Chips y Aperitivos

Pringles will hit the road on August 20 to seven cities in the Southeast to exclusively introduce its latest crispy cracker stick snack - PRINGLES STIX - in advance of the product's national rollout in Spring 2008. Consumers will be able to sample the ...

The potato chips made by the Herr family of Nottingham, Pa., are as much a part of the Philadelphia palate as hoagies, cheesesteaks and scrapple. The current face of the company is Ed Herr, who has become a local celebrity through the television commer...

Procter &Gamble Co., boosted by strong sales of new Gillette shavers and by new products in longtime brands such as Tide and Crest, reported profits for its fourth quarter and the full year each rose 19 percent. P&G also announced plans to step...

Lance, Inc. reported net revenue from continuing operations for the second quarter ended June 30, 2007 of $197.0 million, an increase of 5 percent compared with prior year second quarter net revenue from continuing operations of $188.3 million. The com...

Burger King (NYSE: BKC) has signed a license agreement with The Inventure Group (NASDAQ: SNAK) to develop a line of branded Burger King snacks. The Inventure Group makes the Poore Brothers brand of potato chips, among others. The snacks will launch in...

Burger King (BKC) will let potato-chip fans have it their way this fall with snacks in Ketchup &Fries and Flame-Broiled burger flavors.To get more exposure, the fast-food chain has licensed its brand for a line of chips to Inventure Group (SNAK). T...

Once grandes marcas estadounidenses de alimentación prometieron sumarse a la lucha contra la obesidad infantil y abstenerse de hacer publicidad de sus productos de chocolate, cereales azucarados o patatas con demasiada grasa. Para evitar que una dispos...

Nestle today refused to confirm reports that they had turned down a merger with PepsiCo last spring, a deal that would have created one of the largest and most powerful food and beverage companies in the world. Media spokesman François-Xavier Perroud d...

Health food -- of all things -- may have gotten in the way of a marriage of snack-food titans. PepsiCo Inc., the maker of Doritos and Pepsi-Cola, explored a merger with Nestlé SA in late spring, which would have created an immense global food concern w...

Snack-maker Frito-Lay says it will investigate what it is calling an "unsubstantiated claim"that a man found a deep-fried mouse in a bag of barbecue potato chips.Frito-Lay, which is owned by PepsiCo, was sending a representative to retrieve t...

Last week at the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade's annual Fancy Food Show, more than 2,300 specialty-food makers converged on the Javits Center, all looking to take a bite out of the specialty food market. Among the sellers of sauces,...

Sibirsky Bereg continues to expand its business across the CIS. In June this year, the company launched a factory in Uzbekistan, to produce a popular salted baked bread snack, Kirieshki, Vedomosti reported. Sibrisky Bereg is the manufacturer of the po...