Chips en Snacks

PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) today reported solid revenue and operating profit results in the second quarter of 2009, reflecting strong effective net pricing, product innovation and cost discipline. Reported EPS of $1.06 was flat on a 3 percent decline in...

Ice cream giants Mackies and Perthshire potato company Taypack are defying the recession to create Scotland's newest brand of crisps.Mackies at Taypack have invested £1.6 million in state of the art technology and have created 15 jobs.George Taylor of ...

Aviko uit Steenderen moet een geldboete betalen van tienduizend euro waarvan de helft voorwaardelijk.De frietfabrikant moet de boete betalen omdat het bedrijf op 22 december bijna 1600 kilogram koudemiddel HCFK had gelekt. Het middel wordt gebruikt vo...

What sort of bounty could possibly lie in piles of discarded potato peelings?“We have been interested in by-products for quite a while now,” says Dr Nigel Brunton, a senior research officer with Teagasc who works with phytochemicals derived from plants...

Ground breaking for Shearer’s Foods Massillon Production Facility Phase I took place Tuesday, July 14 on site. Ohio’s First LEED Gold Certified Food Manufacturing Plant is being constructed in the NEO Com Industrial Park. The initial phase will house p...

After the initial struggle, ITC Foods is finally making its presence felt through its parent’s distribution muscle.ITC Foods, which entered the market in 2001, is the smallest business in the Rs 23,000 crore ITC Group. But the conglomerate’s eight-year...

A sudden shortage of potatoes accompanied by sharply higher prices is eroding profit margins for large potato wafer brands and could force several smaller ones to temporarily exit the snack foods market. Prices of chipping potatoes used to make wafers ...

The familiar sounds of baseball -- the crack of the bat and the thud of baseball hitting leather -- were momentarily superseded Friday night by the unworldly sound of 39,203 fans setting the Guinness World Record(TM) for most potato chips crunched at o...

Procter &Gamble Co. has unleashed the four-decade-old snack in a barrage of new flavors, shapes and sizes with new marketing even as speculation grows that Pringles could be among the next P&G brands to be sold or spun off. "More and mor...

With a rapidly increasing demand for premium, healthier and tastier potato chips , Federal Foods LLC the marketing company and nationwide distributor of top imported products and brands across the UAE, Qatar and Oman, can now confidently say that consu...

“The reformulation of our well loved McVitie's brand was the latest in a long line of projects that have delivered a significant health benefit for consumers – without any compromise on taste” Alice Cadman, Head of Strategic Projects, United Biscuits.

“At PepsiCo, our goal is to support healthier lifestyles by providing a range of great-tasting products that are as healthy as possible. We're very proud of the work we've done to transform the nutritional profile of some of the nation's favourite foo...

Jamaica Producers Group Limited (JP) has grossed as much as $50 million in sales from its St Mary Cassava Chips project since its launch in October 2008.Minister of Agriculture Dr Christopher Tufton made the announcement at his sectoral presentation in...

To tap into the growing consumer trend for nostalgic brands, United Biscuits UK , a leading UK manufacturer of snacks, biscuits and cakes, has redesigned its Brannigans range to generate extra sales. Available now, the new design draws inspiration from...

PepsiCo, one of the world's largest food and beverage companies, announced today that it plans to invest US$1 billion in Russia over three years, together with its partner The Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG). The investment will bring the cumulative inves...

Iedere aardappel die de industrie als frietje of ander product wil verwerken moet helemaal schoon gewassen zijn. Tot nu toe kiezen de meeste frietverwerkers ervoor hun aardappelen op de fabriek te wassen. Dit heeft tot gevolg dat ze grote bergen grond ...

El grupo estadounidense de bebidas sin alcohol y de snacks Pepsico anunció el miércoles que se disponía a tomar el 20% del capital del grupo Calbee Foods, primer fabricante japonés de aperitivos, con miras a producir y vender varias marcas de snacks en...

Pepsico Inc. is acquiring a stake in Calbee Foods Co., Japan’s biggest producer of potato chips and shrimp crackers, as part of a push to sell more snacks overseas.PepsiCo, the world’s biggest snack-food maker, said in a statement it will exchange its ...