McCain UK chief honoured at potatoes event

McCain Foods GB chief executive Nick Vermont was presented this year’s British Potato Industry Award at the BP2015 potato industry trade event in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. AHDB Potatoes announced the winner during a reception on its stand. Its chair Fiona Fell said: “It is particularly fitting that this award is presented to Nick in the company of some of our industry’s best and brightest next generation here at BP today, demonstrating to them just how far a career in the potato industry can take you.” She added that Vermont “has given a huge amount of time and energy to drive value from the potato levy for the industry”, as a board and committee member of the levy body since the inception of the Potato Marketing Board, later the British Potato Council. More