Jeff Clemmons holds up a bag of Golden Flake potato chips from the last day of production at the Birmingham factory on June 9, 2023. Chips from that day are stamped with the expiration date Oct. 16.

Utz Brands has announced it is closing the company’s Golden Flake Birmingham manufacturing facility in July. The decision means about 175 employees will be laid off from the 275 member workforce.

Golden Flake's potato chips, tortilla chips, corn chips, cheese curls. fried pork skins and other snacks will continue to be sold in Alabama and throughout the Southeast, just produced elsewhere ...

For generations of children, school field trips to the Golden Flake potato chip factory in Birmingham were a rite of passage. Skip to main content. You ...

Utz bought Golden Enterprises, the former owner of Golden Flake, for $141 million in 2016. The brand was founded in 1923 in the basement of a north Birmingham grocery store.