News on Chips and Snacks from the United States

Nearly all Americans consume much more sodium than they should, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most of the sodium comes from common restaurant or grocery store items.

Michigan - Kellogg Company anunció ayer un acuerdo para adquirir la marca Pringles, de Procter &Gamble (P&G), por $2,695 millones. Pringles es denominada la marca número uno a nivel mundial en papas crujientes dentro del segmento de meriendas ...

With Kellogg’s deal to acquire Procter &Gamble’s Pringles brand for $2.695 billion in cash, Diamond Foods is left with nothing. Proctor &Gamble’s announcement of the deal was accompanied by a terse statement that the consumer products company h...

Kellogg Company (NYSE: K) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Procter &Gamble's Pringles® business ("Pringles") for $2.695 billion. Pringles is an excellent strategic fit for Kellogg Company. It significantly ...

The Procter &Gamble Company (NYSE:PG) today announced an agreement to divest its Snacks business to The Kellogg Company in a $2.7 billion all-cash transaction. The companies expect to complete the deal in summer of 2012. Final timing will be depend...

Diamond Foods, Inc. today announced that The Procter &Gamble Company and Diamond have mutually agreed to terminate Diamond's proposed acquisition of the Pringles business and have released each other from all liabilities related to the proposed acq...

UW-Madison scientists collaborate with the Wisconsin Potato &Vegetable Growers Association in a continual effort to improve the state's chipping potatoes.

Procter &Gamble Co. has decided it will seek to terminate its sale of the Pringles snack business to Diamond Foods Inc., said three people with knowledge of the situation, following the accounting probe that ousted Diamond’s chief executive officer...

Snyder's-Lance, Inc. (Nasdaq-GS: LNCE) today reported results for its fiscal year 2011.  Snyder's-Lance, Inc. was formed on December 6, 2010 as a result of the merger ("Merger") of Lance, Inc. ("Lance") and Snyder's of Hanover, Inc....

Better Made Snack Foods is one of America's oldest potato chip manufacturers.

The potato industry is behind a unified effort to learn more about acrylamide - which was discovered in food about ten years ago.

Barry C. Levin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Snak King Corp., announced on January 3 that his firm has acquired C.J. Vitner Company, a leading manufacturer and distributor of snack foods in the greater Chicago market. Terms of the transactio...

In the same way that microbreweries surfaced to challenge the giants of the beer industry, Joe Guenthner won't rule out the rise of small potato chip makers.

Production at Mister Bee Potato Chip Company is expected to be up and running by early next week after the the United States Department of Justice and Trustees Office approved post petition financing allowing an investor to start giving money to the co...

Frito-Lay is asking Vancouver for $585,000 in water bill credits over three years, which the company says will help it make $15 million to $25 million in investments at its Fruit Valley plant. [This is Vancouver in Washington, US, not in British Columb...

Cargill today announced it will reduce its workforce by up to 2,000 of its 138,000 employees globally, a change of about 1.5 percent. The majority of the reduction will take place over the next six months worldwide. Cargill is providing affected employ...

PepsiCo’s Frito-Lay North America announces ten new electric trucks will be rolling out in Orlando. These electric delivery trucks will ultimately be part of the largest planned fleet of commercial all-electric trucks in North America.

I just came across a very interesting piece of research, that was also very nicely described in a blog post by one of the authors. A must read for marketers of potato chips - especially if you want to sell your chips expensive...