Guys Snack Foods is a snack foods manufacturer and distributor based in Overland Park, Kansas with a target market being the Midwest.
It claims to have been the first company to sell barbecue flavored potato chips. The company's biggest product line are its potato chips, but it also offers cheese puffs, tortilla chips and pretzels.
The company was founded by Guy and Francis Caldwell in 1938 as "Guy's Nut and Candy Company" as they sold roasted peanuts throughout the Kansas City area.
At one time the company had 1,000 employees in its Liberty, Missouri plant. It was sold to Borden Food Corporation in 1979. Borden sold it in 1994. It went into bankruptcy in 2001.
It has since emerged from bankruptcy and is now based in Kansas.
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