News On French Fries and Potato Specialties from Europe

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Chip Week has become one of the biggest awareness weeks in the calendar, but, as important as it is, it is still only one aspect of the work that Potato Council does to support the sector.

Profits have fallen by more than £10m at McCain Foods GB after Britain's market-leading frozen chip maker was hit by a severe shortage of quality potatoes in the UK as a direct result of the extreme weather conditions in the 2012 growing season.

There's nothing quite like the mouth-watering taste and smell of an oven-baked jacket potato, so McCain has specially designed a 'Jacket Taxi' which did just that.

Bannisters’ Farm continues to innovate in the frozen food category with the addition of two new product ranges: Fully Loaded Jackets and Farmer’s Roasting Potatoes.

Breeders Trust, an organisation set up by seed potato companies to enforce proper contributions by farmers for use of proprietary potato varieties, has sued two Belgian Farmers for infraction of breeders rights of potato varieties.

McCain Foods is set to launch new McCain Waffles as part of its £35m drive to deliver brand and category growth, by appealing to a broader age range of children who may have outgrown its McCain Smiles product.

Mydibel has existed for 25 years as of 2013 and they are not letting this go by unnoticed. The site in Moeskroen has changed into a striking eye-catcher.

Over the next 5 years, northwest European potato prices are expected to gradually climb and elevated price volatility set to persist, according to a new report by Rabobank.

The potato and potato processing industry is changing and Tummers is taking the lead in offering solutions in response. Up to now at most factories the potatoes have been unloaded at high capacity from the lorry, then sorted by size and stored in bunkers unwashed.

Branston and Tesco are offering consumers the opportunity to have their moment of fame with their new ‘Pic on a Pack' initiative. Customers have at chance to have their photo featured on packs of freshly prepared Parmentier potatoes.

As of early August, the Dutch airline Corendon is serving french fries during all its flights.

Guy Huybrechts will become the new CEO of the Dutch Potato Processor Farm Frites. In September he will succeed the current managing director, Danny Dresselaerts.

McCain Foods is set to unveil its new Happy Days campaign on 2 September, featuring outdoor, press, TV, cinema and in-store activity, along with a 3.7 million household door drop.

The potato processing companies in the Netherlands have used significantly less potatoes in the month of July.

Dutch Potato Processing Company Aviko is looking into expansion of processing capacity for french fries in Belgium, report several news sources in the country.

Potato processor McCain has contracted Soltens to remove and recycle by-products from its Scarborough french fry factory.

Insort and EVK have signed a worldwide license agreement with Key Technology for use of Chemical Imaging Technology in proven Key solutions provided to the potato industry.