# Popular UK crisp brand plunges into administration – in business since 1972

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/popular-uk-crisp-brand-plunges-into-administration-in-business-since-1972/
- Published: 2026-11-04T14:32:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-04T17:41:36+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Express (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2263270/uk-crisp-brand-plunges-into-administration
- Topics: UK, World

## Key points

- Glens of Antrim has ceased trading after entering administration.
- Most of its 95 employees have been made redundant.
- Cost pressures and cash-flow problems preceded its collapse.

## Summary

Northern Ireland potato supplier and crisp maker Glens of Antrim Potatoes Ltd has ceased trading after entering administration. The collapse ends a business founded in 1972 and brings job losses for most of its staff, affecting communities in Ballymena and Cushendall.

The company supplied potatoes across the UK and Ireland before launching Glens of Antrim Crisps in 2015, with products sold in Tesco and Sainsbury’s. It employed 95 people; the vast majority have been made redundant, while a small number remain to assist administrators appointed on 21 September. Cost pressures across the agri-food supply chain contributed to serious cash-flow difficulties, and efforts to secure refinancing or investment failed.

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