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Poore Brothers 3


Brothers Don and Jay Poore had worked on potato chip packaging equipment and thought they would strike out on their own. While servicing packaging machines in Pennsylvania, Don and Jay had met a gentleman who knew a lot about making potato chips in small kettles “One Batch at a Time” and he helped them get started. By cutting their chips a little thicker and cooking them in kettles, their product had a serious crunch that no other chip had. In 1983, they started a small chip manufacturing operation outside of Houston with a brand called Groff's of Texas. They sold their Texas business after a few years and decided to move to the Valley of the Sun. In 1986 the brothers founded Poore ...

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buy their products. In order to serve all their Arizona customers they started a distribution company. Today Poore Brothers Distributing is the premier snack food distributor in the State of Arizona.
It was only a matter of time until the products found their way across the Arizona border into California and other states. Eventually Don and Jay licensed the brand and manufacturing process to companies in Minnesota and Tennessee. In the early 1990's, the snack food business began to change with the addition of low fat and baked snack products. So they changed too. They began cooking their product in Sunflower Oil. This oil is low in saturated fat and tastes just as good as their original product that was produced with peanut oil.
In the mid 1990s, the company was getting larger and harder to manage in the hands-on way Don and Jay liked to manage it, so in 1994, they decided to sell Poore Brothers. Since then the owners have taken the company public and opened a new state of ...

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not afraid to create intense and unique flavors. They currently produce ten bold flavors to choose from.
Serious Crunch-Kettle cooking creates the crunch. Regular chips can't match Poore Brothers crunch. Poore Brothers products are the crunchiest, compared to any national brands.
Low in Saturated Fat-They use the most expensive and highest quality oil to manufacture their product. Their chips have only one gram of saturated fat. They are able to achieve this small amount of fat by using a variety of sunflower oil that is low in saturated fat and high in monounsaturates (the good stuff).

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