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Sales for the three months ended January 30, 2008 increased $316 million, or 13.8%, to $2.61 billion, with growth in all five business segments. Volume increased 5.2%, driven by a 9.8% volume increase in Asia/Pacific, combined with solid growth in Euro...

Restaurants in Europe, the United States and Japan are testing technology to let diners order their food direct from a screen at their table instead of depending on a fellow human being to note their choice. Besides cutting costs, companies that sell ...

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) announced today that it has acquired Kennewick, Wash.-based Watts Brothers, a privately held vegetable processing and agricultural company, to further grow and strengthen its core potato business operating under the Lam...

Lawyers for Burger King failed to have a lawsuit over the company’s use of artificial trans fat dismissed. The Center for Science in the Public Interest sued the chain in May 2007 because it is the only one of the three top burger chains not to promise...

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.

NutraCea is to enter the lucrative edible oil market, following the completion of its purchase of South America's largest rice bran oil processing facility. The firm, which has so far focused its activities on stabilized rice bran, said it will now sta...

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 ...

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...

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada has unveiled a new crop of experimental potato varieties, but it will be years before any find their way to your supper table. The new varieties were actually created six years ago, but only now have they gone through e...

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...

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.

Demand for specialty potatoes, with multi-hued skin and flesh, is booming.Potato expert Eugenia Banks' cache is nestled in white paper bags piled on pallets lined against the walls. Inside are prized potatoes: River John Blues and Purple Majesties, Win...

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) today announced simple and unique packaging enhancements designed to help consumers make better-informed food choices to improve their diet and health. The new nutrition guide, designed by ConAgra Foods, will be feature...

The Inventure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNAK) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 29, 2007. Fourth Quarter: Net Revenues for the Fourth Quarter ended December 29, 2007 were $25.6 million, up 58.7% comp...

Soft drink and snack maker PepsiCo Inc plans to raise prices and reduce the size of some products this year to offset soaring commodity costs, but does not expect these measures to significantly hurt sales volume, a senior executive said on Wednesday. ...

Wendy's International Inc is aiming to roll out inexpensive sandwich wraps and a new hamburger to increase sales as the U.S. economy weakens, Chief Executive Kerrii Anderson said on Tuesday. "The consumer environment from a year ago has changed d...

Fall potato stocks in Michigan on Feb. 1 were estimated at 6.2 million hundredweight (cwt), according to the USDA, NASS, Michigan Field Office. February's stocks represent 42% of the total production, up 35% from last year's 4.6 million cwt. Stocks by ...

Key Technology announces the promotion of Tim Reardon to the new position of Potato Industry Marketing Manager. Reardon is responsible for planning and managing activities that enable potato processors worldwide to experience the greatest value in util...