Chips en Snacks uit Europa

A Pringle is is not a potato crisp according to a High Court ruling today.The result means the top-selling snack is exempt from VAT. It is good news for manufacturers Proctor &Gamble who now stand to save millions of pounds on UK sales.The ruling c...

Walkers, Britain's No.1 crisps and snacks manufacturer, is set to drive growth of its leading better-for-you brand, Walkers Baked, with a larger 37.5g pack aimed at the Impulse channel.Walkers Baked is the most successful launch in the Crisps and Snack...

Their 'mouth-melt' taste and geometric shape 'not found in nature' ;means that Pringles must henceforth be struck from the list of snacks that Brits can call 'crisps' and, more crucially, that they can tax.

Controlling portion size is one of the corner stones in the efforts to reduce Obesity. In an effort to help consumers control portion size, snack manufacturers are increasingly offering these small packages.

That is a step in the right direction. Right? Maybe not....

PepsiCo UK has drafted in Mars strategy chief Ian Ellington as vice president of marketing for its Walkers business. He joins from Mars UK, where he has worked for the past 17 years. The move marks a departure in Pepsico’s strategy of promoting from ...

Kettle Chips, the number one hand-cooked crisp brand, is launching a new variety - Red Thai Curry - in time for the key summer sales period.The new seasoning is a deliciously simple take on the popular south-east Asian dish, embracing a variety of spic...

Pringles, the UK's No. 1 large sharing brand from P&G, is offering shoppers the chance to "Take away a tempting taste of China” by adding two exotic new limited edition flavours to the current range. Sweet and Sour and Peking Duck with hoi si...

Consumers outside Yorkshire can now savour the taste of Henderson'sRelish from Sheffield for the  first time, courtesy of the Yorkshire Crisps Company. It has teamed up with the Sheffield sauce maker - whose popular secret recipe has been produced in t...

Lincolnshire farmer Alex Albone set up Pipers Crisps in 2004. Today, he produces 75,000 bags a week, good for a sales of £1.3m– but downright refuses to supply major supermarkets.   “I’d rather sell to the village shop where you buy your daily newspa...

Walkers, Britain's No.1 crisps and snacks manufacturer, is continuing to drive sales of its £93m Doritos brand with the launch of an innovative new range – Doritos Collisions – which takes two bold, complementary flavoured chips and puts them in one s...

As the chef whose reputation has been built on his ability to confuse and tantalise tastebuds with such confections as crab ice cream and leather purée, Heston Blumenthal would be naturally drawn to a company that depends upon the strange alchemy of s...

Children's favourite snacks are crisps, biscuits, cakes and confectionery but the healthy eating message is filtering through, according to a new survey. The survey was commissioned by the UK Federation of Bakers (FoB) and Flour Advisory Bureau (FAB).W...

If you are out and about and are looking for a quick, healthy snack for your children, an orange and lemon wholegrain muffin may sound like a good option. If you are watching their salt intake, however, you would be better off giving them a bag of cri...

Pepsico heeft heeft donderdag een speciale Wheel of Retail gekregen. Lay's Baked, de in de oven gebakken aardappelchips, werd gekozen tot meest innovatieve product.

Choosing your junk food used to be easy. During the “shortage economy” under communism, Czechoslovakia was deprived of the variety of prepackaged processed food found in the West. If you wanted a savory snack, your options were simple: salted sticks...

Intersnack of Germany, known on the Czech market for its Bohemia Chips, has acquired two Czech companies Canto Hradec Kralove and Perri Crisps & Snacks Tremosna, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) wrote Monday. "We believe our sales will rise to K...

Will Chase, potato farmer and owner of Tyrrell's Potato Chips has sold a majority stake in Tyrrell's Potato Chips to private equity firm Langholm Capital for £30 million. Will Chase has overseen the rapid growth of his premium-end snacks - made using...

Five new deliciously different flavours of award-winning snack CRIPS are being unveiled at the Natural &Organic Products Show: Natural Sea Salt Sea Salt &Cracked Black Pepper Thai Sweet Chilli Mature Cheddar Cheese &Spring Onion Sea S...