<Tr> <Th> Previous owners </Th> <Td> Procter & Gamble (1967--2012) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> pringles.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Pringles is an American brand of potato and wheat - based stackable snack chips . Originally developed by Procter & Gamble (P&G) in 1967 and marketed as "Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chips", the brand was sold to Kellogg's in 2012 . As of 2011 Pringles are sold in more than 140 countries, and in 2012 was the fourth most popular snack brand after Lay's, Doritos and Cheetos (all manufactured by Frito - Lay), with 2.2% market share globally . </P> <P> In 1956, Procter & Gamble (P&G) assigned a task to chemist Fredric Baur to develop a new kind of potato chips to address consumer complaints about broken, greasy, and stale chips, as well as air in the bags . Baur spent 2 years developing saddle - shaped chips from fried dough and invented the tubular can as the chips container . However he could not figure out how to make the chips taste good and he eventually was pulled off the task to work on another brand . In the mid-1960s, another P&G researcher, Alexander Liepa of Montgomery, Ohio, restarted Baur's work and succeeded in improving the chip taste . Even though Baur was the true inventor of the Pringles chip, Liepa's name is on the patent . Gene Wolfe, a mechanical engineer - author known for science fiction and fantasy novels, developed the machine that cooks them . </P>

What manufacturer introduced pringles potato chips in 1969