Frito-Lay

About

Frito-Lay North America, Inc., doing business as Frito-Lay, is the American snack food maker formed in 1961 by the merger of the Frito Company and H.W. Lay & Company and a wholly owned subsidiary of PepsiCo since 1965.^[1] GLEIF lists the Delaware corporation under file number 2202650 with LEI 549300BNTAYG0B4NE434, created 1989-07-20; the LEI registration has lapsed.^[2] Packs name it as Frito-Lay, Inc., Plano, Texas.^[3] The UPC prefix 0028400 is attributed to it because USDA names Frito-Lay as brand owner of a barcode under it.^[4]

Relations

• Owned by PepsiCo^[1] sourced
  wholly owned subsidiary since the 1965 merger

Referenced by

• Distributes Cheetos Crunchy Flamin' Hot Limón 1 oz in United States verified
  "Distributed By Frito-Lay, Inc., Plano, TX 75024" on the maker page; "Frito-Lay, Inc. Plano, TX 75024-4099" printed on the 2019 back panel (^off-ingr)
• Inferred: Registered GS1 prefix used by Cheetos Crunchy Flamin' Hot Limón 1 oz derived
  prefix 0028400; USDA brand_owner "Frito-Lay Company" and Frito-Lay, Inc. printed as distributor (^off-ingr); no public register names the licensee

Also known as

• Frito-Lay North America, Inc. en
• Frito-Lay, Inc. en

References

1. ↑ Frito-Lay Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-13. CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia contributors.
2. ↑ GLEIF LEI record 549300BNTAYG0B4NE434: Frito-Lay North America, Inc. GLEIF. registry. Accessed 2026-09-13. Record: 549300BNTAYG0B4NE434. legalName, jurisdiction US-DE, registeredAs 2202650, creationDate 1989-07-20, registration status LAPSED.
3. ↑ Open Food Facts photo 2: back panel with ingredient statement and distributor block Open Food Facts. pack. Published 2019-10-29. Accessed 2026-09-13. back panel; right edge of the ingredient list cropped. CC BY-SA 3.0. Open Food Facts contributors.
4. ↑ USDA FoodData Central, Branded Foods (LI), fdc_id 2668360, version 2023-11-16 U.S. Department of Agriculture. registry. Published 2023-11-16. Accessed 2026-09-13. Record: 2668360. brand_owner, ingredients, serving, nutrients per 100 g. CC0. Upstream: Label Insight.