Frito-Lay is the convenient food division of PepsiCo. It is an international company that markets and sells corn and potato chips and other snack food items. It was formed in 1961 as a result of the merger between The Fritos Company and Atlanta-based H.W. Lay & Company. Frito-Lay has a staff of more than 44,000 employees and over 30 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States. The company markets and sells its products under the brand names of Lay's, Fritos, Cheetos, Baken-ETS, Ruffles, Doritos, Funyuns, Tostitos, Baked Lay's, Sunchips, Munchies, Oberto and Rold Gold. It offers a variety of products, such as cheese-flavored snacks, tortilla chips, onion-flavored rings, natural and organic snacks, cookies and meat snacks.
J.M. Smucker Chip Plant is a manufacturing facility for The J. M. Smucker Company, the leading marketer and manufacturer of fruit spreads, peanut butter, shortening and oils, ice cream toppings, sweetened condensed milk and health and natural foods beverages in North America. Its family of brands includes Smucker's , Jif , Crisco, Pillsbury, Eagle Brand, R.W. Knudsen Family, Hungry Jack, White Lily and Martha White in the United States, along with Robin Hood, Five Roses and Bick's in Canada. The company remains rooted in the basic beliefs of quality, people, ethics, growth and independence established by its founder and namesake more than a century ago. Since 1998, the company has appeared on Fortune Magazine's annual listing of the 100 Best Companies to Work For in the United States, ranking number one in 2004.
