OUR STORY
Founded by Thomas Hutchinson in 1956, our family owned business selects the finest potatoes and uses local ingredients to produce great tasting crisps and snacks for everyone to enjoy a #taytohappy moment!
‘Tayto Castle’, which is over 500 years old is in Tandragee, Co.Armagh. Within the Castle grounds is a closely guarded room where our distinct flavours, including our world-famous Cheese & Onion, are made to the same recipe since the beginning.
Our crisps are enjoyed (and seen) all over the world and we’ve some very famous fans including Jamie Dornan, Eamonn Holmes, Derry Girls, Ant & Dec, Snow Patrol and many more!
FUN FACTS
- Tayto is NI’s leading crisp brand with over 35% market share
- 1 in every 4 packets of crisps sold in Northern Ireland is Tayto Cheese & Onion
- The company was formed in 1956 by the late Thomas Hutchinson
- The company started with a workforce of 6 people
- On our first day of productions 972 packets of crisps were produced
- Tayto now employs over 350 people
- Tayto is capable of producing 1 million packs of crisps & snacks per day
- Tayto uses over 20,000 tons of potatoes each year
- Tayto uses 3000 litres of oil every day in the production of crisps & Snacks
- Tayto's most popular flavour is still cheese & onion
- Tayto’s most popular Snack is Bikers
- Tayto has agents in several countries and exports to the USA, Canada, Japan, Germany, Bahrain, Andorra, with ongoing enquiries from other countries round the world
- Tayto now distributes to 43 different countries around the world via online sales to customers in Brazil, Malaysia, Jamaica, Oman, Syria, Vietnam and many more
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