News on Chips and Snacks from the Americas

April 05, 2011

New owner of Pringles needs to bring brand into 21st century

USA Today offers a view of the consumer perception of the brand Pringles, just sold by Procter and Gamble to Diamond foods for 1,5 billion: Pringles is broken, but fixable.

Ruffles Tapatio limon flavored potato chips

April 05, 2011

Frito-Lay Turns Up the Heat With New Tapatio Hot Sauce-Inspired Flavors

PepsiCo's Frito-Lay North America division and the family behind the renown Tapatio hot sauce brand today announced a new partnership in which Frito-Lay will sell and distribute Tapatio hot sauce-flavored Doritos tortilla chips, Fritos corn chips and Ruffles potato chips.

April 05, 2011

La compañía Procter & Gamble vendió la marca "papas fritas Pringles" a Diamond Foods por 2.350 millones de dólares

La compañía Procter &Gamble vendió la división Pringles a Diamond Foods por 2.350 millones de dólares. Dicho importe comprende 1.500 millones en acciones de Diamond y el compromiso de liquidar una deuda de 850 millones de Pringles. Según los térm...

April 04, 2011

Martin's Potato Chips adds warehouse space

Martin's Potato Chips broke ground Monday on an 18,000 square-foot expansion of its Jackson Township facility.

April 02, 2011

Último número de Andinotas ofrece información sobre lanzamiento en Ecuador de dos productos innovadores elaborados con papas nativas

El jueves 3 de marzo del 2011 en la galería “Ecuador Gourmet” de Quito se realizó el lanzamiento de dos productos innovadores elaborados a base de las papas nativas Yana Shungo (Corazón Negro) y Puca Shungo (Corazón Rojo). Los actores principales fuero...

March 29, 2011

Utz celebrates 90th anniversary

This year, Utz is celebrating the 90th anniversary of the company!

March 28, 2011

Pop Up Bowl: the new bag-to bowl design of Orville Redenbacher's(R) Gourmet(R) Popping Corn

March 27, 2011

SNAXPO visitors hear about the state of the snack food industry

More than 1100 snack food executives and suppliers from 38 countries are on hand at SNAXPO 2011 in Orlando, where they are gaining insight and knowledge at educational sessions as well as from trade show exhibitors and their counterparts from across t...

March 26, 2011

Spudmaster Colossal Potato Chip Brand revived by Missouri Family

Missourians can once again claim their state as the home of one of the world’s largest potato chips.

March 24, 2011

ConAgra Foods Reports Fiscal 2011 Third-Quarter Results

ConAgra Foods, Inc., (NYSE: CAG) one of North America's leading packaged food companies, today reported results for the fiscal 2011 third quarter ended Feb. 27, 2011.

March 21, 2011

Supermarketguru: Salty Snacks Satisfy in Many Ways

Salty snack eaters craving change have much innovation to celebrate in the salty snack aisle.

March 13, 2011

TERRA Blues® Potato Chips Help Snack Lovers Celebrate National Potato Chip Day

TERRA Blues® Potato Chips, with their distinct blue color and nutty flavor, are a perfectly unique way for chip lovers to celebrate the crispiest, crunchiest, tastiest thing to happen to the potato on National Potato Chip Day, March 14, 2011.

Quieter biodegradable sunchips packaging explained

March 08, 2011

A Quieter biodegradable SunChips bag

In October last year we wrote in a PotatoPro Newsletter about biodegradable snack bags and addressed the noise issues Frito-lay had with their SunChips packaging. Now Frito-lay has reduced the noise of the biodegradable SunChips packaging and are now introducing Quieter 100% compostable SunChips bags.

March 08, 2011

Diamond Reports Record Sales and Earnings and Increases Guidance

Diamond Foods, Inc.(Nasdaq:DMND) today reported record sales growth and a more than doubling of earnings in its second quarter of fiscal 2011.

March 07, 2011

New SNAXPO exhibitor: Emsland Group

For the first time Emsland Group will be part of the well known SNAXPO exhibition in the United States.

March 01, 2011

Deep River Snacks munches 4 Million

Deep River Snacks, a product of the Old Lyme Gourmet Co., completed a $4 million offering with investment from Southbury, Conn.-based Najeti Ventures.

February 28, 2011

INIAP del Ecuador presentará papas nativas en chips y en fresco

Con el apoyo del Instituto Nacional Autónomo de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, INIAP, el Centro Internacional de la Papa, CIP, y la Fundación Minga para la Acción Rural y la Cooperación, MARCO, se realizará el lanzamiento de dos productos innovadores y...