News on Chips and Snacks

Sequoia Capital invests $30 million in Indore-based Prakash Snacks for an undisclosed stake.

Snyder's-Lance, Inc. (Nasdaq-GS: LNCE) is proud to announce the completion of the largest ground-based solar farm in Pennsylvania. Covering 26 acres and comprised of 15,092 solar panels, the 3.5 MW Solar Farm

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

Topkok Ferran Adria gaat voor PepsiCo innovaties bedenken.

PepsiCo has had its 27th facilitity awarded LEED certification by the US Green Building Council.

Americans are snacking more than ever with retail sales of packaged snacks ringing up $64 billion in 2010, up from $56 billion in 2006

Richard Robinson, the new boss of the North East's biggest snack company has plans to increase its sales from less than £80m to £250m in the next five years. Robinson, who has just taken over the job of Intersnack UK’s managing director, has big plans ...

Affinnova, Inc., the global leader in marketing innovation software and services, is pleased to announce that Snack Factory selected Affinnova to help spice up its snack food product line.

The FAO released today the FAO Food Price Index for May 2011, a key indicator of changes in the internatioanl prices of food commodities. At 232 points, the FAO Food Price Index was down 1 percent from the revised estimate of 235 points in April and 3...

Dos ingleses, inspirados por el Perú y sus cultivos de papa de más de cuatro mil variedades, crean un snack gourmet con todo el sabor peruano para los mercados más exigentes y gracias a una serie de organizaciones esto fue posible. La noticia completa...

In order to stimulate, a food needs to have a very clear and obvious first taste.  This needs to be strong, easy and not too complicated.  To carry that taste, either sweetness or saltiness or a combination needs to be present. 

Joe&Seph’s have released a set of three new savoury cheese popcorn blends.

A plant worker won an $814,500 judgment in Baltimore County Circuit Court after claiming he contracted a rare lung disease known as "popcorn lung"from breathing diacetyl, a chemical used to make food taste buttery.

Gran Canaria se ha sumado a la iniciativa puesta en marcha por la marca de patatas fritas Lay’s, que ha lanzado un concurso a nivel nacional llamado ‘Casting de Sabores’, creando un producto típicamente de la tierra, las Lay’s Mojo Picón. Bajo el lema...

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay Modesto, Calif., facility has become the state’s first food manufacturing site to be awarded LEED® Gold existing building

The Covered Bridge Potato Chip Co received the New Exporter Award, one of four awards recognizing excellence in exporting for New Brunswick companies.