News on Chips and Snacks from Pennsylvania

June 09, 2020

Utz Quality Foods to Combine with Collier Creek Holdings to Form Utz Brands, Inc.

Transaction Introduces Utz as Publicly Listed Company After Nearly 100 Years as Family-Owned Business

May 12, 2020

Snack Manufacturer Utz Is in Merger Talks With Investment Company Collier Creek

Potato chip-maker Utz Quality Foods is in talks to be acquired by Collier Creek Holdings, a company started by former Blackstone Group Inc. executives, according to people familiar with the matter.

July 18, 2019

One Potato Two Potato Snacks Refreshes Design and Adds Fresh New Products and Flavors to Their Line-Up

Dieffenbach's Potato Chips Inc. revealed its new bag design for its One Potato Two Potato Brand, along with fresh new flavors and products at the 2019 Fancy Food Show in NYC last week.

July 03, 2019

Utz Quality Foods Partners With WeStock Shopping Assistant App

Utz Quality Foods, LLC announced today their affiliation with WeStock™, the crowd-stocking application (app) designed to help every day shoppers discover and request new food and beverage products.

Utz Quality Foods, LLC. (Courtesy: Business Wire)

May 20, 2019

Snack Manufacturer Utz® Quality Foods Brings the Little Utz Girl to Life

Snack manufacturer Utz Quality Foods, LLC. announced a media campaign today, including the use of regional TV, digital and social platforms, telling of the first-ever “Adventures of The Little Utz® Girl.

March 03, 2019

Reading Bakery Systems Partners with Incomec-Cerex to offer Popped Snack Systems in the United States

Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), a leading manufacturer of baking and process systems, has announced it will partner with Incomec, a Belgium-based manufacturer of popping/puffing equipment, to supply popped snack systems within the United States

Dieffenbach's Potato Chips expands production facilities

Dieffenbach's Potato Chips Inc. announced yesterday that their latest production facility in the Bethel Township is officially live.

May 06, 2018

Recall of Certain Golden Flake, Good Health, Utz and Weis Brand Tortilla Chips due to milk Allergen

Utz® Quality Foods, LLC, is voluntarily recalling select expiration dates of some Golden Flake, Good Health, Utz and Weis Brand Tortilla Chip items due to potential contamination of undeclared milk allergen.

February 28, 2018

RBS highlights redesigned low pressure extruder at SNAXPO

Reading Bakery Systems (RBS), one of the world’s leading bakery and snack production systems manufacturers, has redesigned its Low Pressure Extruder to be safer, more efficient and easier to clean.

January 10, 2018

Dieffenbach's Potato Chips Inc. Launches 'IT'S GOOD TO BE UGLY' Campaign

Uglies are ketttle cooked potato chips crafted by Dieffenbach from potatoes rejected for minor imperfections. This has saved more than 350,000 lbs of potatoes from going to waste since the launch a year ago.

December 19, 2017

Hershey goes beyond chocolate with acquisition of Amplify (Tyrrell's, SkinnyPop)

Hershey Co. is expanding further beyond chocolate, agreeing to buy the owner of SkinnyPop popcorn and Tyrrell’s potato chips for $921 million.

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December 15, 2017

Utz Quality Foods Successfully Completes Tender Offer for Shares of Inventure Foods

Utz Quality Foods, LLC, the largest privately-held and family-managed branded salty snack company in the United States, has announced that its subsidiary, Heron Sub, Inc. successfully completed its tender offer for the outstanding shares of common stock of Inventure Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNAK)

Snack Food Manufacturer Utz Quality Foods to acquire Inventure Foods

Snack Food Manufacturers Inventure Foods (Publicly listed;NASDAQ:SNAK) and privately held Utz Quality Foods, LLC announced they have entered into a merger agreement. Utz has agreed to acquire all of Inventure Foods outstanding shares of common stock in an all-cash transaction.

September 26, 2017

Utz Quality Foods announces new members to Executive Leadership Team

Utz Quality Foods announced the addition of three consumer packaged goods industry executives to the company’s senior team earlier this year.

July 04, 2017

US Pro Baseball teams cash in on specifically designed and branded Wise Snacks

Wise Foods has formed brand partnerships with two US Pro Baseball teams: the New York Mets play the Atlanta Braves

Snikiddy Relaunches Baked Fries Snack. With lots of Organic Ingredients, but no organic potato...

June 13, 2017

Snikiddy Relaunches Baked Fries Snack. With Organic Corn and Sunflower, but no Organic Potato...

Snikiddy, a line of tasty snacks made from simple, wholesome, real-food ingredients, is revamping its beloved line of Baked Fries to now include 70 percent organic ingredients.

May 18, 2017

Utz Quality Foods goes patriotic with All-American Utz Grillin' Classic Potato Chips

Utz® Quality Foods, LLC. is teaming up with the USO to support military service members and their families through the launch of its new Utz® Grillin’ Classics™ Potato Chips

January 21, 2017

Dieffenbach's Potato Chips launches Uglies - potato chips from waste potatoes

The Pennsylvanian snack manufacturer Dieffenbach's Potato Chips Inc. has launched a new potato chip brand named 'Uglies'. The chips are produced from potatoes that farmers would likely be throwing away due to minor imperfections.

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