Leicester storey of Walker's Oxford Street factory in Leicester. In the early days the potatoes were sliced by hand and cooked in an ordinary fish and chip fryer. In 1971 the Walker's crisps business was sold to Standard Brands, an American firm, who sold on the company to Frito-Lay. Walker's crisps makes 10 million bags of crisps per day at two factories in Beaumont Leys, and is the UK's largest grocery brand. The Beaumont Leys manufacturing plant is world's largest crisp factory. Meanwhile, the sausage and pie business was bought out by Samworth Brothers in 1986. Production outgrew the Cobden Street
Vodka From the Top of the World the product of a Finnish company, which used the name Finnish National Distillers in the United States. The vodka was first produced in 1970, and was launched in the U.S. market the following year. By the end of the 1990s, Finlandia was available in more than 100 countries, having enjoyed consistent growth globally. The company's efforts to increase sales in the U.S., however, were not quite as successful. Members of the target demographics were somewhat unusual in that they had little brand loyalty. Because vodka was primarily mixed with other drinks, brand was not seen to be incredibly important. Goodby,