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Dear Subscriber,
First of all I want to thank everyone for the responses on
last week's
Newsletter on how to deal with
rising
ingredient prices. Clearly a topic on everyone's mind.
This week's news didn't help:
another record oil price
and
another record wheat price.
Today we want to address a new development in the
premium snacks sector which I would call: "Snack
production going local" . Two companies,
"Fresh Chips" and
"The Chippery"
each offer a different concept that eliminates the
industrial potato chips production line or the snack factory
and replaces it with a mini factory you may soon find on
your street corner, literally.
Both "Fresh Chips" and "The Chippery" have spend
considerable time and effort to miniaturize the frying
process that nowadays is carried out on an industrial
production line and both companies
are now at the stage that the fruit of their labour is being
introduced to the market.
Their machines show that they have taken this development
seriously: Both systems have integrated air purification ,
so there is no need to install a costly venting system to
get rid of the frying vapours. Also, both companies have taken
the fire risk of a frying operation seriously, so both
systems come with a build in automatic fire extinguishing
system.
The final concepts are very different though: "Fresh
Chips" offers a vending machine, and as such does not
need any operator interference other than the occasional
refill of oil, sauces, extruded snack pellets or a weekly
check. "Fresh chips" provides all the necessary ingredients
and materials.
"Fresh Chips" originally started of with the quest of
developing a vending machine for french fries, but for now
they have settled with a vending machine for "hot chips", an
extruded snack that is fried in 35 seconds in the vending machine
and is offered with a choice of 4 different sauces. "Fresh
chips" even offers a vending machine
with a build in
monitor allowing advertisement, or to attract a crowd by
showing a movie.
 "The
Chippery" on the other hand is operated by a "chipper" who
feeds the mini potato chips line with suitable (low reducing
sugar) potatoes, who removes any bad potato chips and adds your favorite flavour to
the potato chips, while you wait. This unit is intended
for operation in a shop or supermarket as a special feature to
attract customers with a premium, all Natural product.
Goodbye chips factory? Goodbye snack factory? Should
snack manufacturers worry that they become redundant? I
don't think so. "The Chippery" and "Fresh Chips" are
definitely interesting developments that I believe are
currently only in their infancy, but I think these concepts
will be limited to the premium snack market. Something
special, something like fine dining in the restaurant
market.
But the premium snack market is not at all a small market and both concepts
also benefit from powerful trends as "fresh" and "locally
produced". Time will tell how widespread their
penetration will be.
Both systems can be delivered to most countries around
the world. If you are interested in one of
these concepts, let us know: we have information packages
available on each.
Enjoy reading,
Paul van Eijck
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Nutracea |
United States |
| Patented rice bran processing technology by
NutraCea is harvesting greater value from
one of the world's oldest, most available
food sources. Rich in nutrients and low in
cost, the company's stabilized rice bran
products are distributed through wholesale
and retail channels worldwide. |
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M. Grau e Hijos, S.A |
Spain |
| Manufacturer of weighing machines
especially designed to weigh and pack
potatoes, onions, carrots, chestnuts,
walnuts, garlic, oranges, shellfish
etc., in tubular netting. |
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Chippery Inc |
Canada |
| The Chippery Inc. offers a concept of
in-store production of potato chips. In
order to achieve this, the Chippery
developed a mini-potato chips line.
The Chippery claims it’s snack line is
All Natural and offers complete variety from
potato chips to sweet potato chips and other
root vegetable chips. Chippery chips allow
you to enjoy a Fresh bag of chips at almost
the same moment that they are made. Watch a
raw, unpeeled potato enter the Chippery
cooker and in three minutes, perfectly
cooked potato chips cascade into a large
bowl. The chips are tossed and flipped with
all natural Chippery seasonings, then
bagged, sealed, flavour labelled, dated and
signed by the Chipster. |
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Dale and Thomas |
United States |
| Their gourmet snacks go beyond chocolate
popcorn and cheese popcorn. Some of their
customer favorites include peanut butter
popcorn, caramel popcorn and world-famous
kettle corn popcorn. And speaking of
customer favorites, Dale and Thomas is proud
to be Oprah’s favorite popcorn, too! (She’s
partial to the Chocolate Chunk N’Caramel.) |
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Producers and Exporters Andalusian Early
Potatoes |
Spain |
| The association of Producers and
Exporters Andalusian Early Potatoes
belongs to Asociafruit, a non-profit
association representing the producers
and exporters of fruits and vegetables
in Andalusia and Extremadura. This is an
association of companies and
professionals dedicated to the
cultivation and the marketing of the
early potato in order to join forces to
achieve products with quality levels
that satisfy even the most demanding
consumers. |
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