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Jul Jan Nov Feb Aug Mr Dale Russell Gallagher. Sep When meat rationing ended in , the company continued making its popular crisps, introducing its best-selling cheese and onion-flavored variety the same year. Walkers was still then primarily a regional brand in the Midlands, while Smiths crisps had national distribution.
Each had a share of about 19 percent of the United Kingdom's salty snack market, though Smiths' emphasis was on low prices. A month later, PepsiCo, Inc. A Euromonitor survey pegged Walkers with a There seemed to be room for innovation, as the idea of large multi-serving bags had not yet caught on in the United Kingdom, noted an analyst quoted in USA Today. The United Kingdom was also more or less free of corn snacks such as Frito's and Doritos. Americans ate twice as much snack food as Brits, according to Marketing Week, and corn products accounted for the difference.
Two years later, the company ended up renaming them Chester Snacks and halving the price. Ruffles, a PepsiCo brand of ridged potato chip, also faltered in its attempt to cross the pond, so PepsiCo replaced it with the new Walkers Crinkles brand. The acquisition of Walkers and Smiths made PepsiCo Europe's largest snack producer and allowed it to position its Frito-Lay brands for entry into the Common Market after The company gave away seven million bags of chips as part of the promotional campaign.
Walkers introduced salsa dips in the mids to help spur sales of larger bags of Doritos. Walkers Smiths, as the merged company was briefly known, was turning around its loss-making private label manufacturing by making these lines more accountable.
Private label still accounted for just 3. The company introduced some quality-related refinements to its packaging in the mids. Foil packaging was brought out for Quavers, a brand acquired via Smiths, in Foil maintained freshness better than plastic. Monster Munch, also from Smiths, switched to foil in An unrelated Australian snack food company called Smiths was owned by competitor United Biscuits.
Walkers began using nitrogen-filled bags in , another move aimed at preserving freshness. Walkers sold off its Planters Nuts business to management in As a marketing executive, he had previously overseen the rollout of Doritos.
He replaced Tony Illsley, who was leaving to lead the U. He had worked for Pedigree Petfoods before joining Walkers in Walkers updated its crisps packaging in , adding the logo of Frito-Lay, the PepsiCo unit that was Walkers' corporate parent. Package sizes were adjusted at the same time. Walkers also launched a television advertising campaign featuring soccer star Gary Lineker. The ads played off Lineker's mild-mannered image with the theme "No More Mr.
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