From our humble beginnings in the rural community of Florenceville, Canada, McCain Foods is now a global business! Whilst still based in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada, since we have expanded to become a truly global company.
Our significant network of global and local market teams around the world are supported by our corporate head office based in the heart of Toronto, Canada. French fries As well as our "McCain" brand, well-known for delicious French fries, McCain Foods Limited is comprised of a range of companies which operate within the prepared potato and appetizer segments, potato seed cultivation, transportation and more.
McCain Foods - Specializes in a wide variety of prepared potato products and appetizers, operating within both the foodservice and retail channels. Van Geloven - Supplies a wide range of frozen convenience snacks and foods across a variety of customer channels. Contact Us. Locations in the USA In the United States, the company has eleven production facilities and approximately 3, employees.
Career Opportunities Our products are only as good as the people who put them out there. See Available Opportunities. Good Business From the start, the McCain brothers had a simple belief: good ethics is good business. It's All About the Food Like you, our chefs make great-tasting, on-trend food their mission.
Chef's Favorite Recipes. Chef's favorite recipes. Space-aged technology influenced the modern household. Frozen vegetables, canned soups, instant breakfast drinks, and ready-made meal options with their efficiency and modern panache held wide consumer appeal. In a few short years steady growth led to expanded market options and the Canadian company looked to its British allies overseas to buy its products.
McCain's "chips" gained a foothold in the United Kingdom in The British campaign was accompanied by a quirky advertising plan that made McCain fries a household name.
By the company was ready to expand to another English-speaking member of the commonwealth and McCain Foods set its sites down under on Australia. McCain Foods forged its way south in when it entered the U. The s brought about significant changes in the American workplace and record numbers of women went to work outside the home for the first time.
Convenience foods were not only sought after for their modern appeal but for their time-saving functions as well. McCain was well poised and capitalized on this newly emerging market. Continuing to grow in the southern hemisphere in McCain Foods acquired an existing French fry processing plant in Doylesfood, Australia.
The newly acquired plant allowed the company to produce and sell its product without overseas shipping. Demand in Britain led the company to double the capacity of its operation in Scarborough and growth in its European sector brought company leaders to the Netherlands soon after. Belgium, France, and the Netherlands had long established themselves as countries where "Frites" were traditional foods. Fried potato stands were a common sight throughout Belgian city streets where tourists and locals could purchase paper cones full of crisp fries smothered in mayonnaise.
Within two years, from to , McCain Foods added to its holdings and purchased plants in Werkendam and Lewedorp, the Netherlands. Expansion and acquisition trends continued throughout the decade. In McCain bought a Washburn, Maine potato processing plant; a year later it purchased another U. A third Dutch facility would follow in , this time in the town of Hooffddorys.
McCain took a gamble on a newer frozen food in when the company built a frozen pizza production facility at its Grand Falls, New Brunswick location. The company made frozen pizzas one of its top priorities in the last part of the s. In subsequent years the company would increase its frozen juice holdings.
In McCain bought a new juice processing plant in Grand Falls, and in the company went on to purchase another Canadian juice operation in Calgary. In addition to the company's new interest in juices, McCain diversified its Australian frozen vegetable business by buying a processing plant for vegetables other than frozen potatoes. McCain further diversified by investing in a frozen fish processing plant in England under the Tater Meal label. McCain opened a French fry potato processing plant in Haines, France, in and by the company added another French plant in Betheune.
The decade's additional plant openings included the purchase of a Belgian frozen food company, Frima Viking, in April
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