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[edit] Nobby's

nobbys are owned by smiths not walkers so i removed them from the list of products —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.192.149.37 (talk) 18:21, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Frito Lay

This is not the parent company of Walker's, Walker's is it's own brad it is not a subsidy otherwise they would not be able to advertise that they use 100 per-cent British potatose. Thanks! 83.104.51.181 (talk) 18:07, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Walkers is a subsidairy of Frito-Lay which is in turn part of Pepsi-Co just because they are American owned does not mean they can not use British potatoes Penrithguy (talk) 12:50, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] PepsiCo

I'm not sure as to the ownership of Walkers by PepsiCo - it's listed at the PepsiCo website: [1], [2]

I've left out any mention of it until someone can add it. violet/riga (t) 20:17, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Yep, they are owned by Pepsico, I've added the details to the article. Twrist 23:39, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The logo is pretty similar to Pepsi too anyway

[edit] Walkers advert

Does anyone know the year the Walkers advert featuring Gary Lineker and Paul Gascoigne was first shown? Checked Google and Google Groups, but couldn't find anything. Earliest mention I could find on Google Groups was 1998, but I thought it was much earlier. BillyH 21:43, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

I believe it was '95, but I've not got a reference for that yet. violet/riga (t) 21:48, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
1995 would be the year that Lineker started working for them, so that sets the early-limit of any advertising [3]. Ojw 18:05, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] IPod competition

Walkers are running a competition at the moment, to give away one expensive prize every 5 minutes through september

Is that 11M products/per figure for the UK market? If so, it would seem to imply a 1 in 38000 chance of winning, assuming every "product" had an entry code, everyone entered, and the entries were spread out.

[edit] Flavours

Someone's listed Crack cocaine as a flavour. If no-one can confirm this then it remains deleted. Ppk01 10:50, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Walkers market domination

Over the course of 30 years, Walkers has gone from being one of several crisp makers with a regional base (Tudor, Smiths, etc) to being the dominant maker everywhere in the UK. This was mentioned in The Economist a while back as an indicator of market concentration. Surely this ought to be mentioned in the article? ProhibitOnions 10:48, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bacon Fries - only remaining Smiths branded product?

I put this in the article but I'm not sure. I see Salt 'n Shake is Walkers now, so I can only assume so. AFAIK the packaging on Bacon Fries/Scampi Fries/the cheese equivalent that no-one sells hasn't changed at all since they started foil-wrapping them. The Smiths logo looks the same as what still appeared on Walkers crisps and other Walkers/Smiths stuff sold in the early 1990s. I hope they never change :) --Zilog Jones 01:10, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flavours

The list of current Sensations flavours includes both Sea Salt and Sea Salt With Cracked Black Peppers. The Sea Salt one isn't listed on the Walkers' website ( http://walkers.corpex.com/CR15p5/products.asp?snacktypeid=39 ), although Thai Sweet Chilli still is. Does anyone know which list is correct?

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Walkers.PNG

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BetacommandBot 04:55, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Other Flavours?

Any one remember they had names of english footballers during the end of the 90's?

Cheese & Owen Smokey Beckham Salt & Liniker

i think there were more but i can't remember must have been for the euro 2000 or world cup 98? should this be added?

Madboy2005172.142.66.224 18:16, 20 September 2007 (UTC)