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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 ]
Michael Harrison McCain [6] was born in Florenceville-Bristol, New Brunswick, on November 13, 1958. [1] [7] He is the son of Wallace McCain, the co-founder of McCain Foods and Margaret McCain, a Canadian philanthropist. [8] McCain attended Mount Allison University and then Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. [9]
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]
McCain Foods Limited, a producer of frozen foods McCain, Inc. , privately held American manufacturing company headquartered in Vista, CA McCain Institute , Washington, D.C.–based think tank
The Prince Edward Island Potato Board is responsible for assisting growers and dealers with finding markets for PEI Potatoes as well as helping to improve the industry as a whole through investment and education in food safety, environmental sustainability, research, farm policy, and farm practices.
McCain Foods purchased Ore-Ida's foodservice division in 1997, acquiring five of the company's plants, including the Burley location. [2] [14] [15] Ore-Ida's division headquarters were located in Boise until 1999, when a new frozen foods division was created based at Heinz's corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. [14] [16]
After being successfully revived, Maple Leaf Foods was purchased by Wallace McCain, formerly co-CEO of McCain Foods, who had been ousted by his brother and co-owner Harrison McCain, in 1995 along with the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. In 2002, the company purchased San Francisco-based Grace Baking Company. [9]
[1] [2] The Sara Lee name was used of a number of frozen and packaged foods, often known for the long-running slogan "Everybody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee". In 2005, Sara Lee Corporation had operations in more than 40 countries; sold food, beverage, and household products in over 180 countries; and had some 137,000 ...