McCain Foods Limited is a privately owned company established in 1957 by four brothers—Harrison McCain

Harrison McCain

Harrison McCain, CC, ONB was a Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods Limited.Born in Florenceville, New Brunswick, he was the co-founder, along with his brothers Andrew, Robert and Wallace, of McCain Foods. Harrison was the 4th son and Wallace the 5th son of the family. Their father was...

, Wallace McCain

Wallace McCain

G. Wallace F. McCain, was a Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods Limited. With an estimated net worth of $US 2.3 billion , McCain was ranked by Forbes as the 13th wealthiest Canadian and 512th in the world.- Background :Born in Florenceville, New Brunswick, he received a Bachelor of...

, Robert McCain, and Andrew McCain—in Florenceville

Florenceville, New Brunswick

Florenceville-Bristol is a Canadian town situated in the Northwest part of New Brunswick in the St. John River Valley. The town is located on the banks of the Saint John River, in Carleton County in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.The Town of Florenceville-Bristol is New Brunswick's newest...

, New Brunswick

New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It is the world's largest producer of French fries

French fries

French fries , chips, fries, or French-fried potatoes are strips of deep-fried potato. North Americans tend to refer to any pieces of deep-fried potatoes as fries or French fries, while in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, long, thinly cut slices of deep-fried potatoes are...

 and other oven-ready frozen food products.

McCain Foods has 20,000 employees and 55 production facilities in 12 countries spanning six continents. It processes one million pounds of potato

Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family . The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species...

products each hour and sells one-third of the world's frozen French fries products, in more than 110 countries.

Based on 2003 sales, it was the second largest private company in Canada, according to Forbes.

Worldwide operations

• Argentina - McCain Argentina SA
• Australia - McCain Foods (Aust) Pty Ltd.
• Austria - McCain Foods GmbH
• Belgium - McCain Foods Belgium N.V.
• Brazil - McCain do Brasil Alimentos Ltda.
• Canada - McCain Foods (Canada)
• China - McCain Foods China
• France - McCain Alimentaire SA
• Germany - McCain Deutschland GmbH
• Greece - McCain Hellas Ltd.
• India - McCain Foods (India) Pvt. Ltd
• Netherlands - McCain Foods (Holland)
• New Zealand - McCain Foods (NZ) Limited
• Poland - McCain Poland Sp. z o.o.
• Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden) - McCain Foods Nordic
• South Africa - McCain Foods SA (Pty) Ltd.
• Spain - McCain España, S.A.
• Switzerland - McCain
• Taiwan - McCain Foods Taiwan Ltd.
• United Kingdom - McCain Foods (GB) Limited
• United States - McCain USA