The Bachman family would still use its Reading and Hyde Park Facilities under the name Savor Street Foods Inc. In 2012, Utz Brands acquired The Bachman Company with Utz buying the intellectual property rights, distribution and Ephrata manufacturing facility. In 2011 Utz Brands also acquired the Wachusett Potato Chip Company in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, enabling the production of the Utz brand in New England. Management of Zappe remained in place after the acquisition. This acquisition included Zapp's plants in Louisiana, California, and Pennsylvania thereby making Utz a national snack food manufacturer overnight. In 2011 Utz Brands acquired Zappe Endeavors and its affiliated entities which manufacture and market Zapp's, Dirty's and California Chips brand potato chips. In 2004, sales reached $235 million annually, spurred in part by market expansion, a targeted advertising campaign in the New York City metropolitan region and a 2001 Consumer Reports taste test ranking Utz as the best tasting potato chip in the nation.Ī 2010 plan to merge Utz with rival Snyder's of Hanover was blocked by the U.S. As the 21st century approached, Utz employed 1,300 with annual revenues exceeding $150 million.

By 1999, a new public website also allowed customers to purchase Utz products for at-home delivery. In 1996, the company celebrated its 75th anniversary. By the middle of the decade, annual sales of Utz products topped $100 million and its employee base had reached 1,000. In the summer of 1992, Utz added a third pretzel oven and began baking pretzels around the clock. In the late 1980s, sales of Utz pretzels began growing by 20 percent annually and, by 1991, pretzel sales comprised almost 10 percent of total revenue. Utz's largest production facility and home of its current administrative headquarters was completed in 1983. Rice retired in 1978, and his son Michael became company president, while Arlene Utz Rice remained as the company's chairman of the board. The company purchased two more Hanover-based production facilities during the 1970s. Salie Utz died in 1965 and Bill died in 1968, at which time Rice became president of the company. In 1949, post-war success allowed the company to build a new production facility on 10 acres (40,000 m 2) in Hanover. In 1938, Francis Xavier 'F.X.' Rice joined the Utz Company after marrying William and Salie's daughter Arlene Utz. In 1938, production was boosted with the purchase of an automatic fryer capable of producing 300 pounds of chips per hour. Success soon allowed the couple to move operations to a small concrete building in the family's backyard. Salie cooked the chips and Bill delivered them to local grocery stores and farmers’ markets in the Hanover, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland, areas. The hand-operated equipment used at the time produced approximately 50 pounds of potato chips per hour. Utz Brands began in 1921 as 'Hanover Home Brand Potato Chips' when William and Salie Utz began making potato chips out of their home in Hanover, Pennsylvania, with an initial investment of $300.

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