Chips y Aperitivos

Lay’s® en de samenwerkende bureaus FHV, Red Urban, OMD en RTL hebben een EFFIE ontvangen van de VEA. Vereniging van Communicatieadviesbureaus en Bond van Adverteerders (BVA) voor de campagne rondom Lay’s® Maak de Smaak. Michael Blankert, Lay's® Brand ...

Burts Chips are reintroducing their seasonal Aberdeen Angus flavoured potato chips following consumer demand. The re-launch, which continues Burts Chips’ strategy of limited edition seasonal varieties, follows on from the success of the brand’s summer...

Ireland will soon have a new manufacturer of potato crisps: Keogh’s potato growers, the sole potato supplier to the Irish grocery retailer Superquinn, is launching a range of crisps next week. The company has already secured listings in Superquinn and...

According to Rob Clayton, director of WPC 2012 organiser the Potato Council, the BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China - hold enormous potential for the development of the potato industry both in their own countries and on the international ...

Pom-Bear and Penn State Pretzel owner Intersnack is planning UK relaunches of its brands next year. The company, which is part of the Dusseldorf-based Intersnack Group, also owns the Chio, Your Nuts, Imperial and Mr Mash brands. Intersnack has recent...

Taypack Potatoes, based near Inchture, supplies Mackie's crisps and the firm is aiming to break into the lucrative export market. However, this move has received a major setback with Mackie's Aberdeen Angus beef-flavoured crisps being banned in Americ...

Kent Crisps announces that Waitrose is to stock all four flavours of premium, hand-cooked Kent Crisps at selected Kent stores from October. This includes the new Canterbury store due to open on October 6 when shoppers will be able to sample Kent Crisp...

United Biscuits UK, a leading manufacturer of biscuits, snacks and cakes, is re-launching its Skips and Nik Naks brands. Both ranges will feature distinctive new packaging and add new flavours to their ranges to boost sales for retailers. Available to...

New research, led by psychologists at the University of Bristol, has found that children who are familiar with a snack food will expect it to be more filling. This finding, published (online ahead of print) in the American Journal of Clinical Nutriti...

PepsiCo UK has now achieved Zero Waste to Landfill status at 11 of its major manufacturing sites, including Walkers in Leicester and Quaker Oats in Cupar. In 2008, PepsiCo UK revealed a number of commitments to grow sustainably and minimise its impact...

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...

Next month, Tyrrells Crisps are launching a Winter Seasonal limited edition seasoning in time for the winter period, Sour Cream &Roasted Garlic, which will be on shelves from October to February and will be priced at 69p for 40g and £1.89 for 150g ...

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...

Walkers has commissioned a new ad about the life of a potato crisp, in an effort to highlight the "three simple things"that make its potato snacks.

Om de toenemende zwaarlijvigheid en de stijgende gezondheidszorgkosten aan te pakken heeft Hongarije een wet ingevoerd waarbij speciale belasting moet worden betaald voor 'vet' voedsel. Mensen gaan meer betalen voor voedingsmiddelen met een hoog vet- ...

Chio (Intersnack) ziet grote kansen voor de zoutjescategorie in de segmenten specialty chips en zoute biscuits. In deze segmenten vindt weinig innovatie plaats, waardoor de aankoopfrequentie onder druk staat. Met echt vernieuwende, onderscheidende con...

Desicant application trials to monitor spray deposition in different parts of the potato crop canopy have demonstrated that the angled Syngenta Potato Nozzle gives better all-round coverage of leaves and stems at all heights of the leaf canopy, compare...

United Biscuits may be broken up as its private equity owners plan to revive attempts to sell the U.K. food manufacturer, The Sunday Times reports without citing sources. The move could see the group's biscuits business, including the McVitie's brand,...