News on Chips and Snacks from United Kingdom

Seabrook Crisps is launching a range of Straight Cut crisps into the Impulse channel following demand from fans to bring back the format, which was last on the shelves a decade ago

KETTLE® (United Kingdom) has commissioned three talented craftspeople to lovingly ‘craft a pack’.

Responding to the increased consumer demand for strong traceability and high quality ingredients, British crisp producer Burts Chips started using locally sourced Cornish Sea Salt in its top-selling salt variant.

KETTLE® Foods Ltd (United Kingdom) is introducing a new seasonal flavour, KETTLE® Chips Lime & Black Pepper, to its range of delicious, hand cooked chips in time for the summer sales period.

Kettle Foods Ltd has withdrawn some packs of its Oven Baked Sweet Potato Chips Sweet Chilli because they contain wheat (gluten).

KETTLE® Chips the UK’s No.1 Premium Crisp brand is bringing some excitement and new news to the Single Serve Crisps and Snacks category.

KETTLE® is launching an innovative new lower-calorie snack range in the United Kingdom: KETTLE® Baked Chips

Spice Application Systems is launching an exclusive new facility which allows customers to test out the power of electrostatics on their products.

Seabrook Crisps has become the official crisps sponsor of the O2 Arena in London.

The Grocer reports that Pepsico's Red Sky potato chips brand has lost nearly all its supermarket listings.

Walkers is increasing the size of its Grab Bags by 20%. The size increase is taking place across both the Walkers core range and the brands Doritos, Monster Munch and Quavers, offering shoppers better value and making them more appealing for sharing.

Sixty firefighters tackled a blaze which started at a Walkers food processing factory in Leicester Wednesday morning.

A small British potato chip/crisp manufacturer – Corkers Crisps of Ely, Cambridgeshire has set a new Guiness record for the largest bag of potato chips ever lifted. The bag measured 5.5 metres high and had to be strong enough to support over a tonne.

English Chips maker Tyrrells is expanding its range of high end snacks with the launch of its new Apple Crisps.

Burts Chips has announced it is extending its range of hand-cooked premium crisps with the launch of Guinness Rich Beef Chilli flavour.

The Cornish Crisp has been chosen by Qantas Airways to be the crisp for business passengers on flights from London to Dubai from 1 September.

Mackie’s Crisps hosted almost 200 hundred guests at the opening of their new crisp factory in Errol, Perthshire earlier this month.

Ishida Europe is introducing an enhancement to its market-leading Atlas range of snack food bagmakers which the company says will increase its already-high speeds on Potato Chips by a further 35% to a performance leading 150 bags per minute.