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McCain Foods Limited is a Canadian multinational frozen food company established in 1957 in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada. [ 2 ] It is the world's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, with 1 in 4 french fries in the world being a McCain fry. [ 3 ]
McCain Foods Ltd. purchased the Old South Brand in 2000 in exchange for selling its citrus operation in the United States. Old South is the third-largest selling frozen juice concentrate brand in Canada. [2] McCain Foods (Canada) has sold its frozen beverage business in 2013 to Louis Dreyfus Canada, part of the Louis Dreyfus Commodities Group. [3]
Maple Leaf Foods is the result of the 1991 merger between Canada Packers and Maple Leaf Mills. Canada Packers plant in Toronto, ca. 1950 Canada Packers was founded in 1927 as a merger of several major Toronto meat packers , most prominently William Davies Company and was immediately Canada's largest food processor , a title it would hold for ...
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Wallace McCain co-founded McCain Foods in 1956 with his brother Harrison McCain, building it into one of the world's largest frozen food companies.In the 1990s a prolonged legal dispute between Harrison and Wallace over succession to the company leadership ended with the departure of Wallace's sons Michael and Scott McCain from McCain Foods. [6]
When McCain foods acquired Ellio's in 1988, the frozen pizza brand was outselling all competitors in the New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia markets. [4] In 2007, despite a distribution limited to the Northeastern U.S., Ellio's was the 9th best selling brand in the country, with sales totaling $34,880,060. [ 5 ]
Canada is the world's eighth-largest economy as of 2022, with a nominal GDP of approximately US$2.2 trillion. [1] It is a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Group of Seven (G7), and is one of the world's top ten trading nations , with a highly globalized economy.
Portage la Prairie is a major potato processing center, and is home to the McCain Foods and Simplot plants, which provide French fries for McDonald's, Wendy's, and other commercial chains. [13] Richardson Milling, one of the largest oat mills in the world, also has a plant in the municipality.