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Chips Ab (Chips Group)

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Company Description

Chips Ab is a Scandinavian manufacturer of potato chips. Chips Ab is market Leader in the snack segment in the Nordic and Baltic Countries.

Chips Ab brands include Taffel, OLW, Kim's Denmark, Kim's Norge, Adazu Cipsi, Polly (nuts and nut mixes), Kantolan (biscuits) and Oolannin (frozen potato products and meals).

Chips Ab was the first potato chip producer in Finland, and its brand Taffel has always been the market leader on the Finnish market.

The Chips Group turns over around EUR 260 million per year and employs around 800 persons. In 2005, the Norwegian industrial group Orkla ASA acquired all the shares in the Chips Group. In July 2007, the food company Ab Chips Food Oy is sold to the recently founded Chipsters Ab, mainly owned by companies and private persons from Åland.

In 2010, the companies of Chips Group reach market leadership with their snacks products on all Scandinavian markets.

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Kims seeking exclusive right to sell square crisps in Denmark
July 07, 2015

Kims seeking exclusive right to sell square crisps in Denmark

In Denmark, Kims has gone to court to stop Taffel's Super Snacks to sell square crisps.
September 23, 2011

Norway needs to import potatoes for potato chips production

Norway's potato growers have suffered from the heavy rains earlier this summer. "Rain and wind have washed and blown away the earth that covers the potatoes,"Jens Kristian Ulsrud at the Kims Norge potato chip producer at Skreia in the Toten d...
September 12, 2011

Latfood: good potato harvest in 2011

Potato chip manufacturer Latfood evaluates this season's potato harvest as good, forecasting a 30 ton pick per hectare, Latfood Agro-Service Director Ilgvars Krumins informed Nozare.lv. "The average crop capacity index this year is 30 tons from o...
 Palletising chips and snacks at KiM's
July 12, 2011

Palletising of Chips and Snacks at KiMs A/S

KiMs is one of Denmark’s largest manufacturers of chips and snacks. DAN-Palletiser has helped to pave the way for palletising 25 pallets per hour at the state of art manufacturing facility at Søndersø. KiMs has an annual turnover of more than 66 mill....