Mr Tayto
六月 20, 2011

Largo Foods (Mr Tayto) announces further expansion

Snack foods maker, Largo Foods, is to invest €2.6m in the expansion of its Co Donegal facility, Ireland.
六月 20, 2011

No bumper potato crop in Ireland this year

There is unlikely to be a repeat of the bumper potato harvest last year which saw exports to Russia for the first time.
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十二月 13, 2010

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十一月 12, 2010

Ireland exports ware potatoes 'for the first time in decades'

Irish potatoes are being exported for the first time in decades following a bumper harvest here and poor growing conditions over most of Europe, the Teagasc National Potato seminar in Carlow heard yesterday.
八月 24, 2010

Rain sought by Irish potato growers to bulk crop

Potato growers are fervently hoping for some rain to bulk up the main harvest.
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六月 02, 2010

Irish Potato Farmers warned of new aggressive potato blight

Irish Scientists have warned potato farmers to be on alert for a new aggressive strain of potato blight called “Pink 6”.Stephen Kildea of Teagasc, the agriculture and food development authority, said the new strain could not be properly controlled by s...
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六月 02, 2010

Largo Foods takes on extra workers

Largo Foods in Ashbourne (Ireland) has taken on a further 36 workers at its Kilbrew plant and expects to create up to another 80 jobs by next summer with its new 'Tayto Fun Park'.The manufacturers of Tayto and Hunky Dory crisps have reported an 11 per ...
二月 03, 2010

Compensation deal agreed for Irish potato farmers hit by cold snap

A compensation package was tonight revealed for farmers whose crops were damaged during the cold snap.Agriculture Minister Brendan Smith said potato and vegetable growers who suffered significant losses because of frost in January could recoup some fu...
一月 05, 2010

Irish Potato Farmers are facing ruin

Irish potato farmers are facing ruin because of the freezing conditions which have followed the heavy rain in November, the Irish Farmers’ Association has claimed.The IFA estimates that 20 per cent of last year’s potato crop will not be recovered, lead...
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十二月 28, 2009

Tayto: Mr Tayto's autobiography 'cutting edge 21st century marketing communications'

Iconic Irish potato chips [crisps] brand Tayto exemplifies the problems encountered by local brands in a globalised world. Savaged by rapacious retailers on the one side it is under relentless assault from multinational brands with far greater resourc...
 Tayto
十二月 09, 2009

Potato chips (crisps) manufacturer Largo set for profit despite flat sales

Irish Crisp maker  Largo Foods expects to make a net profit this year in spite of sales in Ireland of its leading snackfood brands – Tayto, King and Hunky Dorys – remaining flat at about €76 million.“Our sales are up 27 per cent in the North, but in th...
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七月 28, 2009

New Aggressive strain of potato blight is proving difficult to control

Controlling blight is of paramount importance to all potato growers, whether big or small. Research over the past two years by Dr Stephen Kildea and others in Teagasc Oak Park has shown the type of blight Ireland is getting now is changing compared t...

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七月 16, 2009

What's in potato peels?

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Angry Irish potato farmers storm Tesco Managers meeting

Tesco last night insisted it was the world's "biggest supporter"of Irish food and drink producers after a group of farmers stormed a meeting of the supermarket chain's top managers yesterday.Around 30 potato growers burst into a meeting at a ...
二月 19, 2009

Selenium enriched potato launched

Peter Keogh &Sons, the potato-growing and packing company owned by the north County Dublin Keogh family, has launched a selenium-enriched Rooster potato called Selena, which is currently available exclusively in Superquinn stores in Ireland.The Sel...
一月 04, 2009

Irish Researchers at Teagasc think GM potatoes may provide answer to blight fears

A genetically modified variety of spud may have to be produced in Irish laboratories because of the growing threat from blight. The fungal disease that wiped out the potato crop in the mid-19th century, causing more than 1m deaths, is posing a renewed ...
八月 26, 2008

Ireland's potatoes 'rotting in the fields'

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