Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods

History

Humpty Dumpty Potato Chip Company, Inc., was founded in 1947 in Scarborough, Maine, United States, by George Robinson and Norman Cole, producing ketchup-flavoured and sour-cream-and-clam-flavoured chips, among others.

The company was acquired by Borden, Inc., in February 1989.

In January 2000, it was then sold to the Canadian firm Small Fry, formally adopting the name Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods Inc.

In 2006, the company was acquired in a takeover bid by Old Dutch Foods, a Minnesota-based snack food company. After the acquisition, Humpty Dumpty potato chip products were rebranded as Old Dutch potato chips. Old Dutch Foods kept the Humpty Dumpty label, and still sells all their flavors of chips and snacks in the USA. In Canada, Humpty Dumpty's potato chip line were rebranded "Old Dutch", as it was already an established brand of potato chip in other parts of Canada; they kept the "Humpty Dumpty" name for its other snacks.

The company closed its Quebec-based Montreal Humpty Dumpty plant on September 27, 2013; that plant started operating in 1964. Four other Canadian plants, in other provinces, are unaffected.

References

References

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5. https://montrealgazette.com/business/Lachine+Dutch+snack+plant+close/8351869/story.html{{Dead link. (December 2018)