McCain Foods

McCain Foods Limited
Company typePrivate
IndustryFrozen food
FoundedFlorenceville, New Brunswick, Canada (1957)
FoundersHarrison McCain
Wallace McCain
Headquarters439 King Street West, 5th Floor, ,
Canada
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
James Scott McCain - Chairman
Max Koeune - President and CEO of McCain Foods Limited
Danielle Barran - President of McCain Foods (Canada)
ProductsFrench fries, appetizers, vegetables, desserts, entrees, and oven meals
RevenueIncrease $14 billion CAD (2023)
Number of employees
20,000 (2023)[1]
Websitemccain.com

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] Its major competitors are Simplot and Lamb Weston.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Our business brands". Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  2. ^ "Company history". McCain Foods. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012.
  3. ^ Kennison, Heather (May 3, 2017). "Update: McCain Foods plans $200 million, 180 job expansion of Burley plant". Twin Falls Times-News. Archived from the original on July 5, 2018. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
  4. ^ Philpott, Tom (November 14, 1014). "Will This New GMO Potato Take Off? McDonald's Has Spoken". Mother Jones. Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
  5. ^ "Conagra Brands completes Lamb Weston spinoff, name change". AP News. Associated Press. November 10, 2016. Retrieved October 9, 2020.

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