Chips en Snacks uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk

november 26, 2007

Residents block Tyrrells' vodka distillery plans

Residents are attempting to block plans by crisps producer Tyrrells to turn its Herefordshire farm into a vodka distillery. The company hopes to use a £5 million regional prize it won in the Bank of Scotland’s Corporate £25 million Challenge to use p...

november 14, 2007

Measuring carbon footprint is not as tough as many believe.

As if the fat and salt content weren’t enough, people eating a bag of Walkers crisps since April have also had to consider a label explaining the amount of carbon emitted to create and deliver the product. Steve John, head of corporate communications ...

november 05, 2007

Real Crisps launches TGI-Friday snack range in the UK

Welsh snacks manufacturer Real Crisps is to supply a range of TGI Friday’s branded snacks in the UK. TGI snacks, based on the successful bar-restaurant venue, are already a big seller in the US. Crumlin-based Real Crisps is now the official UK distri...

november 04, 2007

Tyrrell's Chips building vodka distillation unit

Will Chase, 46, founder and managing director of Tyrrells, said the firm planned to use the money won in the Entrepreneurs Challenge to make vodka from potatoes grown on the farm but which are too small to turn into crisps. The company has already b...

oktober 31, 2007

Tyrrells Potato Chips wins Midlands Final of the Bank of Scotland £25 million Entrepreneur Challenge

Will Chase, the Herefordshire farmer behind the hugely successful Tyrell’s Crisps brand, has been awarded £5m in interest-free funding by the Bank of Scotland to develop his business further. Mr Chase, who won the Midlands category in the Banks of Sco...

oktober 14, 2007

UK considering Trans fat ban

The food industry faces a government inquiry into its role in Britain’s surging obesity and heart disease rates with ministers considering a ban on trans fats as the first decisive step. The inquiry, ordered by Alan Johnson, the health secretary, fo...

oktober 13, 2007

Golden Wonder uses diamond jubilee for an 'attack' on Walkers

Crisp-maker Golden Wonder has launched a diamond jubilee (60 year) 'counter attack' to regain the home territory lost to ex-England striker Gary Lineker and his Walkers XI.The fight-back is being led by mother-of-five Della Daly, who has been put in c...

oktober 05, 2007

Pringles launches Christmas packs

This Christmas, Pringles, the UK's No. 1 social snacking brand, is launching new Christmas packs, offering retailers a range of support to boost sales over the critical festive period. 43.7% of shoppers buy Pringles over Christmas, contributing a mass...

oktober 02, 2007

Kettle Chips (UK) fights workers over unionisation

Workers at the Kettle Chips factory vote today on whether to join a trade union, despite stiff opposition from their private equity bosses.Although workers in the food industry often have fewer rights than those in other industries, the Kettle Chips c...

september 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.

september 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...

september 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...

september 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...

september 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?

september 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...

september 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...

september 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...

september 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...