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Utz Brands, Inc.

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Utz Snacks is the largest independent privately held snack brand in the United States. Weekly, Utz produces over 1 million pound of potato chips and nine hunderd thousand pounds of pretzels in 4 manufacturing facilities.

Utz Quality Foods, Inc. is well-known for its line of potato chips: Regular Utz Potato Chips, Grandma Utz Potato Chips, Kettle Classics Potato Chips, Home style Potato Chips, Mystic Potato Chips and Baked Crisps.  Utz also produces a natural line of potato chips, as well as pretzels, tortilla chips, multi-grain sunflower chips, cheese curls and popcorn. Utz Quality Foods, Inc. distributes its brands primarily throughout the East Coast.

Utz Quality Foods began in 1921 as "Hanover Home Brand Potato Chips” when William and Salie Utz began making potato chips in their home in Hanover, Pennsylvania, with an initial investment of USD 300. The Utz’s worked together to produce the chips and then deliver them to local grocery stores and farmers’ markets in the Hanover and Baltimore, MD areas.

Today, Utz produces a full line of snack foods in its four Hanover, PA based manufacturing facilities and employs over 2,200 workers.
 

Utz Hanover plant - Hanover, Pennsylvania

Utz Hanover plant - Hanover, Pennsylvania (Courtesy: Conewago)

Subsidiaries
  • Tortiyahs!
  • Boulder Canyon
  • Husman's
  • Erin's Popcorn
  • Zapps potato chips
  • RW Garcia
  • Vitner's
  • Snyder of Berlin
  • Dirty Potato Chips
  • TGI Fridays
  • Golden flake
  • Tims Cascade Snacks
  • Good Health Natural Products, Inc
  • Bachman

News for this Company

Utz Brands Announces Acceleration of Supply Chain Transformation and Brand Portfolio Strategy
February 05, 2024

Utz Brands Announces Sale of Brands and Assets to 'Our Home'

Utz Brands, Inc., a leading US based manufacturer of branded salty snacks, has announced that certain of its subsidiaries including Utz Quality Foods, LLC have entered into a definitive agreement for the sale of certain assets and brands to Our Home™
Utz Brands' snacks
December 17, 2023

Utz Brands to Introduce Long-Term Growth Strategy at 2023 Investor Day

Utz Brands, Inc., a leading U.S. manufacturer of branded salty snacks, will host its 2023 Investor Day at the New York Stock Exchange.
Grillo's® Pickles Partners With Boulder Canyon to Launch Classic Dill Pickle Kettle Style Potato Chips
December 10, 2023

Boulder canyon and Grillo’s pickles team up to launch a limited time only Classic Dill Pickle Kettle Style Potato Chip

Boulder Canyon and Grillo's Pickles have teamed up to launch a limited-time Classic Dill Pickle Flavored Kettle Style Potato Chip. This collaboration offers a crunchy and flavorful snack, combining the all-natural freshness of Grillo's Pickles with Boulder Canyon's better-for-you potato chips.
Utz Brands Snacks
November 17, 2023

Utz Brands Reports Third Quarter 2023 Results

Recently, Utz Brands, Inc. , a leading U.S. manufacturer of branded salty snacks, reported financial results for the Company’s third fiscal quarter ended October 1, 2023.