Eleanor McCain, pictured in 2017, has triggered an agreement that she says requires her siblings, cousins and their offspring to purchase her stake in the holding company that owns McCain Foods.Galit Rodan/The Canadian Press
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The heirs to Canada’s multibillion-dollar frozen-food empire are fighting. New Brunswick’s McCain Foods is the world’s largest French fry maker and is privately owned by the McCain family. Recently, one of its heirs, Eleanor McCain, requested to be bought out of her stake in the company – but her relatives are refusing to.
Globe business columnist Andrew Willis has been reporting on the showdown inside one of Canada’s wealthiest families. He’ll explain the fight over ownership, whether it could impact the world’s biggest French fry producer, and how these tensions trace back to the 1990s dispute over succession between McCain Foods co-founders.
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