Chips en Snacks

Lance, Inc. reported net revenue from continuing operations for the second quarter ended June 30, 2007 of $197.0 million, an increase of 5 percent compared with prior year second quarter net revenue from continuing operations of $188.3 million. The com...

Chips company Walkers has apologised for the wording on the back of its packets, which it admits could cause offence to farmers because of the current flooding crisis. Currently chips packets carry the message: “Muddy Good Potatoes! Everyone complains...

Burger King (NYSE: BKC) has signed a license agreement with The Inventure Group (NASDAQ: SNAK) to develop a line of branded Burger King snacks. The Inventure Group makes the Poore Brothers brand of potato chips, among others. The snacks will launch in...

Burger King (BKC) will let potato-chip fans have it their way this fall with snacks in Ketchup &Fries and Flame-Broiled burger flavors.To get more exposure, the fast-food chain has licensed its brand for a line of chips to Inventure Group (SNAK). T...

El Banco Agropecuario (Agrobanco) invertirá 14 millones de nuevos soles en la instalación de una planta procesadora de papa en la provincia de Cutervo, cuyo producto final será exportado a Italia, informó el titular de la institución, Manuel Noriega To...

Procter &Gamble (P&G) y Sabritas ponen fin a la ‘Guerra de las Papas’. El 29 de mayo, P&G publicó un desplegado en los diarios Reforma y El Universal, donde se disculpa con Sabritas, filial de PepsiCo de México, por “posibles daños ocasiona...

Once grandes marcas estadounidenses de alimentación prometieron sumarse a la lucha contra la obesidad infantil y abstenerse de hacer publicidad de sus productos de chocolate, cereales azucarados o patatas con demasiada grasa. Para evitar que una dispos...

With flavours adapted from Indian favourites, the potato chips seem to cash in on the popularity of the dishes to connect as the preferred snack food. Be it Lay's Indian Mint Mischief or Bingo Chatkila Nimbu Achaar, Kurkure Mast Malabari Style or Chut...

Nestle today refused to confirm reports that they had turned down a merger with PepsiCo last spring, a deal that would have created one of the largest and most powerful food and beverage companies in the world. Media spokesman François-Xavier Perroud d...

Health food -- of all things -- may have gotten in the way of a marriage of snack-food titans. PepsiCo Inc., the maker of Doritos and Pepsi-Cola, explored a merger with Nestlé SA in late spring, which would have created an immense global food concern w...

NFU President Peter Kendall has welcomed the move by Walkers Snackfoods, which is a reaction to customer comments on the sourcing of its ingredients. Reducing the company's food miles and carbon footprint was also part of the decision. Peter Kendall sa...

A seagull has turned shoplifter by wandering into a shop and helping itself to crisps. The bird walks into the RS McColl newsagents in Aberdeen when the door is open and makes off with cheese Doritos. The seagull, nicknamed Sam, has now become so popu...

Snack-maker Frito-Lay says it will investigate what it is calling an "unsubstantiated claim"that a man found a deep-fried mouse in a bag of barbecue potato chips.Frito-Lay, which is owned by PepsiCo, was sending a representative to retrieve t...

Last week at the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade's annual Fancy Food Show, more than 2,300 specialty-food makers converged on the Javits Center, all looking to take a bite out of the specialty food market. Among the sellers of sauces,...

Sibirsky Bereg continues to expand its business across the CIS. In June this year, the company launched a factory in Uzbekistan, to produce a popular salted baked bread snack, Kirieshki, Vedomosti reported. Sibrisky Bereg is the manufacturer of the po...