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九月 17, 2008

Frankfort Frito-Lay plant honored for environmental excellence

A Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence was presented today to representatives of the Frito-Lay North America plant in Frankfort.The facility that produces potato chips and other snack-food items was recognized by the Indiana Department of Envi...

九月 16, 2008

Building green saved Kettle Foods money

One year after the grand opening of America’s first LEED® Gold certified food manufacturing plant, Kettle Foods is seeing the savings of building green. “When we decided to go for green, or in this case gold, with LEED® certification of our new factor...

九月 11, 2008

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi Adapts to Tough Climate

Indra Nooyi,PepsiCo Inc.'s chairman and chief executive, is steering the snack and beverage giant through its biggest challenges in nearly a decade.In an interview, Ms. Nooyi talked about managing in a volatile economic climate while expanding around t...

九月 09, 2008

Snack Alliance Expands riceworks® into the Vend Channel with new broker relationships

Snack Alliance Inc. (SAI) is pleased to announce several new, vital partnerships with recognized brokers within the Vend community to introduce riceworks® Gourmet Brown Rice Crisps to the Vend channel. With these new broker relationships, riceworks® wi...

九月 09, 2008

Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company receives government loan

The Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company, Carleton County’s newest tourism destination is receiving a half-a-million dollar boost from the federal government. The facility is on its way to a November opening.The Covered Bridge Potato Chip Company will es...

九月 01, 2008

Pennsylvania: There's plenty of spuds, chip producers say

"We have all the potatoes we need,"said Miller, production supervisor at Gibble's Potato Chips in Chambersburg. Pennsylvania, with 19 potato chip manufacturers and a reputation as "the snack food capital of the world,"appears to ha...

八月 26, 2008

Potato-chip shortage in Colorado due to soggy fields and switch to higher-profit crops

Potato-chip aficionados are discovering their cherished snack may be in short supply. And if they find it, they're likely to pay a bit more for it. The problem: not enough chipping spuds to supply manufacturers. "I wouldn't use the word 'shortage,...

八月 26, 2008

Shearer's Foods switches site of headquarters project

(Massillon, Ohio) - Shearer’s Foods will be moving forward on a new 200,000 square-foot headquarters and production facility here, just at a different industrial park than was first planned. The project, originally slated for the Nova Technology Park, ...

八月 25, 2008

Frito-Lay launches new initiative to position potato chips as a snack that belongs in a healthy diet

The July issue of Better Homes and Gardens introduced Frito-Lay’s new advertorial (an advertisement that looks like editorial content). Titled “Keeping up Like the Joneses,” it features a photo of a mother and her three children bringing groceries in ...

八月 25, 2008

Florida startup company to offer line of cocktail-inspired potato chips

Startup snack-food company Infused-Sun Products is looking to raise $300,000 in new capital to take a chip out of the snack category. The West Palm Beach-based firm has developed a line of cocktail-inspired potato chips called Intoxi-Tators, although t...

八月 21, 2008

Stimulant-infused energy snacks

Companies are infusing energy-giving ingredients into food products as a new way to attract customers. Energy foods provide all the stimulation of energy drinks, whilst possibly cutting out high levels of sugar, unpleasant tastes and unnatural chemical...

八月 14, 2008

Floods hurting potato chip processors in US Midwest

The damaging Midwest floods hurt the potato crop, which is now starting to be felt by chip processors and other companies. The floods cut supply and is driving up prices. Right now potato prices are up 10 to 25 percent. The owner of Mike's Mrs. Potato ...

八月 14, 2008

Frito-Lay Orlando gets EPA nod for conservation efforts

Orlando's Frito-Lay plant is using less water and electricity to make the snack chips that roll off its factory conveyors each day on Silver Star Road. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized the facility's efforts Tuesday, adding it to the...

八月 12, 2008

Three Frito-Lay plants join EPA's National Environmental Performance Track Program

Frito-Lay's Orlando, Fla., facility has become a member of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) National Environmental Performance Track Program by demonstrating excellence in environmental management and committing to above-standard goals for c...

八月 03, 2008

Consumer Sues Over Popcorn Lung Disease From Butter Flavor Diacetyl Chemical

The only known consumer to have developed the health condition known as "popcorn lung"is suing the stores that sold him his microwave popcorn, saying that they failed to warn him that he could become ill from using the product as intended.Way...

八月 01, 2008

Frito-Lay Launches New Initiative to position Potato Chips as a snack that belongs in a Healthy Diet

The July issue of Better Homes and Gardens introduced Frito-Lay’s new advertorial (an advertisement that looks like editorial content). Titled “Keeping up like the Joneses,” it features a photo of an attractive mother and her three children bringing g...

八月 01, 2008

California attorney general settles acrylamide lawsuit with Frito-Lay, Lance, Kettle Foods and Heinz

California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today settled lawsuits against Heinz, Frito-Lay, Kettle Foods and Lance Inc. after the companies agreed to slash levels of the cancer-causing chemical acrylamide in their potato chips and french fries. “T...

七月 25, 2008

EEUU sospecha de aji jalapeño en brote de salmonela

Más de 1.000 personas han enfermado debido a un brote de intoxicación con salmonela y funcionarios federales dijeron el miércoles que ahora sospechan de varias causas, incluidos los ajíes jalapeños. Desde abril, se han diagnosticado 1.017 casos de inf...