News on Chips and Snacks from India

US Snack foods manufacturer Dirty Potato is all set to enter the Indian market.

McCain Foods India, which sources potatoes for its french fries and wedges from Deesa in Gujarat, may look at other states such as Punjab, Haryana, West Bengal or Uttar Pradesh to procure potatoes

Potato prices crashed by about Rs 100/quintal following release of stocks held by the West Bengal Government in the market.

The West Bengal government’s handling of a bumper potato crop this year is becoming a political hot potato.

The West Bengal government is set to keep its three-year-old commitment to ITC.

After repeated unsuccessful attempts to buy out Gujarat-based snacks majors such as Balaji Wafers and A-Top Foods Products, beverage and snacks maker PepsiCo India is in the process of creating its own low-cost foods business and increasing manufactur...

A new advertising campaign for Frito Lay India's Kurkure snack encourages people to spend time with their families.

Frito Lay India is looking at increasing contract farming of potato in India by almost four-fold over the next three years.   “Currently, there are 15,000 farmers doing contract farming of potato for us while we are sourcing the commodity from 40,000 f...

Frito-Lay India - with a market share of 60%- is drawing up a fresh game plan to drive volumes. To start with, the company is increasing its manufacturing capacity by setting up a new plant in West Bengal in the second half of 2010.“We are extending ou...

Frito-Lay, the snack food division of PepsiCo India, is contemplating export of indigenously-developed products Kurkure and Aliva to markets such as the US and UK. 'We are looking at markets where the Indian diaspora is strong'.

The results for the 'Give Us Your Dillicious Flavour' that was launched in October 2009 by Frito Lay's have been declared. Four flavours have been shortlisted from around 1.3 million entries from consumers. Each of the entries that got shortlisted get...

Will the futures trading force several food processing industries in India to close shop? That is one concern many food-based industries are facing in India due to the soaring prices of agriculture commodities. Many industrialists in India believe tha...

Potato chips maker, Lay's, today launched 'Give Us Your Dillicious Flavour' campaign to invite innovative flavour-ideas from Indian consumers.

In India, Frito-Lay has staved off the challenge from ITC, its first serious national-level competitor in the Indian savory snacks market. With a dominant market share in the Rs 3,000-crore branded salty snacks category, the firm says it is fast-tracki...

Potato chips may cost more this year. The Hassan potato (Karnataka, India), favoured by chip manufacturers, has been hit by blight, as a result of which only 1,000 quintals have arrived in markets across the district this month, against the usual arri...

The namkeen and wafer industry in Gujarat, which grosses sales of over Rs200 crore in a year, has received a further boost in the ongoing month of 'Shravan'. Producers of wafers and namkeen products, like Balaji Wafers, Samrat Namkeen and others, expe...

After the initial struggle, ITC Foods is finally making its presence felt through its parent’s distribution muscle.ITC Foods, which entered the market in 2001, is the smallest business in the Rs 23,000 crore ITC Group. But the conglomerate’s eight-year...

A sudden shortage of potatoes accompanied by sharply higher prices is eroding profit margins for large potato wafer brands and could force several smaller ones to temporarily exit the snack foods market. Prices of chipping potatoes used to make wafers ...