ICONIC AUSTRALIAN MADE SNACKS WE MAKE AUSTRALIA'S FAVOURITE SNACKS INCLUDING CC'S,
Affectionately known as 'the People's Chip', at Smith's we're honoured to celebrate our Australian heritage. Smith's Chips are proudly Australian made. We use Australian potatoes, grown by Aussie farmers – including a family farm that's been supplying us for over 50 years!
PepsiCo Australia and New Zealand (ANZ)
Frito-Lay primarily uses the brand name "Lay's" in the United States, and uses other brand names in certain other countries: Walkers in the UK and Ireland; Smith's in Australia; Chipsy in Egypt and the West Balkans; Tapuchips in Israel; Margarita in Colombia; and Sabritas in Mexico.
Thins is one of the largest brands of savoury snack potato chips released in Australia and is owned by Snack Brands Australia.
Golden Fries is Australia's most-loved frozen french chips, as our company uses top-quality Aussie potatoes to make mouthwatering crispy chips the way, we love to eat them.
Our Smith's Chips are made from 100% Australian potatoes, grown by Aussie farmers - including a family-run farm that's been supplying us for over 50 years. In 1931, Smith's took the humble potato and created the original crinkle-cut potato chip recipe we all know and love today.
Twisties are a kind of cheese curl, corn-based treat popular in Australia and parts of Asia. It was initially introduced in 1950 by the General Foods Corporation, but the brand is currently owned by Frito-Lay. Twisties go through a unique manufacturing process.
Australia's nascent semiconductor industry offers an alternative capacity to secure 'trailing edge' technologies and compound chips, as opposed to the advanced silicon chips that the US specialises in.
Production starts in Daylesford, Victoria
With the fertile potato growing conditions in Victoria and frozen potato industry in infancy, it was obvious to McCain Australia to purchase potato farms and build a production facility. A small potato processing plant was built in Daylesford to manufacture frozen fries.
Kettle Foods is unaffiliated with the Kettle Chip brand sold in Australia which is owned by Snack Brands Australia.
The Smith's Snackfood Company is one of the leading snack companies in Australia, our brands include Smith's and Red Rock Deli potato chips, Doritos, Twisties, Cheetos, Burger Rings, Nobbys, Parker's and Sakata.
The Smith's Snackfood Company is a British-Australian snack food company owned by American multinational corporation PepsiCo. It is best known for its brand of potato crisps.
Local production commenced within the next two years, with McCain processing Australian grown potatoes at a rate of 20,000 tonnes a year at a time when the French fry market was still in its infancy.
HOW it all began. Jess Davis - A former model, along with her partner Tyson Hoffmann - 36er's basketball player, set out on a mission to change the face of fast food in Australia, whilst removing the negative health stigma of the good old fashioned, humble potato.
Twistees is a brand of Maltese snacks which is now widely exported. Twistees are produced by Darrell Lee Foods at a factory in Marsa which was originally established by Ray Calleja. The most popular snack food in Malta, Twistees are sold in the UK, under the Tastees brand.
Twisties is an Aussie snack icon that has had a special place in our hearts for more than 50 years. Life's pretty straight without Twisties!
The invention of Twisties came about in 1951, by the brains of Australian immigrant Mr Isador Magid (1913-2004). Upon migrating to Australia Mr Magid began his first venture into the food industry, in the popcorn business.
Axium Foods, Inc., a division of McCleary, Inc., is a manufacturer of corn-based snack products, including plain and flavored tortilla chips, corn chips, puffed cheese snacks, and crunchy cheese snacks.
Since 1931, almost every type of Smith's snack has been manufactured in factories on Australian soil. We even source most of our potatoes locally from the best growers across Australia.
Crunching the numbers: 570 employees work at the Smith's Snackfood factory in Brisbane. 320 tonnes of potatoes are processed daily, 65,000 tonnes annually. 14 tonnes of Australian canola oil is used each day to cook the chips.
In 1931, Smith's emerged from humble beginnings in the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills. Frank Smith and George Ensor originally began making chips in 20 gas-fired cooking pots, before packing them by hand and seasoning with a “twist of salt”.
McCain Foods Limited is a Canadian multinational frozen food company established in 1957 in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada. It is the world's largest manufacturer of frozen potato products.