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Tyrrells plans to give vegetable crisps the chop
KP Snacks plans to end Tyrrells vegetable crisps due to falling demand and export losses, initiating consultation on closing the Uttoxeter factory and potential redundancies.
- On 27 February 2026, KP Snacks proposed to discontinue Tyrrells vegetable crisps and close the Uttoxeter site, following 'a sustained decline in demand'.
- Citing sales and export trends, KP Snacks said the plans follow a sustained decline in demand and the loss of key export volumes affecting Tyrrells vegetable crisps.
- At Dovefields on Dovefields Industrial Estate, Tyrrells vegetable crisps are made while Tyrrells potato crisps are unaffected, and KP Snacks said it would seek to minimise redundancies among factory staff.
- KP Snacks says it will support Uttoxeter staff throughout the consultation process while exploring ways to reduce or avoid possible redundancies if the proposal progresses.
- Tyrrells' origins trace to Herefordshire potato farmer William Chase in 2002, who sold it to Langholm Capital in 2008 for £40 million before KP Snacks' owner Intersnack acquired it in 2018.
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