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Tyrrells Potato Chips

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Tyrrell's Potato Chips is a manufacturer of hand cooked potato crisps in the United Kingdom.

In April 2008, Will Chase, farmer and founder of Tyrrell's Potato Chips sold a majority stake in the company to private equity firm Langholm Capital for 30 million pounds. He founded Chase Distilleries and started the production of potato vodka.  

Tyrrell's Potato Chips had sales of over 13 million pounds in the year to March 2008.

In 2016 Tyrrell's was acquired by Amplify, which in turn was acquired by Hershey in January 2018. Later that year, Hershey sold Tyrrell's Potato Chips to KP snacks, the UK subsidiary of Intersnack. 

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October 31, 2007

Tyrrells Potato Chips wins Midlands Final of the Bank of Scotland £25 million Entrepreneur Challenge

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...
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August 18, 2007

Picture on Tyrrell's chips raises criticism

Historians of literature criticise the British company Tyrrells for placing a picture from Tadesz Kantor’s Panoramic Sea Happening on a packet of crisps.  The photograph by Eustachy Kossakowski was taken during the Sea Concert, the first part of Kanto...
August 03, 2007

British Floods also affect Tyrrell's Potato Chips

One of UK's favourite crisp makers, Tyrrells Potato Chips, could not escape damage. Its potato crops, grown near Leominster, were under inches of water as torrential rain swept across the region. The company, which provides products to more than 4,000 ...