industry snack food founded 1923 founder mose lischkoff and frank mosher headquarters birmingham alabama united states area served alabama mississippi georgia florida tennessee arkansas louisiana south carolina kentucky texas oklahoma missouri virginia north carolina indiana key people mark w. mccutcheon chairman of the board paul r. bates executive vice president david a. jones executive vice president patty townsend chief financial officer revenue 137.3 million usd 2013 1 net income 1.1 million usd 2013 1 number of employees 800 1 parent golden enterprises slogan the south s original potato chip website golden flake snack foods golden flake snack foods a wholly owned subsidiary of golden enterprises is a producer of potato chips tortilla chips corn chips cheese curls fried pork skins and other snack foods in the southern united states . 2 contents 1 history 2 operations 3 references 4 external links history edit the golden flake brand originally known as magic city foods 3 was established in the 1920s by mose lischkoff and frank mosher in a birmingham alabama grocery store basement . the company changed its name from magic city foods to golden flake inc. in 1956 after having been bought and sold by several different owners . 4 in 1968 the company went public changing its name again to golden enterprises inc. it is still publicly traded today listed in the nasdaq under the symbol gldc . 5 one of its most famous spokesman was paul bear bryant the legendary head football coach for the alabama crimson tide . 6 for years the potato chips along with coca cola were marketed with the slogan great pair says the bear . 7 8 on july 19 2016 golden flake announced that it was being acquired by utz quality foods for 12.00 per share in cash representing a 71 % premium over the average 30 day trading price of 7.00 . 9 operations edit in 2010 john s. stein retired as chairman of the board of golden enterprises . in honor of his many years of leadership stein was named chairman emeritus of the golden enterprises board of directors . mark mccutcheon was elected as the new chairman . 10 references edit a b c 2013 golden enterprises annual report pdf . golden enterprises inc. retrieved january 1 2014 . new potato chips from golden flake coated with caffeine . the decatur daily . decatur al. associated press . september 3 2007 . retrieved january 7 2014 . burhans dirk august 18 2008 . crunch a history of the great american potato chip . madison wi university of wisconsin press . p. 80 . isbn 978 029922770 8 . retrieved january 7 2014 . burnett emmett october 2013 . top crunch of millions turns 90 ; ninety years old this year golden enterprises is master of the south s favorite chip leader in a feast of snack foods producing sales of over 136 million . . business alabama . retrieved january 7 2014 . poe ryan july 18 2013 . rising costs take bite out of golden flake earnings . birmingham business journal . retrieved january 7 2014 . nicholson gilbert february 28 2000 . coca cola golden flake consider selling tapes of bryant s show . sports business daily . retrieved january 7 2014 . theibert philip june 8 2013 . potato chip economics everything you need to know about business clearly and concisely explained . new alresford john hunt publishing ltd. isbn 978 178279034 1 . retrieved january 7 2014 . nicholson gilbert february 27 2000 . great pair hoping to bring back the bear . birmingham business journal . retrieved january 7 2014 . golden enterprises inc. and utz quality foods inc. announced that they entered into a definitive merger agreement goldenflake.com golden enterprises s website https goldenflake.com golden enterprises inc utz quality foods inc announced entered definitive merger agreement retrieved september 13 2016 . golden enterprises announces board changes business . july 22 2010 . retrieved january 2 2014 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to golden flake . official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title golden flake & oldid 742636937 categories companies based in birmingham alabamacompanies established in 1923brand name snack foodssnack food manufacturers of the united statescompanies listed on nasdaq1923 establishments in alabamaamerican companies established in 1923food and drink companies established in 1923hidden categories commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages add links this page was last modified on 4 october 2016 at 21 46 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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