Backer's Potato Chip Co.

An open and closed case; Casino Red Northumberland Street Out & ABOUT.(Features)
Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England); 11/28/2008; 1018 words; ...opened Casino Red's Scarlett Restaurant...Huddersfield casino's much-heralded...with the financial backers pulling out of...with crushed new potatoes. I plumped for...stack of chunky chips and half a beefsteak...lockwood@examiner.co.uk Rating Venue...the Casino's ...

Backer kept firm thriving ; Potato chip chief died on Saturday.
Columbia Daily Tribune; 4/7/2008; 616 words; Bill Backer, chairman of Backer's Potato Chips in Fulton, died...leading Backer's for more than 50...family-owned potato chip company in Missouri...manager for Backer's. "He just put his...time for Ford Motor Co. while in Michigan...

Capitol cookout: A chance to listen or `marketing tool'? The Mall of America, trade unions and contractors are throwing a public picnic today outside the Capitol, where their pitch for tax breaks for mall expansion has received a lukewarm response.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 5/9/2007; 1332 words; ...fare - brats, potato salad and chips - but to one legislator...lawmakers the state's gift ban generally...Bloomington, co-chair of the...time when its backers are seeking legislative...ban. If it's almost exclusively...public subsidy. Backers chose the front...

Senate bill would ban obesity lawsuits State legislators say fast food not the problem; critics say provision unnecessary
The Gazette; 1/13/2004; 700 words; ...Whoppers, pizza, potato chips and other junk food, America's collective waistline...thirds of U.S. adults are overweight...blame the nation's restaurants and...on SB20. Even backers of the legislation...leg.state.co.us

Hotel Plan Makes Colorado Springs, Colo., Officials Rethink Convention Center.
The Gazette (Colorado Springs, Colorado) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News); 10/26/2003; 1730 words; ...Convention center backers might have to reduce the project's size or reconsider...The Broadmoor's plan to build its...the city should chip in millions of...facility that would co-exist at the...downtown. "It's riskier to think...a political hot potato for the City Council...