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Lay's

Consumer Staples

Lay's is an American snack foods brand of potato chips and condiments, produced in a range of flavors and sold across North America and many other countries. The name derives from Lay, the surname of the founder of the company originally formed in 1938 to produce potato chips.

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Classification
Sector (GICS)
Consumer Staples 1
Offering Kind
Product 1
Launch Year
1934 2
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Entity identity for the business product-service.sector GICS enum value this member already carries, per the phase 3 entity-backed browse bucket pilot (docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md, owner decision 2026-09-28 on business product-service.sector, w-bucketpilot-gics-0929). The sector fact itself, with its own citation, remains on the member entity unchanged; this edge only adds the durable entity identity the enum value already names.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Lay's
Wikipedia
  • Introduction, GICS sector classification
    Lay's is an American snack foods brand of potato chips and condiments that produce products in a range of different flavors that are sold in North America and various other countries across the world.
  • Introduction, offering kind classification
    Lay's is an American snack foods brand of potato chips and condiments that produce products in a range of different flavors that are sold in North America and various other countries across the world.
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2. Wikidata: Lay's
Wikidata Q723513 P571 (inception), matched by label plus product/brand/service class (w-bbfill-business-other-0926, manual resolve after WDQS 504 timeouts)View the Source
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