News On French Fries and Potato Specialties

Restaurant chains that serve more lower-calorie foods and beverages have better business performance, according to a study by Hudson Institute.

Idaho potato growers at a Monday meeting in Burley approved processing contracts with J.R. Simplot and McCain Foods that both include payment increases averaging 1.6 percent.

El gobernador de la provincia participó junto al rector de la Universidad Nacional de La Rioja (UNLaR) de la inauguración de la Unidad Didáctico Productiva de Procesamientos Aplicativos en Tubérculos, cuya marca Solar comenzó con la producción a pequeñ...

Fast Food chain McDonald's France has promised to serve "100% French"French Fries before the end of the year in all its 1260 restaurants.

Idaho potato growers will vote Monday in Burley on contracts with McCain Foods and J.R. Simplot Co. paying a 1.6 percent average increase, according to sources involved in negotiations.

The Australian Food and Grocery Council (AFGC) Board has elected a new chair. Terry O’Brien, Managing Director of Simplot Australia, has been elected by the Board following the resignation of John Doumani.

The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) today announced the election of three officers and seven members to the AFFI Board of Directors.

El proteccionismo francés llega a las mesas del Mcdonald's. De aquí a noviembre de este año en los McDonald's del país sólo se comerán french fries. Nada de patatas fritas a base de tubérculos belgas, como servían ahora algunos de sus restaurantes.

At Ecofrost in Belgium, a new potato specialities line was commissioned last spring. The line is used to produce formed potato croquettes and pommes noisettes. Raw materials for these products are the rejects and the nubbin waste from the Kiremko Frenc...

French fry manufacturer McCain has worked with design agency BrandOpus to overhaul its entire product portfolio in the United Kingdom. The overhaul includes the introduction of an entirely new logo for the brand, the first such change in over 50 years.

La fabricante de papas congeladas reorganizó sus negocios en el Mercosur luego de haber sufrido, en 2012, problemas para vender su producción en el país vecino.

McCain Foods Limited, propietaria de los negocios de McCain en Sudamérica, desmintió de manera tajante los rumores que señalan que la compañía se irá de la Argentina.

Cosun (parent of Aviko) can report an excellent financial result for 2012, with all business activities making a positive contribution. The result is the fruit of the strategic choices taken and consistently implemented in recent years. High sugar pric...

Key Technology unveils its new Product Definer, a state-of-the-art instrument, located in its customer visitor center. This proprietary hyperspectral imaging spectrometer helps Key quickly analyze and evaluate new applications and technologies.

Oregon Governor Kitzhaber praised ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston’s estimated $200 million expansion plan, adding a new line to its Boardman plant to increase its capacity for making french fries and other frozen potato products.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and private equity firm 3G Capital will buy ketchup and baby food maker H.J. Heinz Co for $23.2 billion in cash, a deal that combines 3G's ambitions in the food industry with Buffett's hunt for growth.

On 28 January a cloud of Nitric acid escaped from the chemical plant of Emsland-Stärke GmbH, Emlichheim, Germany.

La marca de patatas fritas McCain, ha trabajado con la agencia BrandOpus para llevar a cabo un rediseño de todo su sistema de identidad, lo que incluye un cambio de logotipo, el primer cambio que lleva a cabo la marca en 50 años.