Pringles is a brand

Brand

The American Marketing Association defines a brand as a "Name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers."...

 of potato

Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family . The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well as the edible tuber. In the region of the Andes, there are some other closely related cultivated potato species...

 and wheat

Wheat

Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...

 based snacks originally developed by Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble

Procter & Gamble is a Fortune 500 American multinational corporation headquartered in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio and manufactures a wide range of consumer goods....

. Pringles are sold in more than 140 countries and have yearly sales of more than . In April 2011, P&G agreed to the $2.35 billion sale of the brand to Diamond Foods of California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, more than tripling the size of Diamond's snack business.
Pringles brand potato crisps were first sold in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 in October 1968, and distributed internationally by the mid-1970s.