About the Brand
Pringles, which first launched in October 1968, makes its unique snacks using dried potatoes that are cooked and mashed with just enough water and other wholesome ingredients added to form a smooth potato dough. Then, the dough is cut and placed on Pringle-shaped carriers (for that one-of-a-kind shape), fried, and seasoned just right on one side. Then, using special equipment, they're stacked into the unique Pringles cans.
The Pringles name came about in the late 1960s, when the company made a list of street names from a Cincinnati phone book that began with "P." Pringle Avenue in Finneytown was available for trademark, and its sound appealed to the brand.
The first Pringles were packaged in a tall, cylindrical metal can with a red wrapper. The brand expanded nationally in May 1975. Many different flavors and varieties came and went in the 1970s and 1980s, but the most significant breakthrough occurred in September 1996 with the launch of Fat Free Pringles, with P&G's olestra fat substitute.
Pringles is a member of the Proctor & Gamble family of brands.
About Proctor & Gamble
Two billion times a day, Proctor & Gamble brands touch the lives of people around the world. The company has one of the largest and strongest portfolios of trusted brands in the world, including Pampers, Tide, Ariel, Always, Pantene, Bounty, Folgers, Pringles, Charmin, Downy, Iams, Crest, Actonel, and Olay.
It all started in 1837 when William Procter and James Gamble settled in Cincinnati. Procter quickly established himself as a candle maker, while Gamble apprenticed himself to a soap maker. The two might never have met had they not married sisters, Olivia and Elizabeth Norris, whose father convinced his new sons-in-law to become business partners. In 1837,a bold new enterprise was born: Procter & Gamble. By each pledging $3,596.47 to the new venture, they began selling soap and candles. Twenty-two years later, their business exceeded $1 million in sales. By 1980 that figure would reach $10 billion, and by 1993 the company would generate over $35 billion in revenue.
Product Description
Wanna see your tongue do backflips? Grab a stack of Salt & Vinegar and watch your mouth turn into a circus full of flavor.