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In 1982, Harbor Freight Tools opened its first retail store in Lexington, Kentucky, to sell returned merchandise from its mail order business. The original location was at 1387 East New Circle Road. It later moved to 1301 Winchester Road, Suite 213. The venture proved successful, and Harbor Freight Tools began to open stores across the United ...
Instant mashed potatoes are potatoes that have been through an industrial process of cooking, mashing and dehydrating to yield a packaged convenience food that can be reconstituted by adding hot water or milk or both, producing an approximation of mashed potatoes. They are available in many different flavors.
Edward Anton Maria Asselbergs (1927–1996) was a Dutch-Canadian food chemist famous for inventing the modern process of producing instant mashed potato flakes.. He was raised in the Netherlands where he received his undergraduate degree, but fled to Canada with his family during the second World War.
McCain Foods Limited is a Canadian multinational frozen food company established in 1957 in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada. [2]It is the world's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products, with 1 in 4 french fries in the world being a McCain fry. [3]
Kent Nutrition Group was founded in 2010 in a corporate consolidation of two separate regional nutrition companies — Kent (established in 1927) and Blue Seal (established in 1868) — under the Kent Corporation.
Ore-Ida (/ ɔːr ˈ aɪ d ə /) is an American brand of potato-based frozen foods currently produced and distributed by Kraft Heinz's, H.J. Heinz Company Brands LLC. based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ore-Ida's primary production facility is located in Ontario, Oregon, near the Idaho border where the company was originally founded in 1949. [3] [4]
Utz Brands, Inc. (/ ˈ ʌ t s /), more commonly known as Utz, is an American snack food company [7] based in Hanover, Pennsylvania.The company produces a variety of potato chips, pretzels, and other snacks, with most products sold under their family of brands.
For years, the potato chips, along with Coca-Cola, were marketed with the slogan, "'Great Pair' says 'the Bear'". [ 6 ] [ 7 ] On July 19, 2016, Golden Flake announced that it was being acquired by Utz for $12.00 per share in cash, representing a 71% premium over the average 30-day trading price of $7.00.