Tudor Crisps and vinegar flavour crisps were sold in blue packaging and cheese and onion in green bags, like most other brands in the UK, but the move to Walkers crisps reversed the colours. Walkers is now part of the international food and drinks giant Pepsico. Tudor Crisps Tudor Crisps was a brand of potato crisps produced in Sandyford, Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom. The memorable 1970s ads featured a paper boy, bribed with a ‘canny bag of crisps’ to brave delivering his papers to a very tall tower block (in reality Derwent Tower, Dunston, Tyne and Wear). In the
Red and White Brand continued beyond the 60’s and 70’s and in 2014 store brands represent 17% of all retail grocery sales in the United States. There are thousands of Red & White products serving as the primary store brand in independent grocery stores across the United States, but the store brand market as a whole has greatly matured. Smith Michael (S.M.) Flickinger started Red & White Corporation, the nation’s first wholesale and retail business with fully integrated distribution. In 1903, Smith Michael (S.M.) Flickinger left his job as a wholesale grocery clerk in Buffalo, NY to open Flickinger Grocery Store with his brother