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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...

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...

McCain has launched an exciting new re-brand campaign for its best-tasting Home Fries product, to celebrate its rightful positioning as 'Chips as chips should be'. The Home Fries re-brand will build upon McCain’s long-running, ‘It’s All Good’ campaign,...

The J. R. Simplot Company is transferring its vegetable processing plant in Pasco, Wash., to a new manufacturing joint venture to be managed and co-owned by Washington Potato Company. Washington Potato Company (WPC) will run the plant and continue to p...

McCain Foods (Canada) is pleased to have been recognized as one of Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies for 2007.The national award, sponsored by Deloitte, CIBC Commercial Banking and the National Post, recognizes excellence in Canadian owned and managed...

Shares of Burger King Corp. rose for a second day Friday, after the nation's No. 2 burger chain reported growth in quarterly profit in the face of a difficult consumer environment that slowed sales at its biggest rival, McDonald's. On Thursday, Burger ...

With breakfast sales growing three times faster than any other daypart and the demand for grab-and-go foods rapidly increasing, McCain Foods USA is excited to introduce new Early Risers hot, handheld breakfasts. Early Risers portable breakfasts are a d...

Key Technology introduces new OPC-compliant network communication software for all G6 optical sorters and automatic defect removal (ADR®) systems. The new software allows the G6 systems to easily interface with plant networks, extending machine monito...

As part of its continuing strategy to develop new market opportunities for US potatoes, the United States Potato Board (USPB) has initiated a frozen potato program in Central America. Countries to be targeted include Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, N...

Staff of a Denver-area organization supposedly brokering a deal to set up an organic potato processing facility in Center were reluctant to release information locally about the proposal but told residents of Grand Forks, North Dakota, they might have ...

The Tater Tot held its debutante ball, fittingly, at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. The swooping post-modern structure had itself just debuted in 1954, signaling the country's interest in new forms, new conveniences, new luxuries — all finan...

ConAgra Foods Inc. won't close three production plants that had been slated for shutdown in a multiyear reorganization effort, signaling a shift in emphasis from cutting costs to growing sales. "We've had good success with sales of new products, a...

The Heinz Global Innovation and Quality Center, which opened about two years ago, has significantly bolstered the research and development capabilities of Heinz, one of the world's largest food companies. Like other big food industry players, Heinz ha...

Boise-based J.R. Simplot Co. has purchased H &R Ag Inc., a Pasco-based agriculture supplier and retail business. No financial details of Monday's deal were disclosed. But Bill Whitacre, president of the Simplot AgriBusiness Group, said the acquisi...

Using the asparaginase enzyme to treat French fries could reduce the formation of acrylamide by 60 per cent, a joint Chilean-Danish study has reported. The study, published on-line in the journal Food Chemistry, weighs into the hot topic of acrylamide ...

Una de las más grandes industrias procesadora de papas, McCain Foods Ltd de Canadá, podría construir una planta en Washington, para lo que destinaría aproximadamente 150 millones de dólares, destacó Puget Sound Business Journal.

French fry giant McCain Foods will forever be associated with the founding - sometimes feuding - New Brunswick brothers, Wallace and the late Harrison McCain. But the CEO these days is a straight-talking North Dakotan, Dale Morrison, who came to McCain...

The Day &Ross Transportation Group, a wholly-owned division of McCain Foods Limited, announced today the signing of an Asset Purchase Agreement for the acquisition of Wesbell Logistics Services, a division of The Wesbell Group of Companies Inc.