Potato News from Europe

Workers at the Kettle Chips factory vote today on whether to join a trade union, despite stiff opposition from their private equity bosses.Although workers in the food industry often have fewer rights than those in other industries, the Kettle Chips c...

The British Potato Council starts a new search to find the UK’s best potato dish. As part of the Great Potato Challenge 2008, they are looking for pub and restaurant chefs that can cook up an innovative and tasty potato-based main course dish It can b...

De West-Vlaamse beursgenoteerde diepvriesgroentespecialist Pinguin heeft de overname van aardappelverwerker Lutosa afgerond. Het bedrijf betaalde 175 miljoen euro voor de overname. Dankzij de overname verdubbelt Pinguin nagenoeg in omvang en wordt het ...

Wild is looking to go public - an announcement that could shake up competitors if the German flavour powerhouse capitalizes on investment and fine tunes its operations. "My main concern is to secure the future of the company, which my parents fou...

A decision by the Netherlands to put a carbon-based tax on packaging could have far reaching consequences across the EU for processors.The tax, thought to be the first in Europe, will not only mean higher costs for processors, but could be the start o...

Varios productores de patatas de Oliana, agrupados bajo la marca Trumfos del Pirineu, estudian la posiblidad de comercializar patatas preparadas para cocinar al microondas, adaptándose así a los nuevos hábitos culinarios y al ritmo de vida de los ciuda...

Staff at the Walkers factory in Coventry have helped launch the firm's first wholegrain snack, SunBites. Sunbites are manufactured exclusively at the Coventry site. Walkers has invested more than £13 million in the research and development of SunBites.

This season’s combined Fight Against Blight (FAB) and Blightwatch service has revealed unprecedented disease levels, says to the British Potato Council (BPC). There have been 301 outbreaks reported and confirmed as positive – more than twice the se...

 A snack salesman who made a living supplying pubs across Cambridgeshire says that he has been bankrupted by big business. Colin Freeman ran Packets wholesale from Breckenwood Road, Fulbourn, for 13 years, selling snacks to pubs, bars, sandwich shops a...

This local UK newspaper held a vote on the readers favorite chips flavours:   Lincolnshire's favourite flavour of crisp is - cheese and onion. The distinctive tasting treat knocked salt and vinegar into second place and the everyman crisp variety, re...

The french fry has long been one of the United Kingdom's staple foods -- almost as British as tea and scones. And, for 40 years, the U.K. has been a key market for the world's largest producer of french fries, Florenceville, N.B.-based McCain Foods L...

Bakwandenfabrikant Perfecta Nederland uit Utrecht is failliet verklaard nadat het bedrijf begin augustus surseance van betaling kreeg. De activiteiten worden door Kiremko in Woerden voortgezet onder de naam Kiremko Perfecta.   Juni dit jaar is Perfect...

Tayto general manager Paul Allen said it was delighted yesterday to reach agreement with its workforce bringing to an end the threat of strike action.The statement followed confirmation by union Unite that a ballot over a compromise pay deal had been a...

Rubbish from McDonald's fast food restaurants will be used to power hospitals and theatres in a pilot scheme to begin today. Eleven fast food restaurants in Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley, South Yorkshire, will take part in an initiative to turn w...

Walkers Crisps is the first firm to put carbon footprint figures on its products, with nine more companies set to follow. How are these figures calculated?

Royal DSM N.V. and AVEBE U.A. today announce that the business group DSM Food Specialties and AVEBE Food have entered into a strategic partnership. The combination of DSM’s enzyme expertise and AVEBE’s starch knowledge will lead to new opportunities ...

A new Walkers TV advert, part of a massive £7.5m marketing spend, is currently on air celebrating Walkers crisps 100% British-farmed status and showing Gary Lineker in a down to earth role – quite literally. Since July this year, all Walkers crisps hav...

As part of an article on "How to reinvent your brand"an example is given on "How Walkers took back lunch".   During the campaign, Walkers enjoyed an 18 per cent increase in sales. An additional 10 million bags of crisps were sold i...