News on Chips and Snacks from the Americas

November 20, 2008

Axium Foods pushes its own snack food label: Pajeda's

Axium Foods, based in South Beloit, Ill., is a division of McCleary Inc., which for nearly 50 years has been making snack foods sold under store labels or by other companies.Axium is making a push into the market with its own snack foods label: Pajeda'...

November 18, 2008

Key Technology offers help to Kettle Chips Manufacturers: the Optyx for sorting of Kettle Chips

Key Technology introduces Optyx® sorters designed specifically for kettle-style potato chips. Featuring a unique camera and lighting configuration to sense opacity as well as subtle color differences, these new Optyx sorters identify and remove objecti...

November 13, 2008

Analysts say snacks sales held up under pressure from higher prices, consumer worries

Analysts said Thursday that new data showed snacks sales are holding up in the tough economy. "Snack trends have held up despite deteriorating macros and price increases,"Morgan Stanley analyst Bill Pecoriello told investors in a research not...

Arena auto-analyzer measures D-fructose and asparagine

November 12, 2008

Thermo Scientific Arena Analysers enable routine measurement of Acrylamide precursors, including Asparagine

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announces the introduction of a new set of highly automated and easy to use applications for potato snack &french fries producers on it’s Thermo Scientific Arena analyzers.

November 11, 2008

Frito-lay closes Mission (TX) snack manufacturing plant

San Antonio Express News reports that snack maker Frito-Lay closed its manufacturing plant in Mission on Nov. 5, 2008. The closure affected 62 employees. The report is based on recent Texas Workforce Commission filings. The Mission Frito-Lay plant, whi...

November 04, 2008

ConAgra is committed to sustainability and is improving its packaging to make it more environmentally friendly

ConAgra Foods, one of the world's largest packaged foods companies, is changing its environmental programs from compliance-driven to proactive sustainability initiatives.With manufacturing facilities around the globe, ConAgra has implemented an integra...

November 04, 2008

Estudio de mercado de la papa prefrita congelada en el área urbana de Cochabamba (Bolivia)

En Bolivia el desarrollo de la agroindustria de la papa es incipiente, sin embargo el consumo de productos procesados de papa va en aumento: puré, chips y especialmente los bastones de papa frita ocupan el primer lugar en la demanda de los locales de c...

November 03, 2008

Lance 3Q earnings drop 9%

Lance Inc. reports a drop in third-quarter net income to $6.8 million, or 21 cents per diluted share. In the same period last year, the Charlotte-based snack-food manufacturer earned $7.5 million, or 24 cents per diluted share.Lance says its financial ...

October 30, 2008

Covered Bridge Potato Chips turn heads with burlap packaging

Ryan Albright has been flitting across major retail markets, launching Covered Bridge potato chips grown and processed on his farm close to Canada’s longest covered bridge near Waterville, New Brunswick. His chips turned heads at the Grocery Innovation...

October 29, 2008

P&G Reports Q1 EPS of $1.03 on 9% Sales Growth; Double digit growth (Pringles) snacks volume in North America

The Procter &Gamble Company (NYSE: PG) announced net sales growth of nine percent for the July - September quarter to $22.0 billion. Organic sales were up five percent, delivering at the mid-point of the Company's four to six percent target range....

October 29, 2008

Pepsico acquires sunflower and pumpkin seeds producer Spitz International Inc.

PepsiCo announced today an agreement to acquire Spitz International Inc., the leading maker of sunflower and pumpkin seeds in Canada. Upon completion of the acquisition Spitz will continue its Canadian operations in Bow Island and Medicine Hat, Alberta...

October 27, 2008

Snack Alliance lets consumers choose riceworks packaging design

The customer is always right, especially when it comes to knowing what works best in packaging appeal. That's what snack food company, Snack Alliance Inc. found after asking its Consumer Advisory Panel of 2600 members to vote on the revamped package d...

October 24, 2008

Conagra Foods and NBC join forces in the promotion of Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet popping Corn

ConAgra Foods and NBC have joined forces in a strategic move, promoting the warmth and great taste of a bowl of Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popping Corn, along with the thrill and excitement of NBC's new program Crusoe as the perfect combination for ...

October 23, 2008

'Hardbite potato chips' picks up 350.000 CAD capital in Canadian TV show Dragon's Den

Could specialty potato chips—with roots in Ladner—snag the interest of wealthy Canadian business moguls? Sepp Amsler was willing to find out—amid the glare of national television. He pitched his Maple Ridge-based business, Hardbite Potato Chips, to a...

October 23, 2008

Terra Chips Launch Colorful 'Stripes and Blues' Around Election

With the rapidly approaching presidential election compelling the public's attention and dominating social and other media, a line of red, white and blue snacking chips would seem to be well-positioned to ride the wave. This point has not been lost on ...

October 22, 2008

The Inventure Group, Inc. Announces record earnings for Third Quarter 2008

The Inventure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNAK) today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 27, 2008. Net revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2008 were $29.8 million, representing an increase of 17.5% compared to the third quart...

October 20, 2008

PepsiCo joins North Carolina Research Campus

PepsiCo Inc. will locate a 4,000-square-foot lab at the David H. Murdock Core Laboratory Building in four to five months. Mehmood Khan, PepsiCo chief scientific officer, described the plans as a major investment but didn’t immediately specify how many ...

October 17, 2008

Tri-Sum Potato Chips 100 years producing potato chips

Tri-Sum Potato Chip Company has reached the milestone of 100 years of business, officially making the Leominster based snack the oldest continually-produced potato chip in America. In honor of the anniversary, Richard Duchesneau and son Jeff (third- an...