Chips en Snacks

Tayto announced to cease production at its crisp manufacturing plant in the Corby, threatening 264 jobs.   The decision follows the cancellation of the only contract at the factory by Proctor and Gamble to manufacture Pringles Minis.Workers at the pl...

Het bedrijf FZ Organic in Wolvega heeft in het afgelopen jaar de chipsproductie fors verhoogd. De producent van biologische chips (waaronder het merk Trafo) zag de productie stijgen met 6 tot 8 procent stijgen. Volgens directeur Frans Andringa is dat o...

The Washington office of NASS said Washington growers planted fewer potatoes and more dry peas and will have lighter peach and apricot crops. Washington winter wheat production is expected to reach 109.7 million bushels this season, up 1 percent.Potato...

Farmers of the potato belt in Uttar Pradesh now see hope in PepsiCo. The company has started procuring a specific breed of potato from farmers at Rs 825 a quintal (100 kg) while the market is not fetching a price of even Rs 300 per quintal. The company...

On July 16, farmer Sonam Tshering, 55, from Paro, went down to Phuentsholing with 23 sacks of potato, optimistic of earning a good sum. He thought of how he would be able to meet the expenses of his two sons, both monks at Ramjam Rinpoche dratshang in ...

A fresh jalapeño pepper grown in Mexico and processed in Texas has tested positive for the strain of salmonella that has sickened more than 1,200 people in recent months, food safety and health officials said today. The U.S. Food and Drug Administratio...

It's not the Great Irish Potato Famine of the 19th century, but the summer of 2008 has turned into a major test for potato-chip producers across the country. The price of a bushel of chip potatoes has doubled in the last few months, going from $9 to a ...

Potato chip producer Ira Middleswarth &Son may soon see the end of the potato shortage that slowed their July production to a crawl, according to a company official. Thanks to Midwestern crop shortages, the Middleburg-based chip maker endured three...

The snack food market in India is $3 billion;with the organized segment accounting for almost half of the market share and growing at rate of 15 to 20 percent per year.However, the imported snack food market is growing but small ($30 million) due to hi...

As crop production costs spiral, serious savings can be made across a range of potato inputs if you manage and monitor them carefully.

The board of directors of ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) approved a dividend payment of $0.19 per common share, to be paid on Sept. 4, 2008, to shareholders of record at the close of business on Aug. 1, 2008.

Dr. Don Henne isn’t wasting his degree when he’s standing by the deep fryer waiting for potato slices to turn brown. He’s conducting research that will help the potato industry and consumers. Henne, an assistant research scientist in the Texas AgriLif...

DSM Food Specialties introduces a complete portfolio of application-specific and tailor-made PreventASe™ solutions. PreventASe™ is now available in three formulations covering specific food applications under the following sub-brands: Panna™, Bicra™ an...

It’s getting harder to find a brand that doesn’t claim to be green. But, do they have a solar power factory? Is the rest of their energy use offset by energy credits? And, are they rebuilding a town that was virtually wiped out by a tornado? Not likely...

Nearly 5,000 pounds of potatoes an hour are processed into potato chips at the Hermiston Snack Alliance plant, which runs three shifts, six days a week. The Hermiston Snack Alliance plant has added two production lines to make riceworks brand snacks. T...

Walkers is offering the public the chance to create a new flavour and make money by taking 1% of future sales of the crisps. Chef Heston Blumental will lead a panel of "flavour experts"from Walkers to select the finalists. The Do Us a Flavou...

In the UK the High Court ruled that Pringles are not crisps. Procter and Gamble successfully challenged the ruling of a VAT (tax) tribunal that Pringles should be standard-rated at 17.5 per cent as the product fell within the definition of 'potato crisps, potato sticks, potato puffs and similar products made from the potato, or from potato flour, or from potato starch'.

A snack food promotion accused of encouraging children to eat the equivalent of more than a kilogram of fat has been stung by the Advertising Standards Authority. The authority upheld a complaint by the Ministry of Health that Bluebird Foods' "R...