Brand name snack foods

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Little Debbie

McKee Foods Corporation

McKee Foods Corporation is a privately held and family owned American snack food and granola manufacturer headquartered in Collegedale, Tennessee. The corporation is the maker of the Little Debbie Snacks, Sunbelt Bakery granola and cereal, Heartland Brands, and Drake's Cakes. McKee Foods has its own fleet of trucks to distribute its products.

The company was founded during the Great Depression by O.D. and Ruth McKee. O.D. started out selling cakes from his 1928 Whippet in the Chattanooga area. Wanting to expand, he bought a small bakery, Jack's Cookie Company. The bakery did well for a few years, but O.D. was still looking to expand. His father-in-law, however, did not share his ideas. O.D. decided to sell his business and start over.

The McKees moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, into a new bakery designed by O.D. After some time, they sold the Charlotte plant. They moved back to Chattanooga in the early 1950s when Cecil King, Ruth's brother, was in poor health and needed the help. They decided to buy back the bakery, and run it themselves.

McKee Baking Company moved to Collegedale in 1957. In 1991, McKee Baking Company became McKee Foods Corporation.

The son of McKee Foods' founder O.D. McKee, Ellsworth McKee, took over, but retired from day-to-day operations in September 2012 and retains the position of company chairman.

It was announced January 28, 2013, that McKee Foods would pay $27.5 million for Hostess Brands' Drake's brand, which includes Ring Dings, Yodels, and Devil Dogs products. The bankruptcy court approved the purchase on April 9, 2013.

As of 2013, McKee ships more than 900 million cartons of Little Debbie products each year.

The brand Little Debbie is better known than the company itself. Debbie is the granddaughter of founders O.D. and Ruth McKee, and daughter of Ellsworth McKee, the current chairman of the board and chief administrative officer.

In the 1960s, the McKees decided to name a product after one of their grandchildren, four-year-old Debbie. The photo was taken by the company Olan Mills. The original photo was black-and-white, and an Atlanta artist, Pearl Mann, did the original color artwork. She made Debbie look older, around 8 or 9. Minor changes were made to the photo in 1987.

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Lockets

Lockets are a confectionery produced by the Wrigley Company in the UK and Czech Republic. They are sold as medicated supplement to help nasal congestion and sore throats.

They are available in multiple flavours including cranberry and blueberry, menthol and honey. A blackcurrant flavour was produced, but was discontinued in 2009.

Lockets contain menthol, eucalyptus, vitamin C and a centre with honey. Packets generally contain 10 medicated lozenges.

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Answer 3

Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs

Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs

Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs is an Australian snack food made by the Greens food company.

Originally released in the 1970s, it is caramelised, ready-to-eat popcorn, similar to the American Cracker Jack. The concept was first floated by the head food technologist for Greens, Sir Shane McMaster, in the late 1960s, but the company delayed the product due to uncertainty of the market appeal. The popcorn is coated with toffee and rolled in crushed peanuts. Flavours include butterscotch and caramel.

Lolly Gobble Bliss Bombs were known for their colourful packaging, which featured surreal psychedelic artwork, reminiscent of Peter Max, Robert Crumb or The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. The initial marketing was developed by Frank Margan, the creative director at John Singleton's SPASM agency. This packaging was varied in the late 1980s.

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Answer 4

Lunchables

Lunchables

Lunchables is a brand of food manufactured by Kraft Heinz and marketed under the Oscar Mayer brand in the United States and Canada, and manufactured by Mondelēz and marketed under the Dairylea brand in the UK. They were initially introduced in 1988 in Seattle before being released nationally in 1989. Many Lunchables products are produced in a Fullerton, California facility, and are then distributed across the United States.

Lunchables was designed in 1985 by Bob Drane, Tom Bailey, and Jeff James as a way for Oscar Mayer to sell more bologna and other lunch meat. After organizing focus groups of American mothers Drane discovered that their primary concern was time. Working mothers especially were pressed by the time constraints of fixing breakfast for their families as well as packing something for their children to eat at school. This gave Drane the idea of creating a convenient prepackaged lunch featuring Oscar Mayer's trademark red meat. Crackers were substituted for bread because they could last longer in grocery coolers. The cheese was provided by Kraft when Oscar Mayer merged with Kraft in 1988. The design of the package was based on the look of an American TV dinner.

The term Lunchables emerged from a list of possible names for the prepackaged meal that included among others: On-Trays, Crackerwiches, Mini Meals, Lunch Kits, Snackables, Square Meals, Walk Meals, Go-Packs, and Fun Mealz.

Lunchables offers 26 different varieties of meal combinations, which include crackers, pizzas, chicken nuggets, small hot dogs, small burgers, nachos, subs, and wraps. In a typical package, such as the crackers meal combination, it contains an equal number of crackers and small slices of meat and cheese. The brand also created two versions targeting adults, by increasing the amount of food offered in each package, but these have since been discontinued. The first was called the "Deluxe" and contained two types of meats and cheeses as well as mustard and a mint. The second version, called "Maxed Out" (originally Mega Packs), was available with 40% more food than a regular Lunchables.

Lunchables also carries an assortment of drinks and desserts. In certain meal combinations, they contain Capri Sun juice drinks, either in a traditional flavor or of the "Roarin’ Waters" variant. Other drinks that are included are bottled water with Tropical Punch flavored Kool-Aid mix and a generic unlabeled small can of cola; however, the latter was later replaced with Capri Sun drinks due to health concerns. As for dessert, some packages contain Jell-O gelatin or pudding or a candy alternative, such as Butterfingers or Reese's cups.

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Answer 5

M-Azing

M-Azing

M-Azing is a candy bar manufactured by Mars, Incorporated. M-Azing is a milk chocolate candy bar with M&M's Minis chocolate candies inside. It has been available in crunchy and peanut butter flavors, in singles and miniatures varieties.

The product was originally introduced in Singles and Funsize formats in 2004. In 2005, a Minis format was launched. In 2006, the company discontinued all but the Crunchy Singles variety of the candy bar, and now has a "Now with better taste" sticker on it. Mars, Incorporated stated that they planned to rebrand the bar in 2008, but this did not happen.

In 2013, M-Azing was relaunched under the name M&M'S Chocolate Bar.

The advertisements for M-Azing bars included people doing amazing things such as a man balancing a washing machine on his teeth.

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Answer 6

Maarud

Maarud AS is a Norwegian manufacturer of snack foods.

Their most well known product are various potato chips, branded as "Maarud Potetgull" (lit. 'potato gold'), but the company also produces other foods such as tortilla chips, peanuts, and popcorn. The company also has branches in Sweden, Finland and the Baltic states under the names "Estrella" and "Taffel" (in Lithuania).

The Norwegian branch has the main office in Oslo and production facilities are at Disenå in Sør-Odal. The Swedish company has the main office in and production facilities at Angered. The Baltic division has production facilities in Kaunas, Lithuania.

The company has 390 employees.

The company traces back to 1928, when Thomas Stang of the Maarud farm at Disenå started selling farm products. Production of potato chips under the brand name "potetgull" started in 1936, after Stang had visited the United States. Around 1950, Maarud purchased industrial equipment for larger scale chip production, and the company enjoyed progress in the 1960s, helped by the advent of television. In the 1970s, Maarud became the largest snack food producer in Scandinavia.

Thomas Stang's son Ole A. Stang, Jr. took over the company in 1960. The company was sold to Freia in 1983, and to Kraft Foods in 1992. After operating as a daughter company of Kraft for several years, the company merged with Kraft and Freia in 2002, becoming Kraft Foods Norge.

Under Kraft, Maarud had trouble maintaining their position in the market. In the tough competition against KiMs, Maarud's share of the Norwegian potato chip market fell from 50% in 2001, to 33% in 2008, although the increase in consumption of snack foods meant that production at Maarud remained stable. In 2008, Kraft sold the company to the Norwegian private equity firm Herkules Capital. The sale was welcomed by both local and national politicians in Norway, as well as the employees of Maarud.

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Answer 7

May West

A May West (originally called a "Mae West", after the eponymous movie star, but the spelling was changed in the 1980s) is a round dessert cake with creme filling. It was created in Canada, and continues to be particularly popular in the province of Quebec. It is currently made by Vachon Inc., a division of Canada Bread.

The cake was invented by René Brousseau, patissier at Vaillancourt Inc., a Quebec City bakery. As of 1932 the May West was made by Stuart Ltd, run by the wealthy Montreal-based Allard family and subsequently bought out in 1979 by their longtime competitor, Vachon Inc. Vachon continued to market them under the Stuart brand, before retiring the Stuart brand and rebranding the line to reflect a consolidated Vachon lineup.

The original creme filling was custard, however it has since then been replaced by a shortening-based vanilla creme close in taste and texture to the filling found in Twinkies.

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McCoy%27s (crisp)

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Answer 9

Meanie (snack)

KP Snacks is a British producer of branded and own-label maize-, potato-, and nut-based snacks, "Choc Dips" and nuts. The KP originally stood for Kenyon Produce. The company is based in Slough, Berkshire, England.

The company was founded in 1853 as Kenyon & Son as a producer of confectionery, jam and pickles. By 1891 the company had become Kenyon & Son and Craven Limited. The company switched to producing roasted and salted hazelnuts in 1948, expanding to peanuts later. These were originally produced for sale in cinemas. In 1952 the company introduced Hercules Nuts and in 1953 the No.1 KP Nuts peanut brand.

The company became part of United Biscuits (UB) in 1968. The KP Snacks subsidiary produces a range of packet snack brands including Hula Hoops, Skips, McCoy's, Frisps, Brannigan's, Royster's, Space Raiders, Nik Naks, Wheat Crunchies, Discos, and Phileas Fogg. The snacks part is based on Teesside and in Rotherham, near the UB distribution warehouse.

The Ashby-de-la-Zouch site won a "Best Factory Award" in 2004.

UB sold the company to the German company Intersnack in December 2012 for £500 million.

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Answer 10

Mister Bee Potato Chips

Mister Bee Potato Chips

Mister Bee Potato Chips is a brand of potato chips produced since 1951 in the USA. The company was founded by Leo and Sara Klien as a small local business and grew to a million dollar enterprise by 1972. It has remained family-owned throughout its existence. In 1973, the Kliens' son, Alan, assumed control. He has held the title of CEO since 1988. The third generation of the family, Doug Kilien, became the president and COO.

The company features several varieties of potato chips. It currently offers regular original, dip style, salt and vinegar, sour cream and onion, and BBQ.Template:Buymisterbee.com

Mister Bee stopped production in November 2011. The company is in Chapter 11 and restructuring. According to Doug Klein, it has no plan to lay off anyone and no plan to close the company. Christie Mallett was named the new president on April 22, 2012, replacing Klein after a private investor infused the company with money to restart operations. Mister Bee resumed production on April 30, 2012.

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