BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Utz® Quality Foods, LLC, the U.S.’s largest privately held snack food company, today announced the completion of the acquisition of Golden Enterprises, Inc. by Utz ...

Utz Brands has announced it is closing the company’s Golden Flake Birmingham manufacturing facility in July. The decision means about 175 employees will be laid off from the 275 member workforce.

Golden Flake, a brand of snack foods long associated with University of Alabama athletics, will no longer make its products in Alabama, according to The Associated Press. Pennsylvania-based Utz Brands ...