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Frozen potato manufacturer McCain funds new Community Shop to support local community

Stuart Mitchell

McCain Foods, the UK’s largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, is partnering with Community Shop to open a new social supermarket store in Eastfield, North Yorkshire – the home of McCain GB since 1969. Community Shop is an award winning social enterprise, which redistributes surplus food and household products through its network of 11 Community Shops across the country, selling products to local members at deeply discounted prices. Opening its doors this summer, the new Eastfield store will be the first to open in North Yorkshire and will support around…

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ABACO, ASDA, Tesco, McCain Foods, and NIAB launch digital application to address the challenges

Stuart Mitchell

ABACO Group, a European leading Agri-tech company, and NIAB, a crop science organisation, have partnered together with ASDA, Tesco, and McCain Foods to launch a digital application aimed at supporting Farmers and Growers to better manage the health and productivity of their soil and the assessment of soil quality across the UK. This innovative solution provides a database to record and analyse soil sample results and offers tangible advice to farmers on how to improve the quality of their soil. The partnership arrives in a challenging period for the agricultural…

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McCain Foods donates the equivalent of 1 million meals to FareShare

Stuart Mitchell

Since March 2020 McCain Foods has donated the equivalent of 1 million meals to leading food charity FareShare which supports vulnerable people facing food insecurity throughout the UK. During this time, McCain Foods have supported over 3000 charities and community groups within the FareShare network who have benefitted from receiving McCain Foods surplus. This includes raw potatoes, as well as a range of frozen potato products from their portfolio including oven chips and jacket potatoes. McCain Foods have been supporting FareShare with food supplies since 2013, developing thriving communities is…

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