. The hamburger chain said Farrar will be responsible for improving operations at company and franchise restaurants in the United...

According to a public opinion survey commissioned by the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), 82 percent of Americans think food companies should be making a greater effort to reformulate for more better-for-you products.Although this is a high perc...

McDonald's Corp. has set out to dispel some myths about ingredients and preparation as part of a yearlong food-credibility campaign"We've been hearing over the years that consumers have some misperceptions about the quality of our food at McDonal...

Hamburger chain Wendy's International (NYSE:WEN) Inc. said Thursday its first-quarter same-store sales declined, partly hurt by a shift in the Easter holiday.Same-store sales at U.S. company restaurants slipped 1.6 percent compared with a 3.8 percent r...

ConAgra Foods Inc. bought Watts Brothers, a private vegetable-processing and agricultural company, for about $132 million in cash and assumed liabilities. In a filing Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission, ConAgra said that the assumed ...

Sierra Exportadora logró obtener una de las harinas de papa más baratas del mundo, utilizando como insumo la papa nacional de segunda y de descarte, así lo informó el presidente ejecutivo de Sierra Exportadora Gastón Benza Pflucker, durante la presenta...

Four months after potato growers in the Red River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota agreed to join Salt Lake City-based United Potato Growers of America, that membership could be in jeopardy, adding another chapter to an on-again/off-again relations...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service has established a new destination inspection process for Canadian potatoes entering the U.S., as part of a new trade agreement between the two countries.The objective of this process i...

Las principales cadenas del país ya sufren la falta de carne. Algunas debieron trasladar estos problemas a los precios. Las fábricas de papas fritas se vieron obligadas a cerrar momentáneamente   En el caso de Mc Donald’s, los mayores costos generados ...

A new study suggests that the relative size of starch granules used in a blend could determine overall gelation behaviour and whether or not the starch components add to each others' properties or interact to deliver new ones. Starches have widespread ...

Mc Cain Argentina, con sede en Balcarce, emitió un comunicado. Suspensión de personal.   Balcarce, 30 de Marzo de 2008    A la Comunidad de Balcarce     Cómo empresa integrante de ésta comunidad, esperamos que el Gobierno Nacional y El Campo Argentin...