McCain Timeline

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  • the beginning

    The first french fry plants opened in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada

  • crossing the atlanic

    Mccain products entered the UK market

  • sales begun in australia

    mccain launches a sales organization in Australia

  • new pizza plants open

    a pizza plant starts up in Grand Falls, New Brunswick and first Australia pizza plant opens in Daylesford

  • expansion continues

    pizza plants open in ballarat, australia

  • investment in canada

    mccain announces the construction of CAD $36 million potato procesing facility in borden-carleton, prince edward island, canada

  • expansion in new zealand

    mccain food announces a major expansion of its plant in timaru, new zealand

  • acquisition in U.S

    mccain foods acquires the production facilities and food service business of anchor food products Inc, a leading U.S manufacturer of frozen appetisers

  • mccain adds chinese frozen food companies to portfolio

    mccain foods acquires wong wing foods

  • construction begins in china

    mccain foods begin construction of CAD $43.3 million french fry processing facility

  • 50th anniversary

    mccain celebrates its 50th year

  • south africa expansion

    mccain expands its potato processing facility to delmas, south africa

  • Acquisition of CelaVita

    McCain Foods purchases CelaVitta, a manufacturer of potato products based in our Netherlands.

  • Acquisition of Lutosa

    McCain Foods purchases Lutosa, based in Belgium.

  • Construction begins on Florenceville expansion

    Consruction beings on the expansion of the Florenceville French fry plant.

  • North America expansion

    McCain Foods announces a CAD $200 million capital investment in its plant in Burley, U.S.

  • McCain invests in TruLeaf

    McCain Foods completes a strategic investment in TruLeaf Sustainable Agriculture, a highly innovative Canadian agricultural technology company.

  • McCain Brazil partners with Forno de Minas

    McCain Brazil announces it would be entering a partnership with Forno de Minas, a Brazillian cheese bread snacks company.

  • McCain acquires 70% of Serya

    McCain continues to strengthen its expansion strategy in BArzil by acquiring 70% of Serya.

  • Investment in first factory in Brazil

    McCain Foods announces a US$100 million investment in its first French fry factory in Brazil.

  • McCain Foods named in Top 10 most valuable food brands

    McCain Foods is named in the top 10 most valuable food brands in the world by Brand Finance, sitting at number 9 on the list.

  • Strong Roots partnership

    McCain Foods and Strong Roots announce partnership to grow plant-based product range globally.

  • Scelta Products Acquisition

    McCain acquires Scelta Products, adding the Netherlands-based producer of frozen foods to its growing family of delicious, prepared vegetable appetizer product offerings.

  • GoodLeaf Investment

    McCain Foods 'upping' the stakes in vertical farming with GoodLeaf.

  • Resson predictive crop intelligence technologies

    McCain Foods Ltd. acquires predictive crop intelligence technologies from Resson.