News on Chips and Snacks from Ireland

February 25, 2012

Largo Foods (Tayto) receives grant for equipment and R&D

In Ireland, the government have committed grant assistance in excess of half a million euro to Gaoth Dobhair based Largo Food Exports Ltd. The funds will be used to update equipment and for research and development into new products to be produced in ...

January 30, 2012

Crunch time for Irish crisp maker Keogh's Crisps as launch nears

Poised to become part of the €9bn national food export success story in Ireland is family enterprise, Keogh's Crisps. Just two months from launch the posh crisp brand is eyeing up export markets.

November 04, 2011

Keogh's Crisps to start potato chips production in Ireland

Ireland will soon have a new manufacturer of potato crisps: Keogh’s potato growers, the sole potato supplier to the Irish grocery retailer Superquinn, is launching a range of crisps next week. The company has already secured listings in Superquinn and...

July 17, 2011

Chips maker Intersnack increases stake in Largo Foods

Ray Coyle, founder of Irish potato crisp maker Largo Foods, is selling a 25 percent stake in the company to German snack maker Intersnack, the Sunday Times reported, citing an interview with Coyle. Coyle is selling a further 11 percent stake in the co...

June 20, 2011

Largo Foods (Mr Tayto) announces further expansion

Snack foods maker, Largo Foods, is to invest €2.6m in the expansion of its Co Donegal facility, Ireland.

Largho Foods brands on sign at the factory

June 02, 2010

Largo Foods takes on extra workers

Largo Foods in Ashbourne (Ireland) has taken on a further 36 workers at its Kilbrew plant and expects to create up to another 80 jobs by next summer with its new 'Tayto Fun Park'.The manufacturers of Tayto and Hunky Dory crisps have reported an 11 per ...

December 28, 2009

Tayto: Mr Tayto's autobiography 'cutting edge 21st century marketing communications'

Iconic Irish potato chips [crisps] brand Tayto exemplifies the problems encountered by local brands in a globalised world. Savaged by rapacious retailers on the one side it is under relentless assault from multinational brands with far greater resourc...

December 09, 2009

Potato chips (crisps) manufacturer Largo set for profit despite flat sales

Irish Crisp maker Largo Foods expects to make a net profit this year in spite of sales in Ireland of its leading snackfood brands – Tayto, King and Hunky Dorys – remaining flat at about €76 million.“Our sales are up 27 per cent in the North, but in th...

July 16, 2009

What's in potato peels?

What sort of bounty could possibly lie in piles of discarded potato peelings?“We have been interested in by-products for quite a while now,” says Dr Nigel Brunton, a senior research officer with Teagasc who works with phytochemicals derived from plants...

August 06, 2008

Kids' diets improve as savoury snack makers cut out fats

Savoury snack foods including crisps, popcorn and nuts now contribute less fat and saturated fat to the diet of the country's teens than three years ago. An analysis of the Irish Universities Nutrition Alliance (IUNA) National Teen Food Survey 2008 sh...

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