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Frito-Lay North America, Inc. doing business as Frito-Lay, (/ˈfriːtoʊ leɪ/; FREE-toh-LAY) is an American food company that manufactures, markets, and sells snack foods. It began in the early 1930s as two separate companies, the Frito Company and H.W. Lay & Company, that merged in 1961. Frito-Lay itself merged with the Pepsi-Cola Company in 1965 to create…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frito-Lay | Area served | Worldwide | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Brands | Lay's | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Brands | Fritos | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Brands | Doritos | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Brands | Smartfood | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Brands | Ruffles | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Brands | Cheetos | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Brands | Sun Chips | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Brands | Tostitos | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Brands | Rold Gold | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Brands | Funyuns | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Brands | Kurkure | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Brands | Uncle Chipps | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Brands | Miss Vickie's | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Founded | September 1961; 64 years ago (1961-09) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Founders | Charles Elmer Doolin Herman Lay | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Headquarters | Plano, Texas, U.S. | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Industry | Food | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Key people | Steven Williams (CEO) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Parent | PepsiCo | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Predecessors | The Frito Company H.W. Lay & Company | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Products | Snack foods | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Revenue | US$15.798 billion (2017) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Trade name | Frito-Lay | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Type | Subsidiary | 1.00 | infobox |
| Frito-Lay | Website | fritolay.com | 1.00 | infobox |
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