News On French Fries and Potato Specialties

A delay in a $100 million expansion project for McCain Foods USA in Burley, Idaho has area potato growers worried about the status of their contracts to sell produce to the company.

McCain Foods Limited announced today the appointment of Jeff DeLapp as President, North America, effective June 2, 2014.

Simplot's Safety Days initiative was recently recognized by McDonald’s Corporation as demonstrating best practices in the “Community Impact” section of the company’s Sustainable Supply awards.

McCain Foods still hasn’t settled on the volume of potatoes it wants Manitoba processing potato growers to produce this year, even though planting is just weeks away.

Everyone knows that burgers and fries are best friends, making it an easy decision for the Prince Edward Island Potato Board to be a partner in the 2014 edition of PEI Burger Love (www.peiburgerlove.ca).

McCain Foods has signed a new £8m sponsorship deal with British ITV show ‘Emmerdale’, which will run for two years starting this April.

Cavendish Farms potato farming operations in Presque Isle, Maine are being suspended indefinitely.

El combinado industrial de cítricos y frutales de Ceballos, en Ciego de Ávila, cubre de nuevo la demanda de papa prefrita para el mercado especializado de frontera, un alimento que sustituye importaciones.

ConAgra Foods, Inc. announced the winners of its 2014 Sustainable Development Awards yesterday, an internal awards program that drives and rewards imaginative approaches to sustainability, and produces bottom line business results.

VION and H2 Equity Partners have announced that they have entered into an agreement for the intended sale of Oerlemans Foods to investment company H2 Equity Partners.

VION en H2 Equity Partners hebben bekend gemaakt dat ze een overeenkomst zijn aangegaan voor de voorgenomen verkoop van Oerlemans Foods aan investeringsmaatschappij H2 Equity Partners.

Manitoba potato farmers could face steeper cuts in contracted potato production unless they can become more cost competitive with other areas of North America, a senior official with McCain Foods says.

Los gigantes internacionales Mc Cain y Farm Frites ya no estarán solos en el mercado argentino. La estadounidense Simplot se transformará en un nuevo jugador en un sector que moviliza 55.000 toneladas anuales de papas fritas precongeladas.

Idaho potato farmers who sell to McCain Foods have agreed to a contract that maintains roughly the same pricing as last season, said Dan Hargraves, who negotiated on their behalf as executive director of Southern Idaho Potato Cooperative.

Farm Frites' new Patatas Bravas, delicious potato cubes which can be topped with everything from spicy chorizo to seasonings, answer demand for Mediterranean cuisine.

Burger King Worldwide, Inc. announces that it is making SATISFRIES™ French fries the standard fry in the BURGER KING® Kid’s Meal.

Lamb Weston / Meijer, manufacturer of deep-frozen potato products and dried potato flakes, is investing 20 million euros in its biggest plant in Kruiningen, Zeeland (NL). A fully-automated potato sorting process is being implemented in a new, state-of-the-art potato grading area.

Lamb Weston / Meijer, producent van diepgevroren aardappelproducten en gedroogde aardappelvlokken, investeert 20 miljoen euro in haar grootste fabriek in het Zeeuwse Kruiningen. In een nieuwe, state-of-the-art aardappelontvangst- en sorteerruimte wordt een volledig geautomatiseerd aardappelsorteerproces geïmplementeerd.