Chips en Snacks uit Amerika

Ryan Albright has been flitting across major retail markets, launching Covered Bridge potato chips grown and processed on his farm close to Canada’s longest covered bridge near Waterville, New Brunswick. His chips turned heads at the Grocery Innovation...

The Procter &Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) announced net sales growth of nine percent for the July - September quarter to $22.0 billion. Organic sales were up five percent, delivering at the mid-point of the Company's four to six percent target range....

PepsiCo announced today an agreement to acquire Spitz International Inc., the leading maker of sunflower and pumpkin seeds in Canada. Upon completion of the acquisition Spitz will continue its Canadian operations in Bow Island and Medicine Hat, Alberta...

The customer is always right, especially when it comes to knowing what works best in packaging appeal. That's what snack food company, Snack Alliance Inc. found after asking its Consumer Advisory Panel of 2600 members to vote on the revamped package d...

ConAgra Foods and NBC have joined forces in a strategic move, promoting the warmth and great taste of a bowl of Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn, along with the thrill and excitement of NBC's new program Crusoe as the perfect combination for ...

Could specialty potato chips—with roots in Ladner—snag the interest of wealthy Canadian business moguls? Sepp Amsler was willing to find out—amid the glare of national television. He pitched his Maple Ridge-based business, Hardbite Potato Chips, to a...

With the rapidly approaching presidential election compelling the public's attention and dominating social and other media, a line of red, white and blue snacking chips would seem to be well-positioned to ride the wave. This point has not been lost on ...

The Inventure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNAK) today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 27, 2008. Net revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2008 were $29.8 million, representing an increase of 17.5% compared to the third quart...

PepsiCo Inc. will locate a 4,000-square-foot lab at the David H. Murdock Core Laboratory Building in four to five months. Mehmood Khan, PepsiCo chief scientific officer, described the plans as a major investment but didn’t immediately specify how many ...

Tri-Sum Potato Chip Company has reached the milestone of 100 years of business, officially making the Leominster based snack the oldest continually-produced potato chip in America. In honor of the anniversary, Richard Duchesneau and son Jeff (third- an...

PepsiCo Inc reportó el martes una utilidad del tercer trimestre inferior a las expectativas de Wall Street, golpeado por las decepcionantes ventas de refrescos en Estados Unidos. El fabricante de las gaseosas Pepsi-Cola, los bocadillos Frito-Lay y las...

The $8.5 million potato chips factory in Mahnomen that could eventually employ up to 100 people is almost complete.Arlen Kangas, president of MMCDC, the majority shareholder of Mahnomen Baked Chips LLC, said the facility should be turning out product s...

Proctor and Gamble (P&G) has moved the digital account for its Pringles snack brand out of Agency.com, according to Revolution.The FMCG giant is believed to have handed the account to Wunderman as part of a strategy to step up its digital marketing...

Frito Lay Canada said it is shutting its Pointe Claire plant by year's end, throwing 59 people out of work.Production of chips and snacks will be transferred to other Canadian plants. Frito Lay is offering unspecified severance packages to its 59 emplo...

Frito-Lay will lay off 300 employees as part of 3,300 job cuts announced Tuesday by its parent company PepsiCo., but the Topeka plant won't be affected, a Topeka business leader said.Frito-Lay spokeswoman Aurora Gonzalez said 130 job cuts would take pl...

PepsiCo Inc (PEP.N) reported a quarterly profit that missed Wall Street expectations, hurt by disappointing U.S. soft drink sales. The maker of Pepsi-Cola drinks, Frito-Lay snacks and Quaker foods also said on Tuesday that it would cut 3,300 jobs, or...

The Inventure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNAK) completed its third quarter on September 27, 2008, and, as previously announced and further detailed below, the release of third quarter results and related investor conference call is scheduled for Wednesday, Oc...

The perception that snack foods to eat between meals has changed as snacking has become an additional meal and in some cases a replacement, according to a new report. Most snacking still occurs in the evening at home but this is declining. Morning snac...