Popchips

Original flavor Popchips

Popchips is a brand of processed potato and corn products marketed as similar to potato chips. They are manufactured by processing potato starch at high pressure and temperature, in a process similar to that used for puffed rice cakes.[1]

History

Keith Belling is a co-founder and CEO of Popchips. Belling teamed up with Patrick Turpin, and created a new popped chip.[2] The company created a chip that utilizes potato and corn products that are cooked at a high pressure and temperature.[1] Turpin co-founded Popchips, Inc., and serves as its President.

In November, 2015 David Ritterbush was named CEO of the company, replacing Paul Davis.[3]

Recognition

The company was rated by Forbes as among America's top 20 most promising companies in 2011.[4] Forbes also reported that investors in the company included Ashton Kutcher, David Ortiz, Jillian Michaels, Katy Perry and Sean Combs.[5]

Celebrities

Ashton Kutcher was the first Celebrity to endorse the company, with 13 million followers on Twitter. Kutcher boosted the publicity of Popchips.[6] Kutcher wrote his first check to Popchips inc. in 2010.[7] In 2012, Popchips also gained another celebrity endorser, Katy Perry. Since 2012, Perry featured in advertisements and also helped to launch her own flavor of Popchips, Katy's Kettle Corn.[8]

Controversy

Popchips received widespread criticism for their May 2012 video ad campaign featuring actor Ashton Kutcher.[9] The campaign featured Kutcher as an Indian man 'looking for love' in a dating ad-style spoof. Kutcher's use of brown-face make up and a stereotypical Indian accent was deemed racially insensitive and offensive and received backlash from online viewers and members of the Indian-American community.[10] While Kutcher has yet to acknowledge the criticism, the video was pulled and a spokesperson for Popchips stated that the dating parody was 'created to provoke a few laughs and was never intended to stereotype or offend anyone.'[11]

Awards

Since 2007, Popchips has won the following awards:[12]

Distribution

Popchips provides its snack through a network of retail stores including Target, Safeway, and Walgreens[13] in the United States, Canada, and also online.

Products

Popchips are produced in a number of flavors in addition to the original flavor:

Popchips

Potato

Tortilla

Corn

Nutritional Information

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/08/pop-chips-how-are-they-made-snacks-lowfat.html
  2. ↑ "Our Story". Popchips. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  3. ↑ Nunes, Keith. "Popchips names new c.e.o.". Food Business News. Retrieved 10 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "#4 Popchips". Forbes magazine. 30 November 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
  5. ↑ Nelson, Brett. "Top 20 Americas Most Promising Companies". Forbes magazine. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
  6. ↑ Casserly, Meghan. "Popchips: The Next $1 Billion Snack Food Or Just Full Of Hot Air?". Forbes. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  7. ↑ Hong, Nicole. "New Kind of Chip Pops on the Scene". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  8. ↑ Mullen, Katelyn (25 July 2012). "Katy Perry Popchips: Singer Signs On For Latest Celebrity Endorsement". Huffington Post. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  9. ↑ http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/05/03/pop-chips-pulls-offensive-ashton-kutcher-ad/
  10. ↑ http://edition.cnn.com/2012/06/29/opinion/ling-kutcher-apology/
  11. ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2138671/Ashton-Kutchers-racist-commercial-pulled-backlash-horrified-viewers.html
  12. ↑ "Awards". PopChips. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  13. ↑ Greenwald, David. "Katy Perry Announces Her Own Popchips Flavor". Billboard. Retrieved 20 November 2013.
  14. ↑ "Popchips". Retrieved 15 November 2013.
  15. ↑ "Popchips". Retrieved 15 November 2013.
  16. ↑ "Popchips". Retrieved 15 November 2013.

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