Chips en Snacks

In a campaign for Lay’s that features actual farmers who grow potatoes used to make the chips, the farmers are meant to appear just as they do in life: genuine, simple, plain-spoken, salt of the earth. Oops. Strike that, given the concern among food ac...

Buyout firm Palladium Equity Partners is exploring a sale of Wise Foods, the maker of Cheez Doodles and Wise potato chips, according to two people with knowledge of the matter.Palladium has hired investment bank Piper Jaffray Cos. to find potential buy...

The Inventure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNAK), a leading specialty snack food marketer and manufacturer, is pleased to announce it has received shareholder approval to change the corporate name to Inventure Foods, Inc. The change better reflects the Compan...

Recent research from Mintel Menu Insights found that snacking is the new way to order at restaurants. Menu items that contain the descriptors “snack,” “snackable,” or “snacker” have increased by a staggering 170% since 2007 and growth is expected to c...

Following results of a study by the Cornell University Food and Brand Lab shows how labeling may stimulate purchase and consumption:   Fifty four college students were randomly assigned to try cookies that were labeled ‘organic’ or cookies that had no...

Around the same time Wilbur and Orville Wright were introducing the world to manned flight and Charles Kettering was working on the self-starting automobile ignition, Daniel W. Mikesell was trying to make his way in the business world. Eventually, he ...

Ballreich's Potato Chips received this year's Jeffrey Butland Family-Owned Business of the Year award Friday from the U.S. Small Business Administration's Cleveland district office.The 90-year-old Tiffin company hosted Gilbert Goldberg, district direct...

Robert J. Shearer, President and CEO of Shearer's Foods Inc., will give the commencement address at Lake Erie College as 181 students graduate in the 151st class on Sunday, May 9 at 11:00 a.m. in the Auxiliary Gym of the Jerome T. Osborne Family Athlet...

Freeing stream beds from aggressive Himalayan blackberries and planting native vegetation, the Kettle Brand® is marking National Wetlands Month by restoring an additional wildlife habitat in its Oregon backyard. A long-time steward of federally design...

The Inventure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNAK), a leading specialty snack food company, will expand its Bluffton, Ind. manufacturing facility to add extruded snack production capabilities later this year. The $4 million expansion is expected to be complete b...

The classic Kettle Brand® Potato Chips Lightly Salted flavor is now Sea Salt. The subtle shift in name reflects the all natural ingredients always used in every recipe and captures the brand’s reputation for delivering delicious flavor in every crunch...

ConAgra Foods announced today the winners of its 2010 Sustainable Development Awards, an internal awards program created to recognize outstanding achievements integrating sustainability into business practices while also sharing best practices across the company.

Snack Factory announced today that it will launch its new Modern Classics line of Pretzel Crisps at Whole Foods Market stores nationwide in May. Modern Classics were unveiled at the Natural Products Expo West trade show in Anaheim, CA on March 12th and...

Funky Monkey Snacks, a leading brand in the healthy snacks category, has announced a new relationship with Kroger that will result in the availability of its snacks in 400 of its stores, including stores in Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michiga...

The Inventure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNAK), a leading specialty food manufacturer, today reported record financial results for the first quarter ending March 27, 2010, highlighted by a 9th consecutive quarter of year over year earnings growth, EPS increa...

Chip Trips Frito-Lay Canada has launched a multimillion-dollar national campaign designed to bind its Lays brand closer to Canada by helping consumers explore the country from coast to coast.The new "Chip Trips"program offers discounts with ...

In the beginning, chips meant corn and potato. Then came Terra veggie chips and it was good. Now entire entrees, it seems, are available in chip form.   Risotto Chips ($2.99, 5 ounces) from New York Style are a bit of a misnomer. They're crunchy and c...

Pringles, America's favorite stacked potato crisp, introduces consumers to new Pringles Multigrain, a surprisingly tasty twist on multigrain snacks.   As the latest addition to the Pringles family, Pringles Multigrain is packed with multigrain flavor...