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
Guys Snack Foods 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 "Guy's Nut and Candy Company" as they sold roasted peanuts throughout the Kansas City area. At one time the company had 1,000 employees in its Liberty, Missouri plant. It was