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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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January 04, 2008

Tyrrells' vodka plans move a step closer

Crisps producer Tyrrells is expecting to have its first bottles of vodka ready for sale by April after it was given the green light to build a distillery on its Herefordshire farm. Councillors granted the company planning permission to build the dist...
November 26, 2007

Residents block Tyrrells' vodka distillery plans

Residents are attempting to block plans by crisps producer Tyrrells to turn its Herefordshire farm into a vodka distillery. The company hopes to use a £5 million regional prize it won in the Bank of Scotland’s Corporate £25 million Challenge to use p...
November 07, 2007

Britain's Tyrrells Potato Chips enters Dallas market

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 ...
November 04, 2007

Tyrrell's Chips building vodka distillation unit

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...