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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)

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News for this Company

Utz Brands
October 01, 2023

Salty Snacks manufacturer Utz Brands to close and sell multiple production plants in optimization initiative

Utz Brands, Inc. and its affiliated entities, a leading U.S. manufacturer of branded salty snacks, announced several network optimization initiatives that are expected to support long-term volume growth and reduce costs.
Jeff Clemmons shows a bag of Golden Flake potato chips from the last day of production in Birmingham. The chips are now made at the Utz factories in Hanover, Pa.(Courtesy: AL.com)
August 01, 2023

Utz Snacks closes Golden Flake potato chip factory in Birmington, Alabama; Production moved to Pennsylvania

The Golden Flake factory in Birmingham has made its final potato chip, ending a historic run as one of Alabama’s favorite snack foods made in the state. So, who ate, or is about to eat, the last Golden Flake potato chip made in Birmingham?
Jen Bentz, Executive Vice President, Insights, Innovation, and Marketing Services at Utz Brands
July 12, 2023

Utz Brands Appoints Jen Bentz as Executive Vice President, Insights, Innovation, and Marketing Services

Utz Brands, Inc., a leading U.S. manufacturer of branded salty snacks, announced that Jennifer Bentz has been appointed Executive Vice President, Insights, Innovation, and Marketing Services.
Utz and Mike’s Hot Honey Bring the Heat With a New Hot Honey Potato Chip!
May 22, 2023

Utz and Mike’s Hot Honey Bring the Heat With a New Hot Honey Potato Chip

Utz®, a leading U.S. manufacturer of branded salty snacks, has teamed up with Mike’s Hot Honey®, America’s No. 1 brand of hot honey, to create the Utz® Mike’s Hot Honey® Potato Chip.