McCain Foods has scrapped its plan to open a potato processing plant in Russia following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
The company that was founded in New Brunswick announced the change in plans in a statement issued Thursday morning after previously saying it had halted construction as of Feb. 24.
“We have now made the decision to discontinue the project entirely,” Charlie Angelakos, McCain’s vice-president of global external affairs and sustainability, said in an emailed statement.
“In addition, we are also suspending all shipments of our products into the Russian market.”
McCain, founded in 1957 in Florenceville in western New Brunswick,
