Noticias sobre los Chips y Aperitivos

Corazonas Foods, Inc., creators of great-tasting, heart-healthy snack foods, has announced an exclusive licensing agreement with Brandeis University to utilize its technology in creating several new categories of heart-healthy snacks. Brandeis’s innova...

This Christmas, Pringles, the UK's No. 1 social snacking brand, is launching new Christmas packs, offering retailers a range of support to boost sales over the critical festive period. 43.7% of shoppers buy Pringles over Christmas, contributing a mass...

Food giant ConAgra has joined a voluntary industry initiative to reduce its marketing to children as part of a widespread move to improve kids' nutrition and reduce the rates of obesity.Yesterday's pledge follows a call for information from the chairm...

Frito-Lay employees today dedicated the new solar electric power system that has been installed on the roof of their Arizona Service Center, the company's largest distribution center in the country. The 201-kilowatt system, made up of more than 1,000 ...

De Amerikaanse producent van consumentengoederen Procter & Gamble zou volgens de Financial Times een koper zoeken voor zijn batterijmerk Duracell en zijn voedingstak met Pringles-chips en Folgers-koffie.

Workers at the Kettle Chips factory vote today on whether to join a trade union, despite stiff opposition from their private equity bosses.Although workers in the food industry often have fewer rights than those in other industries, the Kettle Chips c...

P&G may get as much as $7 billion for Duracell, $3 billion for Folgers and $3.5 billion for Pringles, said Ali Dibadj, a New York-based analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein &Co. Chief Financial Officer Clayton Daley Jr. said last month that P&a...

Pepsico said tuesday that it agreed to acquire Brazilian snack company Comercio de Doces Lucky Ltda for an undisclosed sum, in order to boost its growth prospects in Brazil. Lucky makes a variety of snacks, including the popular Torcida and Fofura br...

Perhaps no company has more at stake than chip-giant Frito-Lay, the world's biggest producer of snack foods, with $10 billion-plus in annual sales. Home of Doritos, Fritos, Cheetos and Tostitos, Frito-Lay represents 36 percent of parent company Pepsi...

A decision by the Netherlands to put a carbon-based tax on packaging could have far reaching consequences across the EU for processors.The tax, thought to be the first in Europe, will not only mean higher costs for processors, but could be the start o...

Staff at the Walkers factory in Coventry have helped launch the firm's first wholegrain snack, SunBites. Sunbites are manufactured exclusively at the Coventry site. Walkers has invested more than £13 million in the research and development of SunBites.

Heat and Control has released a heavy-duty fryer allowing for the high-volume production of nuts, snacks and other foods.Heat and Control's Mastermatic Batch Fryers come in sizes that will produce between 600 and 800 finished pounds of product per hour...

Today the board of directors of ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE:CAG) announced two items related to the company's capital allocation program: The quarterly dividend has been raised to $0.19 per common share. This new rate will start with the Dec. 3, 2007...

A proposed bill that calls for emergency regulatory action to protect workers from diacetyl, a chemical linked to lung disease, has met with resistance from the Bush administration.The bill, submitted to the House of Representatives, would require the ...

 A snack salesman who made a living supplying pubs across Cambridgeshire says that he has been bankrupted by big business. Colin Freeman ran Packets wholesale from Breckenwood Road, Fulbourn, for 13 years, selling snacks to pubs, bars, sandwich shops a...

This local UK newspaper held a vote on the readers favorite chips flavours:   Lincolnshire's favourite flavour of crisp is - cheese and onion. The distinctive tasting treat knocked salt and vinegar into second place and the everyman crisp variety, re...

An automated chip stirrer can help boost out put by up to 25 per cent, according to its manufacturer.Heat and Control claims its Chip-Stirr is an advance on automating the process of making chips, thus reducing labour and training costs while producing...

Recently, after numerous complaints of serious illness from popcorn workers and one complaint of illness from a consumer, ConAgra and Pop Weaver removed diacetyl from its microwave popcorn and now proudly announce to their customers that their product ...