Frito-Lay Frito-Lay Frito-Lay, Inc. is an American subsidiary of PepsiCo that manufactures, markets, and sells corn chips, potato chips, and other snack foods. The primary snack food brands produced under the Frito-Lay name include Fritos corn chips, Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks; Doritos and Tostitos tortilla chips; Lay's and Ruffles potato chips; Rold Gold pretzels; and Walkers potato crisps (in the UK and Ireland). Each brand has generated annual worldwide sales over $1 billion in 2009. Frito-Lay began in the early 1930s as two separate companies, The Frito Company and H.W. Lay & Company, which merged in 1961 to form Frito-Lay, Inc. Four
Michael S. Smith tour, but Smith declined due to fear of being drafted and sent to Vietnam. Smith eventually dropped out of Howard, was drafted, then classified as 4-F due to a history of migraine headaches. He joined his friend, bassist Terry Plumeri, in the group, "Love, Cry, Want", a free-improvisation group with jazz, blues, and rock influences. Smith eventually recorded with Plumeri on two albums, "He Who Lives In Many Places" (1971) featuring Herbie Hancock and John Abercrombie, and "Water Garden" (1978) (formerly titled "Ongoing") with Abercrombie, Ralph Towner, and the National Symphony String Quartet. Smith helped form the ambient music group,