News on Chips and Snacks from Pennsylvania

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Metropoulos & Co., a family-owned investment firm specializing in iconic American brands has made a significant investment in salty snack manufacturer Utz Quality Foods, LLC

Utz® Quality Foods, LLC, the largest privately held snack food company in the Unite States, today announced the completion of the acquisition of Golden Enterprises, Inc. by Utz Quality Foods, LLC.

Martin's Potato Chips Inc. has launched a federal trademark infringement lawsuit to fend off what it claims is a competitor's illegal incursion on its kettle logo.

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former Utz Quality Foods, Inc. executive has pleaded guilty to charges that he defrauded Utz out of approximately $1.4 million.

Golden Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: GLDC) and Utz Quality Foods, Inc. of Hanover, PA announced that they entered into a definitive merger agreement on July 18, 2016.

Snyder's of Hanover has transitioned its main pretzel bakery in Hanover, Pennsylvania, to a peanut-free production facility to accommodate consumer demand for snacks free of the allergen.

At a time when a mango habanero flavored potato chip is no more surprising than an ancho chili cheeseburger chip, how is any snack brand supposed to stand out? Wise Foods had an idea...