News on Chips and Snacks from the United States

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...

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 ...

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....

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

PepsiCo Inc reportó el martes una utilidad del tercer trimestre inferior a las expectativas de Wall Street, golpeado por las decepcionantes ventas de refrescos en Estados Unidos. El fabricante de las gaseosas Pepsi-Cola, los bocadillos Frito-Lay y las...

The $8.5 million potato chips factory in Mahnomen that could eventually employ up to 100 people is almost complete.Arlen Kangas, president of MMCDC, the majority shareholder of Mahnomen Baked Chips LLC, said the facility should be turning out product s...

Proctor and Gamble (P&G) has moved the digital account for its Pringles snack brand out of Agency.com, according to Revolution.The FMCG giant is believed to have handed the account to Wunderman as part of a strategy to step up its digital marketing...

Frito-Lay will lay off 300 employees as part of 3,300 job cuts announced Tuesday by its parent company PepsiCo., but the Topeka plant won't be affected, a Topeka business leader said.Frito-Lay spokeswoman Aurora Gonzalez said 130 job cuts would take pl...

PepsiCo Inc (PEP.N) reported a quarterly profit that missed Wall Street expectations, hurt by disappointing U.S. soft drink sales. The maker of Pepsi-Cola drinks, Frito-Lay snacks and Quaker foods also said on Tuesday that it would cut 3,300 jobs, or...

The Inventure Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNAK) completed its third quarter on September 27, 2008, and, as previously announced and further detailed below, the release of third quarter results and related investor conference call is scheduled for Wednesday, Oc...

The perception that snack foods to eat between meals has changed as snacking has become an additional meal and in some cases a replacement, according to a new report. Most snacking still occurs in the evening at home but this is declining. Morning snac...

Like other businesses, vending machine companies are reeling from rising wholesale and fuel prices. As a result, they're charging their customers at factories, hotels and office buildings more for candy, pop and snacks. Some vendors have raised prices...

Ballooning vegetable oil stocks and fast-declining interest from funds in volatile commodities may hold off a recovery in palm oil prices until next year despite its fall to a level much lower than rival soyoil.Palm oil's discount to soy oil has more t...

Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer of PepsiCo Inc., the world's largest snack maker, was named the most powerful woman in business by Fortune magazine for the third year in a row. The India-born Nooyi, 52, is aiming to boost business fo...