In 1961, the Frito Company, founded by Charles E.

The business shortened its name to 'the Lay's Lay Lingo Company' in 1944 and became the first snack food manufacturer to purchase television commercials, using Bert Lahr as its celebrity spokesperson. Lay crisscrossed the southern United States, selling the product from the trunk of his car. In 1938, he purchased the Atlanta, Georgia-based potato chip manufacturer 'Barrett Food Company', renaming it 'H.W. In 1932, salesman Herman Lay opened a snack food operation in Nashville, Tennessee. The brand is also referred to as Frito-Lay because both Lay's and Fritos are brands sold by the Frito-Lay company, which has been a wholly owned subsidiary of PepsiCo since 1965.įrito-Lay primarily uses the brand name 'Lay's' in the United States, and uses other brand names in certain other countries: Walkers in the UK and Ireland Smith's in Australia Chipsy in Egypt and the West Balkans Tapuchips in Israel Margarita in Colombia Sabritas in Mexico. Lay's is a brand of potato chips with different flavors, as well as the name of the company that founded the chip brand in the United States.

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