Kettle Foods
American foods company based in Oregon
Kettle Foods, Inc. is an American manufacturer of potato chips, based in Salem, Oregon, with a European and Middle East headquarters in Norwich, England. As of 2006, it was the largest natural potato chip brand in the United States.
The company, founded in 1977 by Cameron Healy as the "N. S. Khalsa Company", was previously sold to Lion Capital in 2006 and was owned by Diamond Foods from 2010 to 2016. In February 2016, Snyder's-Lance finalized its purchase of Diamond Foods. Snyder's-Lance (and its Kettle Foods division) was purchased by the Campbell Soup Company in March 2018.
History
The company was founded by Cameron Healy in 1977 as the "N. S. Khalsa Company", after Healy's Sikh name, Nirbhao Singh Khalsa. It produced its first potato chips in 1982.
In 1988, following a motorcycle trip taken by the company's founder and his son, Kettle Foods established a UK branch in a converted shoe factory in Norwich, England; the branch moved five years later to its current UK home, a newly built factory on the outskirts of Norwich.
In 2003, the company installed the largest solar array in the Pacific Northwest with the goal of using more green energy at its Salem plant.
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