News on Chips and Snacks from the Americas

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.

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.

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

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...

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

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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...

Jones Potato Chip Co. has produced popular snack foods since it was founded in 1945 by Frederick Jones.

PepsiCo, Inc. y el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), el mayor proveedor multilateral de financiación para el desarrollo de América Latina y el Caribe, anunciaron una alianza sin precedentes para impulsar el crecimiento social y económico en 26 ...