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
St Michael (brand) under the St Michael brand. The St Michael name was adopted as a 'quality guarantee' and appeared as the "St Michael Quality Promise" on the back of food products, on the side of delivery vehicles and on in-store ordering receipts. In 2000, the new Marks & Spencer dropped the St Michael brand, and replaced it with the Marks & Spencer brand. The "St Michael Quality Promise" was subsequently phased out. St Michael (brand) St Michael was a brand that was owned and used by Marks & Spencer (M&S) from 1927 until 2000. In 1875, the firm of N. Corah and