McCain Foods

McCain Foods Limited

Type	Private
Industry	Frozen Foods
Founded	Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada (1957)
Headquarters	Florenceville-Bristol, New Brunswick, Canada
Key people	Allison D. McCain - Chairman Dirk Van de Put - President & CEO of McCain Foods Limited Shai Altman - President & CEO of McCain Foods (Canada)
Products	French fries, appetizers, vegetables, desserts, entrees, and oven meals
Revenue	$6.5 billion CAD (2009)
Number of employees	19,000 (2012)
Website	http://www.mccain.com

McCain Foods Limited is a Canadian multi-national privately owned company that was established in 1957 in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada. It is one of the world's largest manufacturer of frozen French fries and other potato specialties. It is also held as one of Canada's best managed companies with a platinum status recognizing their business performance and efforts throughout their organization.

Building on the potato produce company founded by the grandfather Henry McCain and father Andrew Davies, the frozen fries company was started by the third generation: brothers Harrison McCain, Wallace McCain, Robert McCain and Andrew McCain (sisters did not join in the equity of the business). The company is still privately held by their descendants.

In 1957 their first year of production the processing plant at McCain's was able to process 1,500 pounds of potato products every hour. With only 30 employees in their first year they were able to gross over $150,000 in sales.

Today McCain Foods has over 20,000 employees with 47 production facilities in six continents. It sells one-third of the world's frozen French fries products in more than 160 countries. The company now grosses 8.5 billion in sales and processes over 1 million pounds of potatoes an hour using 6.5 million tons a year.

Based on 2014 sales, it is the 19th largest private company in Canada, according to The Globe and Mail's Report on Business.

From 2010 to 2013 McCains were the sponsors of films on Film 4. In May 2014 McCain Foods announced they were the new sponsors of Emmerdale. They also sponsored All Star Family Fortunes from 2008 to 2010.