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Septiembre 28, 2007

Wholegrain first for Walkers

Staff at the Walkers factory in Coventry have helped launch the firm's first wholegrain snack, SunBites. Sunbites are manufactured exclusively at the Coventry site. Walkers has invested more than £13 million in the research and development of SunBites.

Septiembre 27, 2007

Bankrupt salesman gives up fight with Walkers

A snack salesman who made a living supplying pubs across Cambridgeshire says that he has been bankrupted by big business. Colin Freeman ran Packets wholesale from Breckenwood Road, Fulbourn, for 13 years, selling snacks to pubs, bars, sandwich shops a...

Septiembre 27, 2007

Lincolnshire's favorite chips flavours

This local UK newspaper held a vote on the readers favorite chips flavours: Lincolnshire's favourite flavour of crisp is - cheese and onion. The distinctive tasting treat knocked salt and vinegar into second place and the everyman crisp variety, re...

Septiembre 20, 2007

Crisp end to the threat of strike action at Tayto

Tayto general manager Paul Allen said it was delighted yesterday to reach agreement with its workforce bringing to an end the threat of strike action.The statement followed confirmation by union Unite that a ballot over a compromise pay deal had been a...

Septiembre 19, 2007

What's the carbon footprint of a potato?

Walkers Crisps is the first firm to put carbon footprint figures on its products, with nine more companies set to follow. How are these figures calculated?

Septiembre 19, 2007

New Walkers crisps ad pushes 100% British potato status

A new Walkers TV advert, part of a massive £7.5m marketing spend, is currently on air celebrating Walkers crisps 100% British-farmed status and showing Gary Lineker in a down to earth role – quite literally. Since July this year, all Walkers crisps hav...

Septiembre 18, 2007

How Walkers took back lunch

As part of an article on "How to reinvent your brand"an example is given on "How Walkers took back lunch". During the campaign, Walkers enjoyed an 18 per cent increase in sales. An additional 10 million bags of crisps were sold i...

Septiembre 14, 2007

Hoofdoogst komt op gang

Het rooien van de hoofdoogst zal vanaf volgende week echt op gang komen. Volgens insiders is momenteel 10% van de hoofdoogst gerooid en is ca. 80% van de gewassen doodgespoten. Er zal worden begonnen met o.a. de rassen Bintje, Maritiema en Innovator,...

Septiembre 07, 2007

Crunchtime for the Tayto dispute

Strike action by workers at the Tayto crisp factory in Co Armagh could begin within days in a dispute over pay, it emerged last night. The Unite union said talks with management at the Labour Relations Agency had ended "acrimoniously'' and its me...

Septiembre 06, 2007

Real Crisps gets extreme with new flavour

The battle for the jaded palates of pub snack enthusiasts has entered a new phase with the latest launch from Welsh manufacturer Real Crisps. Sour Cream &Cotswold Wild Garlic joins the premium Real Chips range, available at the end of September in...

Septiembre 06, 2007

Walkers shuns TV for DM in £3m campaign for SunBites

Walkers Snacks is shunning television in favour of a sampling and direct mail campaign that will target health professionals, as well as consumers, for the £3m launch of its new SunBites brand. The wholegrain crisps will be launched on September 17. ...

Septiembre 01, 2007

Walkers launch of the year: wholegrain Sunbites

Walkers is launching its first ever wholegrain snack, Sunbites. Targeting consumer looking for ‘better for you’ products, Sunbites are made with whole wheat, oats and corn. Each bag contains around a third of the suggested daily amount of wholegrains...

Septiembre 01, 2007

Novozymes launches Acrylaway to Reduce Acrylamide In Food

Novozymes launches Acrylaway (asparaginase) to reduce acrylamide which is formed when starchy foods are baked, fried or toasted at high temperatures. Acrylamide is under suspicion of causing cancer.

Agosto 30, 2007

DSM agrees on asparaginase application rights with Frito-Lay and Procter & Gamble

Worldwide licencee for PreventASe™ DSM Food Specialties, Frito-Lay and Procter &Gamble have reached an agreement on the Intellectual Property rights to apply asparaginase in food products in order to reduce acrylamide levels. The reduction is cata...

Agosto 22, 2007

Estudio: Marcas que ofrecen comida más sana mejoran las ventas

El estudio, realizado por la agencia TNS Worldpanel y la revista "Marketing,” concluye que hay varios ejemplos de crecimiento empresarial después de la introducción de productos más sanos (...) Marcas como los cereales Kellogg's, o las papas Walk...

A picture of Tadesz Kantor's Panoramic Sea Happening

Agosto 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...

Agosto 13, 2007

Chips face 'monster price hike'

Prices of potato crisps, margarine, bakery goods, frozen chips and other foods could be set to jump, due to rising costs of a key ingredient.The cost of sunflower oil has risen to a 20-year high and looks likely to climb higher, because of poor growin...

Agosto 05, 2007

Rodent-infested plantain crisps factory in the UK shut down

A rodent-infested [plantain] crisp factory in Tottenham, north London, has been closed down and batches of its product urgently recalled after mice [rat] droppings were found throughout the premises. BMAC Food Processing Ltd was visited by environmenta...