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The U.S. Potato Board recently wrapped a week-long course called "Processed Potatoes 101"for business representatives from more than 14 countries.The gathering, which took place in Pasco, Wash., was the largest the board ever put together. Th...

Could specialty potato chips—with roots in Ladner—snag the interest of wealthy Canadian business moguls? Sepp Amsler was willing to find out—amid the glare of national television. He pitched his Maple Ridge-based business, Hardbite Potato Chips, to a...

En momentos en que los consumidores estadounidenses salen menos a comer ante la desaceleración económica, el negocio de la cadena de restaurantes McDonald's ha crecido con mayor rapidez que el de sus rivales, apoyado por la venta de nuevos sándwiches y...

Heavy demand for corn from ethanol makers was seen as a key driver of corn futures to record highs in June, but since then the sharp decline of corn along with other commodities shows that belief was mistaken.Corn is down about 50 percent from its reco...

With the rapidly approaching presidential election compelling the public's attention and dominating social and other media, a line of red, white and blue snacking chips would seem to be well-positioned to ride the wave. This point has not been lost on ...

Productivity improvements and energy efficiency schemes will constitute the majority of new projects next year in the US food and beverage manufacturing sector, claims a report from a US market analysis firm. Industrial Info Resources predicts a scale ...

McCain Foods is axing 25 jobs in New Brunswick as part of a move to outsource accounting functions to India. The head of McCain Foods (Canada) says the outsourcing of the jobs is part of the company's efforts to become more competitive globally. The ...

McDonald's Corporation today announced strong operating results for the third quarter, driven by global comparable sales growth of 7.1%."The strength of McDonald's ongoing results is a testament to our multi-dimensional Plan to Win, which features...

The Inventure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNAK) today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 27, 2008. Net revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2008 were $29.8 million, representing an increase of 17.5% compared to the third quart...

The global downturn is pushing consumers to Burger King's  stores in search of cheaper dining, but the company is worried that a prolonged credit crunch could hurt its franchisees' borrowing ability. "In the short run, we've been somewhat of a ben...

Keystone Potato Products is committed to sustainability: In 2000, co-op members began looking at building a dehydrated potato processing facility in Pennsylvania – which would be the first dehy plant on the East Coast. A local plant would provide a ma...

So here it is, a PotatoPro Newsletter on 'McDonald's World Famous Fries' or MacFries as I will keep calling them in short. Yes, as far as I could figure out they were called MacFries, not McFries, even though Google gives more than twice as much hits on McFries than MacFries.

In a recently-completed survey of consumers, Chicago-based foodservice consultants Technomic, Inc. found that the financial market meltdown is likely to cause a high number (74 percent) of consumers to visit both quick- and full-service restaurants les...

The typical Western diet — fried foods, salty snacks and meat — accounts for about 30 percent of heart attack risk across the world, according to a study of dietary patterns in 52 countries reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Associ...

Food makers confronted by today's challenging economic times must continue to invest hard in innovation to beat the downturn. This year's SIAL, which opened yesterday in Paris, is a showcase of new ideas that could help to boost margins and weather the...

Worries about a global recession have pushed the price of oil to its lowest in over a year. Don't expect the same for a bottle of beer, a tube of toothpaste, or a box of cereal. You can blame "sticky"prices. That's what analysts call it when...

PepsiCo Inc. will locate a 4,000-square-foot lab at the David H. Murdock Core Laboratory Building in four to five months. Mehmood Khan, PepsiCo chief scientific officer, described the plans as a major investment but didn’t immediately specify how many ...

With the economy in a slide, US fast-food restaurants are rolling out big discounts and heavily promoting value, making this a golden time for diners on the run.Fast food is the part of the restaurant business that usually holds up best when the econom...