East Midlands off the A428 in north Northampton. Butcher's Pet Care dog food (mostly own-label) is off the A428 at Crick (M1 junction 18). The crisp company Walkers (owned by PepsiCo and the UK's biggest grocery brand) makes 10 million bags of crisps a day, using 280,000 tonnes of potatoes a year, at the biggest crisp factory in the world at Beaumont Leys; next door Bradgate Bakery makes sandwiches, and nearby Walker & Sons make pies (Samworth Bros) at their Charnwood Bakery. Opposite the crisp factory at Beaumont Leys, Beaumont Park is PepsiCo's main research centre in the UK. Pork Farms is
Seabrook Potato Crisps sold through mail order. The company has a number of firsts to its name - in 1979, they were the first company to launch crinkle cut crisps, and these now make up the majority of their business. In the 1980s the company was the first to start using sunflower oil in its cooking process and in 2007 Seabrook were the first crisp brand to remove MSG from all its crisps. In 2014 Seabrook went one step further, and were the first, and remain the only major crisp brand to be Coeliac UK (gluten free) accredited. In 2014 they also launched