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
Vista, The Royal Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Society for the Blind Vista, The Royal Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Society for the Blind Vista, The Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Society for the Blind is an independent charity that provides services for blind and partially sighted people of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland of whom there are nearly 6000 recipients. Today Vista is the largest provider of services in the East Midlands area for visually impaired people run as an independent charity Vista's Community Services are one of the largest and most successful in the country. Vista has one simple aim which is to give visually impaired people the support they need to enjoy