News on Chips and Snacks

June 10, 2018

Bare Snacks® Launches Baked Crunchy Veggie Chips

Bare Snacks®, creator of delicious Snacks Gone Simple®, has announced the launch of its new line of deliciously crunchy veggie chips: bare® Beet Chips, Carrot Chips and Sweet Potato Chips.

June 10, 2018

PepsiCo to acquire Baked Fruit and Vegetable Snacks manufacturer Bare Snacks

PepsiCo, Inc. announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Bare Foods Co. (doing business as Bare Snacks), a U.S.-based maker of baked fruit and vegetable snacks.

June 07, 2018

Shearer's sells Barrel O' Fun brand to Old Dutch affiliate

Shearer's Snacks has sold the Barrel O' Fun and Rachel's brands to UR Brands — an affiliate of Old Dutch Foods.

June 05, 2018

Quest Nutrition launches high-protein tortilla chips

Quest Nutrition has launched their latest innovation – Tortilla Style Protein Chips.

The Intersnack Group is to acquire Tyrells' snack brands

June 05, 2018

The Intersnack Group is to acquire Tyrrells' snack brands from Hershey

Last month the Intersnack Group announced that it had reached agreement for its KP Snacks business to acquire Tyrrells, Inc. and its global portfolio of better-for-you, premium snack brands from The Hershey Company.

June 04, 2018

Perú: PepsiCo invertirá en almacenes de papa

La compañía proyecta instalar bodegas refrigeradas del tubérculo en Huánuco y Huancayo. El país produce 4,6 millones de toneladas de papa al año.

May 16, 2018

Sterzing's Potato Chips struggling with product reformulation

Sterzing's Potato Chips reformulated its recipe to meet the deadline of the 2015 U.S. Food and Drug Administration mandate banning oils that contain trans fat. At first that didn't go too well...

May 06, 2018

Recall of Certain Golden Flake, Good Health, Utz and Weis Brand Tortilla Chips due to milk Allergen

Utz® Quality Foods, LLC, is voluntarily recalling select expiration dates of some Golden Flake, Good Health, Utz and Weis Brand Tortilla Chip items due to potential contamination of undeclared milk allergen.

PEF treatment makes a preheater in French Fry production look, well... obsolete

May 02, 2018

PEF Treatment Potatoes makes Preheater in French Fry Line obsolete

Exclusively for PotatoPro readers we can now show you a video of the industrial application of a Pulsemaster Conditioner Pulsed Electric Field system at industrial scale, treating the full line load of potatoes (60 tons/hour) for a large French Fry line.

May 01, 2018

Kettle Chips launches new size £1 sharing bags of its most popular flavours

This spring Kettle Foods launches in the United Kingdom a new range of price marked packs (£1 per bag) to target the growing sharing snacks market.

Chipsy launches its biggest agricultural programme for potato seed production

April 27, 2018

Egypt: Chipsy launches agricultural program to produce all seed potatoes locally

Pepsico's joint venture in Egypt, Chipsy For Food Industries SAE, announced a major agricultural programme to produce all seed potatoes locally.

April 26, 2018

Pepsico brings Favorite Australian Red Rock Deli Potato Chips to United States

Global snack powerhouse Pepsico brings one of its popular Australian Snacks Brands - Red Rock Deli Potato Chips - to the United States.

April 24, 2018

Cape Cod Russet Potato Chips are back!

Missing from shelves since 2007, consumer demand for the uniquely sweet and buttery crunch of Cape Cod Russet Potato Chips made it a simple choice to reintroduce them more than 10 years later.

April 23, 2018

PepsiCo compra anualmente 65 mil toneladas de papa en Colombia

PepsiCo homenajeó a los agricultores con quienes ha trabajado y reconoció su aporte al agro colombiano. No es para menos. Estos le vienen vendiendo cada año, un promedio de 65 mil toneladas de papa y 13 mil de plátano.

United Kingdom Trade in Potato Products at all time high

April 15, 2018

United Kingdom trades more Processed Potato Products

United Kingdom potato trade saw strong performance from its processed potato sectors in the first seven months of the 2017/18 marketing season. Trade of frozen potato has seen strong growth both leaving and entering the UK, although imports still outweigh exports by ten-fold.

April 11, 2018

Irish potato chips manufacturer Keogh's Crisps secures contract with Emirates Airline

The Irish Potato Chip manufacturer Keogh’s Crisps has secured a major contract with Emirates, which will see an estimated one million bags of chips being served on their planes each year.

Closer cooperation Ishida and Heat and Control offer snack manufacturers 'end-to-end' equipment solutions

April 09, 2018

Global Heat and Control - Ishida Alliance to offer 'end-to-end' snack processing solutions

Ishida and Heat and Control are establishing a stronger collaborative alliance to provide food industry customers with full 'end to end' processing and packaging solutions.

April 03, 2018

Inventure Foods Expands TGI Fridays® Snack Line

Inventure Foods expands the TGI Fridays® snack line with new flavors, including Chipotle Cheese and Cheddar Bacon Party Bites and Sriracha Ranch Potato Skins.