A portion of the credit for new product development belongs to Miles Willard, an Idaho Falls chemical engineer and food-processing specialist, who has developed new items made from Idaho® potatoes for some of the largest potato processors and snack-food manufacturers. Two of Willard's most visible successes are Keebler's O'Boisies potato chips and Ore-Ida's Toaster Fries(tm).


PROCESSING COMPANIES OPERATING IN IDAHO AS OF 1991 INCLUDE:

Basic American Foods
Producers of dehydrated products with plants located at Blackfoot, Rexburg, and Idaho Falls

Nestlé Brands
Producers of frozen and dehydrated products with a plant located at Nampa

Idaho Fresh-Pak, Inc.
Producers of dehydrated products with plants located at Lewisville and Idaho Falls

Idaho Pacific Corporation
Producers of dehydrated products with a plant located at Ririe

Idaho Supreme Potatoes, Inc.
Producers of dehydrated products with a plant located at Firth

Lamb-Weston
Producers of frozen products with a plant located at American Falls

Larsen of Idaho
Producers of dehydrated products with a plant located at Hamer

Magic West, Inc.
Producers of frozen and dehydrated products with a plant located at Glenns Ferry

Magic Valley Foods, Inc.
Producers of frozen and dehydrated products with a plant located at Rupert

Nonpareil Corporation
Producers of dehydrated products with a plant located at Blackfoot