Primary tabs

Utz Brands, Inc.

Primary tabs

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 Celebrates National Potato Chip Day With a Fresh New Look and More!
March 17, 2022

Utz Celebrates National Potato Chip Day With a Fresh New Look and More!

Utz Brands, Inc. celebrated National Potato Chip Day with the introduction of a fresh new look for its iconic Utz brand potato chips line.
Boulder Canyon & Good Health Unveil New Snacks at Expo West!
March 14, 2022

Boulder Canyon & Good Health Unveil New Snacks at Expo West

Utz Brands, Inc. introduced new snack foods from its better-for-you portfolio, including Boulder Canyon® and Good Health®, at the Natural Products Expo West show.
Utz Brands Provides IRI Retail Sales Update.
December 12, 2021

Utz Brands Provides Retail Sales Update

Utz Brands, Inc, a leading U.S. manufacturer of branded salty snacks, reported IRI MULO-C retail sales for the 4-week and 12-week periods ended October 31 and November 28, 2021.
An impression of some of the products manufactured by RW Garcia. Utz Brands is to acquire the company.
November 05, 2021

United States: Utz Brands to Acquire RW Garcia

Utz Brands Inc; a leading U.S. manufacturer of branded salty snacks, announced that its subsidiaries have entered into a definitive agreement with R.W. Garcia Holdings to acquire the equity and certain real estate assets related to the operation of RW Garcia.