Walkers (snack foods) Walkers (snack foods) Walkers is a British snack food manufacturer mainly operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Walkers was founded in 1948 in Leicester, England by Henry Walker, and in 1989 was acquired by Lay's owner, Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo. They are best known for manufacturing potato crisps, and other, non-potato-based snack foods. It holds 56 percent of the British crisps market.<ref name="bbc.co.uk/food"></ref> The Walkers site in Leicester is the largest crisp production plant in the world, producing over 11 million bags of crisps per day and using about 800 tons of potatoes. In the 1880s, Walker moved
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,