News on Chips and Snacks

When you think of childhood obesity, McDonald's and Pepsi want you to think of them -- but probably not in the way you think. Representatives from the fast-food and soft-drink conglomerates attended a international conference aimed at fighting childho...

A waterfront property in Hartland, New Brunswick will not be home to a new potato chip processing plant and retail office. Hartland Town Council chose not to rezone a residential property on Hartland's Main Street to accommodate the proposed new busi...

The largest investment ever made by the Midwest Minnesota Community Development Corp. (MMCDC) comes in the form of a stackable baked potato chip. Baked chips are one of the fastest-growing segments of the snack food market, and until now it has not ...

Tyrrell's Potato Chips knows its potato supplier intimately. In fact, the British company knows everything about the potatoes it uses, all the way from seed to chip. That's because Tyrrells started as a potato farm, and when price pressures became too ...

PepsiCo announced today a strategic realignment of its organizational structure to position the company for continued strong growth and more fully leverage the talents of its senior leaders. "Given PepsiCo's robust growth in recent years, we are ...

DSM Food Specialities has received approval for Danish food safety authorities for the use of its Preventase, meaning that the acrylamide-reducing enzyme can now be used in food products throughout the EU and the US.At present, enzymes used in food pr...

Welsh snacks manufacturer Real Crisps is to supply a range of TGI Friday’s branded snacks in the UK. TGI snacks, based on the successful bar-restaurant venue, are already a big seller in the US. Crumlin-based Real Crisps is now the official UK distri...

Will Chase, 46, founder and managing director of Tyrrells, said the firm planned to use the money won in the Entrepreneurs Challenge to make vodka from potatoes grown on the farm but which are too small to turn into crisps. The company has already b...

The sweet and salty snack industry has suffered a lower sales growth rate in 2007 due to negative press over rising obesity rates, but sales still increased by almost two per cent in 2007, according to Euromonitor analyst Irina Kazanchuk.PepsiCo has b...

Stve Chandler, Secretary General of the European Snacks association (ESA), writes in his column in The Snacks Magazine on the decision of the Expert Committee on Contaminants on Fumonisin. He is of the opinion that the decision made by the Expert Comm...

In the Philippines, potato is consumed as a vegetable and occasionally as a snack item. It is ideally cooked with meat, often as a meat extender in recipes such as “adobo,” “egado,” curry, and “lumpia.” There are about 12 Philippine companies that prod...

For years potato chip manufacturers like Lay's, Wise, Utz and others were content to churn out POPC -- plain old potato chips -- leaving the "gourmet"market to niche manufacturers. But then diversification hit the potato chip industry, offeri...

Lance, a marketer of snack food products, has reported a 5% increase in net revenue to $198.1 million for the third quarter ended September 29, 2007, compared with $188.6 million for the same period in the previous year.

After years of losses, it seemed Ubiquity subsidiary Jays Foods Inc., was poised to at least break even, and possibly even turn a modest profit. In the first six months of this year, losses were cut 50 percent compared with the losses in the first h...

Will Chase, the Herefordshire farmer behind the hugely successful Tyrell’s Crisps brand, has been awarded £5m in interest-free funding by the Bank of Scotland to develop his business further. Mr Chase, who won the Midlands category in the Banks of Sco...

EU regulators and processors say they are examining the use of diacetyl for foods, following reports of hundreds of US workers falling ill from a deadly lung disease linked to the inhalation of the popcorn flavouring chemical."The experts of the ...

Popcorn Workers Lung victims involved in a class action lawsuit got some good news from a New York appeals court yesterday. The court ruled that if the former Missouri popcorn plant workers successfully prove their claims that diacetyl exposure cause...

The company said profit was $3.08 billion, or 92 cents a share, in the first quarter compared with $2.70 billion, or 79 cents a share, a year earlier. P&G plans to push further into health and beauty products, which generate higher margins than th...