ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston Celebrates Grand Opening of Potato Processing Plant
ConAgra Foods, Inc., Omaha, Neb., celebrated the grand opening of its Lamb Weston potato processing facility in Shangdu, Inner Mongolia, the company’s first plant in China. ConAgra Foods acquired the facility in July when it purchased TaiMei Potato Industries Ltd. The acquisition was part of ConAgra Foods’ strategy to grow its international business.
The facility expands Lamb Weston’s operations in a market that has growing demand for frozen potato products. Lamb Weston makes a variety of frozen potato, sweet potato and other vegetable products for restaurants, retailers and foodservice operators in more than 100 countries around the world, and has been doing business in China and throughout Asia for more than 25 years.