News on Chips and Snacks from United Kingdom

The battle for the jaded palates of pub snack enthusiasts has entered a new phase with the latest launch from Welsh manufacturer Real Crisps. Sour Cream &Cotswold Wild Garlic joins the premium Real Chips range, available at the end of September in...

Walkers Snacks is shunning television in favour of a sampling and direct mail campaign that will target health professionals, as well as consumers, for the £3m launch of its new SunBites brand. The wholegrain crisps will be launched on September 17. ...

Walkers is launching its first ever wholegrain snack, Sunbites. Targeting consumer looking for ‘better for you’ products, Sunbites are made with whole wheat, oats and corn. Each bag contains around a third of the suggested daily amount of wholegrains...

El estudio, realizado por la agencia TNS Worldpanel y la revista "Marketing,” concluye que hay varios ejemplos de crecimiento empresarial después de la introducción de productos más sanos (...) Marcas como los cereales Kellogg's, o las papas Walk...

Historians of literature criticise the British company Tyrrells for placing a picture from Tadesz Kantor’s Panoramic Sea Happening on a packet of crisps.  The photograph by Eustachy Kossakowski was taken during the Sea Concert, the first part of Kanto...

Prices of potato crisps, margarine, bakery goods, frozen chips and other foods could be set to jump, due to rising costs of a key ingredient.The cost of sunflower oil has risen to a 20-year high and looks likely to climb higher, because of poor growin...

A rodent-infested [plantain] crisp factory in Tottenham, north London, has been closed down and batches of its product urgently recalled after mice [rat] droppings were found throughout the premises. BMAC Food Processing Ltd was visited by environmenta...

One of UK's favourite crisp makers, Tyrrells Potato Chips, could not escape damage. Its potato crops, grown near Leominster, were under inches of water as torrential rain swept across the region. The company, which provides products to more than 4,000 ...

Chips company Walkers has apologised for the wording on the back of its packets, which it admits could cause offence to farmers because of the current flooding crisis. Currently chips packets carry the message: “Muddy Good Potatoes! Everyone complains...

NFU President Peter Kendall has welcomed the move by Walkers Snackfoods, which is a reaction to customer comments on the sourcing of its ingredients. Reducing the company's food miles and carbon footprint was also part of the decision. Peter Kendall sa...

A seagull has turned shoplifter by wandering into a shop and helping itself to crisps. The bird walks into the RS McColl newsagents in Aberdeen when the door is open and makes off with cheese Doritos. The seagull, nicknamed Sam, has now become so popu...