Herr's Snacks

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Herr's
Type	potato chips
Country of origin	1947 owner Jim Herr purchased chip company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania - United States
Markets	Eastern United States
Website	Herr's - Official website

Herr's is a Nottingham, Pennsylvania-based brand of snack foods, most notably potato chips. While their products are sold throughout the Eastern United States, their stronghold is the Mid-Atlantic region.

1 History
2 Products
3 Trivia
4 References
5 External links

[edit] History

In 1946, James S. Herr, then twenty-one, purchased a small potato chip company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.^[1] In 1958, the company introduced flavored potato chips, and in 1974, switched to foil packaging from the traditional glassine bags. The 1970's and 80's saw a growth in the snack food industry which prompted an expansion in the variety of products being manufactured, including corn chips, tortilla chips, and pretzels. The 1980's also saw the addition of the Herr Angus Farm, a cattle farm which made use of potato waste products.

[edit] Products

Herr's produces a wide variety of snack foods, including potato chips, pretzels, tortilla chips, cheese curls, popcorn, and onion rings. They produce, as of October 2007, twenty-five different potato chip varieties, including Old Bay, cheese steak, ketchup, and Sour Cream & Onion, in addition to more traditional varieties such as BBQ, sour cream and onion, and salt and vinegar.

Herr's potato chips are sold in distinctive foil packaging.

[edit] Trivia

The company mascot is Chipper the Chipmunk.
The company slogan is "Make Herr's Yours"
The factory in Nottingham, Pennsylvania is open to tours by the general public.
A subplot of "Grief Counseling," the fourth episode of the third season of The Office, concerns Karen and Jim's quest for a bag of Herr's salt and vinegar chips.