Potato News from the United States

While industries such as retail, manufacturing, and financial services have cut tens of thousands of jobs, the foodservice sector continues to beef up payrolls, with 65 percent of fast food restaurants reporting an increase in employment levels at bot...

Tyrrell's Potato Chips knows its potato supplier intimately. In fact, the British company knows everything about the potatoes it uses, all the way from seed to chip. That's because Tyrrells started as a potato farm, and when price pressures became too ...

Burger King Corp on Tuesday named Armando Jacomino as president of the Latin America region, replacing Julio Ramirez, who was promoted to executive vice president, global operations.

Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) today reported strong first quarter earnings, boosted by higher selling prices for its products, including sweeteners and starches.The agricultural and ingredients firm has posted net earnings for the quarter ended Septembe...

Burger King Holdings will show its first net restaurant gains in the US and Canada in six years in 2008, executives said at the company’s first quarter conference call. The company also says it plans an expansion of a net increase of 300 units worldwid...

Fast-food chain Burger King Corp. said Monday its fiscal first-quarter earnings rose 23 percent, beating Wall Street expectations, helped by "Simpsons"and "Transformers"marketing promotions and sales of the Tendercrisp and Spicy Ch...

The world's third-largest retailer, has begun its long-awaited launch in the United States, opening its first store near Los Angeles. Britain's most successful retailer opened its Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market in the small city of Hemet late last week.

Burger King Holdings Inc. said Monday its first-quarter earnings rose 23 percent, but shares of the world's second largest hamburger chain fell more than 6 percent as three big shareholders disclosed plans to sell about a third of their holdings.

La cadena estadounidense de restaurantes Burger King Holdings Inc reportó el lunes un aumento mayor al esperado en su utilidad del primer trimestre fiscal, gracias a sus nuevos sándwiches de pollo y sus promociones de las películas "The Simpsons&...

Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner today announced that USDA provided more than $234 million to help market American farm products overseas in the 2007 fiscal year that ended Sept 30.   The allocations were provided under the Market Access Progr...

PepsiCo announced today a strategic realignment of its organizational structure to position the company for continued strong growth and more fully leverage the talents of its senior leaders. "Given PepsiCo's robust growth in recent years, we are ...

In 2003 and 2004, the fast-food giant ranked No. 1 in Fortune Magazine's listing of "Top 50 Companies for Diversity."In 2006 and 2007, Latina Style magazine called McDonald's "Number One Company for Latinas to Work." Ralph Alvarez,...

Lance, a marketer of snack food products, has reported a 5% increase in net revenue to $198.1 million for the third quarter ended September 29, 2007, compared with $188.6 million for the same period in the previous year.

The top claims for new Food products in the period July- August 2007 compared to the same period last year:     Claim July-August 2006 July - August 2007 Change Upscale 11.0% 13.5% + 2.5% Natural 8.2% 9.3% + 1.1% Organic 5.5% 7.0% ...

For years potato chip manufacturers like Lay's, Wise, Utz and others were content to churn out POPC -- plain old potato chips -- leaving the "gourmet"market to niche manufacturers. But then diversification hit the potato chip industry, offeri...

After years of losses, it seemed Ubiquity subsidiary Jays Foods Inc., was poised to at least break even, and possibly even turn a modest profit. In the first six months of this year, losses were cut 50 percent compared with the losses in the first h...

Potential buyers for Wendy's International Inc. (WEN) have a Nov. 12 deadline to submit bids for the hamburger chain, but a shaky financing package assembled by Wendy's banks could throw a wrench in the auction and lead to lower offers. Wendy's lende...

Popcorn Workers Lung victims involved in a class action lawsuit got some good news from a New York appeals court yesterday. The court ruled that if the former Missouri popcorn plant workers successfully prove their claims that diacetyl exposure cause...