The Smith's Snackfood Company was enlarged in 1930. During the depression, Smith travelled to Australia to expand the business. The company nearly went under during this time and had to be propped back up by a small number of visitors and investors. The company bounced back and expanded its brands, aided with the help of advancing technology. Smiths was later owned by biscuit company Nabisco, BSN and finally sold to American company PepsiCo in the 1990s. Subsequently, Pepsico withdrew the brand, in favour of popular British brand Walkers, which had been heavily marketed in a campaign using ex-footballer turned television presenter Gary Lineker. Many
Robert S. Smith Robert S. Smith Robert Sherlock Smith (born August 31, 1944) is a former Associate Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, New York's highest court. Smith retired on December 31, 2014, due to the State Constitution's requirement that judges retire at the end of the calendar year in which they reached the age of 70. Smith was born in New York City in 1944, and grew up in Massachusetts and Connecticut. He graduated from Stanford University in 1965 and from Columbia Law School in 1968, where he was editor-in-chief of the law review. From 1968 to 2003 he practiced