Tyrrells plans to give vegetable crisps the chop
TyrrellsKP Snacks is proposing to close its manufacturing site for Tyrrells in Staffordshire, due to plans to discontinue its vegetable crisps.
The British snacks giant said it had entered into a consultation process over Tyrrells-brand vegetable crisps following a "sustained decline in demand and the loss of key export volumes".
KP Snacks, which acquired the Herefordshire-based crisps company in 2018, is now proposing to close the Uttoxeter site where its non-potato products are manufactured.
A spokesperson for the company said Tyrrells potato crisps were not affected and continued to perform strongly.
They added: "While no final decisions have been made, we appreciate this is an uncertain time for our colleagues at Uttoxeter and we are supporting them throughout the consultation process.
"Should the proposal progress, we will explore any ways to reduce or avoid redundancies where possible."
Tyrrells was founded by Herefordshire potato farmer William Chase in 2002, with the crisps made in a converted potato shed in his father's potato farm in Leominster.
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