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
Guys Snack Foods sold to Borden Food Corporation in 1979. Borden sold it in 1994. It went into bankruptcy in 2001. It has since emerged from bankruptcy and is now based in Kansas. Guys Snack Foods Guys Snack Foods is a snack foods manufacturer and distributor based in Overland Park, Kansas with a target market being the Midwest. It claims to have been the first company to sell barbecue flavored potato chips. The company's biggest product line are its potato chips, but it also offers cheese puffs, tortilla chips and pretzels. The company was founded by Guy and Frances Caldwell in 1938 as