News on Chips and Snacks from Northern America

PepsiCo.'s (PEP) Frito-Lay business is staying the course in the wake of Diamond Foods Inc.'s (DMND) pending acquisition of the Pringles, which is poised to present more formibable competition in the snack aisle.

The Food Processing Suppliers Association (FPSA) announced today that it has reached an agreement with Chicago’s Convention and Tourism Bureau that will keep the association’s trade show, PROCESS EXPO, in Chicago for the foreseeable future. In 201...

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...

Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ:DMND - News) and The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG - News) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to merge the Pringles business ("Pringles") into Diamond Foods in a transaction valued at $2....

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.

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.