Culture of the United Kingdom fried rice, chips and curry sauce). The earliest recipe for the crisp ("potato chip" in North America) is in English food writer William Kitchiner's 1822 cookbook "The Cook's Oracle". In 1920, Frank Smith of The Smiths Potato Crisps Company Ltd packaged a twist of salt with his crisps in greaseproof paper bags, which were sold around London. In the 1950s, Irish crisps company Tayto developed a technology to add seasoning during manufacture, producing the first seasoned crisps: Cheese & Onion and Salt & Vinegar. The crisp market in the UK is dominated by Walkers, which holds 56 per cent of
Seabrook Potato Crisps is 75% owned by LDC (Lloyds Development Capital) and 25% by the Management Team - Jonathan Bye - CEO, Daniel Woodwards - COO, Jon Wood - Commercial Director and Paul Monk - Chairman. The company turnover in 2017 was approximately £28m per annum. In October 2018, Seabrook Crisps was acquired by the UK subsidiary of Japanese snack company, Calbee. Seabrook Potato Crisps Seabrook Crisps (often shortened to Seabrook's) is a UK brand of crisps produced in Bradford, England, by Seabrook Crisps Ltd. The company was founded in 1945 by Charles Brook, and the name arose because of an error in