Potato News

Kettle Foods is spicing up the summer with the arrival of its newest Kettle(TM) brand Potato Chip, Death Valley Chipotle(TM), just in time for barbeque season. The winner of the fourth annual People's Choice campaign, Death Valley Chipotle(TM), is set ...

Brazil Fast Food , a 580-outlet fast-food chain (Bob's) and the second largest hamburger fast-food chain operator in Brazil, announced financial results for its fourth quarter and year ended Dec. 31, 2007.   Leveraging their branding and operational ex...

Economic woes and environmental issues have received extensive attention from the Japanese food industry and media again. Many Japanese marketers are taking advantage of this situation as well as the strong yen to market their products. In this month's...

On April 8, 2008, Shearer’s Foods, Inc. officially announced their plans to build the first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) Gold Certified food manufacturing plant in the State of Ohio. Chief Executive Officer Bob Shearer and the Sh...

French-fries manufacturer Cavendish Farms and The Culinary Institute of Canada are teaming up to build a new research kitchen in Charlottetown. The $4-million kitchen will use the culinary resources of the institute and the market expertise of Cavendi...

As the price of fossil fuels and commodities like grain climb, nutritionally questionable, high-profit ingredients like high-fructose corn syrup will, too. As a result, Cokes are likely to get smaller and cost more. Then, the argument goes, fewer peopl...

Farmers in the US are expected to plant significantly fewer corn crops than last year, pushing the price up to a record high of $6 a bushel, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) warned last week.The news indicates even more pressure on food manufact...

McCain Foods officials are searching for the cause of a partial roof collapse at the Florenceville plant over the weekend. On Saturday afternoon, the roof over a cold storage unit at the plant crumbled into the facility, said Calla Farn, McCains' dir...

Potatoes, and ingredients derived from the crop, are set to experience growing demand as cereal prices continue to soar. A spokesman at starch producer Avebe said both cereal and potato-based starches have become more expensive. "The rising cereal...

Last week we paid attention in the PotatoPro Newsletter to metal detection. This news reminds us of the importance:    Terri, aged 18, found the two inch shard cooked inside a crisp in a bag of Roysters she had just opened for her three-year-old brothe...

Balaji Wafers Pvt Ltd, a Rajkot-based company, is planning to double its production capacity. The company is setting up a wafers processing unit on over 35 acres in Valsad in south Gujarat with an investment of Rs 100 crore.  The company enjoys a 70 pe...

De leegstaande oude fabriek van Aviko in Hoog-Keppel is door brand volledig verwoest. Alleen de muren van het pand staan nog overeind. Vorig jaar namen krakers bezit van de leegstaande panden.   Aviko begon haar activiteiten in Hoog-Keppel in 1962. D...

One year after joining Legris Industries Group, Clextral announces the acquisition of Danish company K.A.L. ProcesTeknik A/S (Gadstrup,Copenhagen region), specialized in refurbishing extruder screws.

An 11-year-old girl with a wheat allergy has been banned from eating special low fat chips at school - because they are not healthy enough. She was told by teachers she could not eat the lunchtime snack because they are not allowed under the school's...

At a time when many large restaurant chains are struggling, Burger King Holdings Inc. CEO John Chidsey has managed to sustain the once-foundering fast-food company's turnaround. The world's No. 2 hamburger chain by locations behind McDonald's Corp. is ...

The Rs 2000-crore SPS Group, with interests in steel, hotels and biscuits among other things, has taken over a potato flakes project set up by Apurba Saha's Pailan group, another diversified outfit that is into education, aviation, township developmen...

McDonald's recorded 12 per cent growth in the Middle East in 2007 compared with just six per cent globally, a senior manager has revealed. And now the US-based fast-food giant plans to increase the number of outlets in the UAE from 52 to 100 in the ne...

According to a public opinion survey commissioned by the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD), 82 percent of Americans think food companies should be making a greater effort to reformulate for more better-for-you products.Although this is a high perc...