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S TA T E O F T H E I N D U S T R Y R E P O R T

Top Other Salted Snack Brands
Brand / Vendor Dollar Sales ($mil) Dollar Sales % Change 8.0 (4.3) (4.7) 3.2 NA 3.7 9.0 0.4 30.1 27.1 25.8 0.2 11.8 2.6 7.8 3.6 (10.1) (4.3) 148.6 (12.5) (0.9) (0.6) (5.9) 7.7 Unit Sales (mil) 446.8 47.9 53.9 62.3 10.7 42.9 26.3 18.2 14.0 14.0 27.1 8.0 6.3 4.5 4.1 3.4 7.5 6.6 3.5 3.9 4.5 3.5 2.8 6.9 Unit Sales Volume Volume Sales % Change Sales % Change (mil lb) 2.3 (3.0) (7.3) (0.6) NA (8.4) 3.7 (3.4) 18.7 23.1 9.4 0.4 4.5 5.6 13.5 1.6 (9.1) (3.8) 148.3 (3.8) (2.5) 0.6 (8.9) (0.6) 256.2 69.2 33.0 37.4 13.4 7.7 15.3 9.3 4.2 9.8 6.5 4.4 4.1 1.9 2.3 1.4 3.1 2.2 1.5 1.2 0.9 1.8 0.8 1.4 5.7 (5.8) (4.7) (1.4) NA (1.2) 12.5 (3.1) 30.4 19.8 17.4 (1.6) 12.5 4.5 6.6 1.8 (9.0) (8.1) 158.4 (10.2) (2.1) 1.2 (8.9) 9.1

Other Salted Snacks (No Nuts) - total 1,323.6 All Frito-Lay products/Frito-Lay North America, Inc. 340.0 SunChips/Frito-Lay North America, Inc. 170.8 General Mills Chex Mix/General Mills, Inc. 141.4 Frito-Lay/Frito-Lay North America, Inc. 70.8 Funyuns/Frito-Lay North America, Inc. 65.2 Private label 58.5 Munchies/Frito-Lay North America, Inc. 51.6 Pirate's Booty/Pirate Brands 47.5 Sunshine Cheez-It/Keebler Co. 41.6 Chester's/Frito-Lay North America, Inc. 33.9 Gardetto's/General Mills, Inc. 19.9 Utz/Utz Quality Foods, Inc. 18.3 Terra/The Hain Celestial Group 17.8 Wise/Wise Foods, Inc. 13.2 EatSmart Naturals/Snyder's-Lance, Inc. 12.3 Pringles Super Stack/Procter & Gamble 11.9 Pik-Nik/Pik-Nik Foods, USA 11.0 Sensible Portions/The Hain Celestial Group 10.2 RiceWorks/Shearer's Foods, Inc. 8.9 Calbee/Calbee America 8.3 General Mills Chex Mix Select/General Mills, Inc. 8.1 Sunshine Right Bites Cheez-It/Keebler Co. 7.7 Andy Capp's/ConAgra Foods, Inc. 7.5
SOURCE: INFOSCAN REVIEWS TOTAL US — SUPERMARKETS, DRUGSTORES AND MASS MERCHANDISERS (EXCLUDING WAL-MART) 52 WEEKS ENDING MARCH 18, 2012

DIPS, SALSA AND SPREADS

Dipping for Extra Flavor
For the first time, this year’s report includes refrigerated spreads, a category whose sales increased 9.5% during the 52week period ending March 18. Refrigerated flavored spreads such as hummus are often consumed with other salty snacks such as pretzels or corn, pita or tortilla chips. In fact, Sabra Dipping Co., White Plaines, NY, the manufacturer of the No. 1 brand of flavored spreads, offers a single-serve container of its classic hummus with pretzels. Sabra introduced a variety of dipping products this past year, including Greek yogurt veggie dips, guacamole, salsa and new flavors of hummus. Sales of its refrigerated spreads rose 23% this past year to more than $226 million annually, which means its brand accounts for nearly 54% of all sales in the flavored spreads segment. After a disappointing year in 2010, when the 2011 State of the Industry Report noted that salsa sales had declined 4.2%, salsa sales stabilized this past year with sales up 0.6%. On the Border salsas from Truco Enterprises, Dallas, TX, had the greatest sales growth among the top salsa brands. As for other dipping segments, shelf-stable dips experienced a 4.4% decline in sales this past year, while dry dip mixes
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