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
Vegas Chips Pacific Snax moved all its snack manufacturing to the Vegas Chips plant in North Las Vegas, Nevada. In 1997, Pacific Snaxs filed for Bankruptcy and was subsequently liquidated. Pacific Snaxs most popular snack item was Kettle Classics, a line of kettle cooked potato chips. The Kettle Classics line of snacks continues today under Classic Foods of Irvine, California. Vegas Chips Vegas Chips was a snack food manufacturer based in North Las Vegas, Nevada. It was founded in 1987. The company became publicly traded on the NASDAQ in 1989. Vegas Chips was best known for its brand of kettle cooked potato