Guys Snack Foods is a snack foods manufacturer and distributor based in Overland Park, Kansas, with its 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 is its potato chips,[1] but it also offers cheese puffs, tortilla chips and pretzels.[2]

The company was founded by Guy and Frances Caldwell in 1938 as "Guy's Nut and Candy Company", so named because it sold roasted peanuts throughout the Kansas City area.[3]

At one time the company had 1,000 employees in its Liberty, Missouri plant. It was sold to Borden Food Corporation in 1979. Borden sold it in 1994. It went into bankruptcy in 2001.[4]

It has since emerged from bankruptcy and is now based in Kansas.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Guy's Potato Chips". Guy's Snacks Corporation. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Guy's Assortment of Snacks". Guy's Snacks Corporation. Archived from the original on 1 March 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  3. ↑ "Guy's Snacks History". Guy's Snacks Corporation. Archived from the original on 22 January 2013. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  4. ↑ Associated, The (2001-02-18). "Guys Foods halts production - ljworld.com - February 18, 2001". ljworld.com. Retrieved 2012-07-12.
  5. ↑ "Guy's Snacks is on the attack, literally, for more market share". The Pitch. May 5, 2011. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
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