(Grocery Business) - Eleanor McCain, who owns an 8.7 per cent position in McCain Foods Group Inc. has filed a claim in the New Brunswick Court of King’s Bench that details a year-long fight over how much she should receive from the sale of her inheritance, according to a report from The Globe and Mail.
According to the news article, McCain and her relatives are at odds over the private company, which is worth roughly $20 billion. McCain Foods is owned by the holding company MFGI with control of MFGI now shifting to 55 second and third generation McCain heirs.
Eleanor McCain has been trying to cash out her inheritance to back charities and her own business ventures. Her claim states that her family company “is only prepared to purchase Eleanor’s shares at a discounted price that is hundreds of millions of dollars below MFGI’s own internal estimates.”
March 30, 2026
