Who makes Kirkland Signature Peanut Butter Filled Pretzel Nuggets, 55 oz?
As of July 6, 2026, evidence points to Bay Valley Foods, LLC (TreeHouse Foods) as the manufacturer of Kirkland Signature Peanut Butter Filled Pretzel Nuggets, 55 oz, but no tier 1–3 source names the link directly.
The common claim
What most answers say — and what the evidence supports
The prevailing answer credits the Utz/H.K. Anderson brand - known for peanut-butter-filled pretzel nuggets - and some shoppers also guess Snak King. Neither is confirmed. Food media (Tasting Table) report the Kirkland package carried an 'H.K. Anderson' co-brand that was removed around 2023, and Utz has owned the H.K. Anderson brand since 2020, but those accounts are unsourced and the current jar names no maker. Costco's own catalog manufacturer field instead names Bay Valley Foods, LLC - the private-label subsidiary of TreeHouse Foods - for this exact item, so the evidence points to Bay Valley Foods rather than to Utz or Snak King.
Evidence & sources
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Tier 4
Costco's own product data embedded in the listing names 'BAY VALLEY FOODS, LLC' in its mfName (manufacturer) field for this exact item (SKU 1050557; image asset 1050557-847; feature text 'Peanut Butter Filled Pretzels; 55 oz. Plastic Jar; Packed In The USA'), with a startDate of 2017-11-21. Bay Valley Foods, LLC is the private-label manufacturing subsidiary of TreeHouse Foods, Inc. (FDA food-enforcement records list the firm as 'Bay Valley Foods LLC / TreeHouse Foods, Inc'). Field reliability cross-checks against two known ground truths (Kirkland diapers listing -> 'FIRST QUALITY CONSUMER PR', matching the Bloomberg-confirmed switch; Kirkland AA batteries -> 'DURACELL DISTRIBUTING INC', matching the exec-confirmed attribution). Graded probable, not confirmed: machine-readable catalog data naming a supplier of record, with no press or regulatory record independently naming Bay Valley Foods for this jar. The current package (Costcuisine review) states only that it is packed in the USA and distributed by Costco.
Tier 6
Documents the competing (and prevailing) food-media claim, cited here as context, not adopted: "You can thank the beloved Utz/H.K. Anderson brand for its genius behind the Kirkland Signature peanut butter pretzels" and "Utz purchased the H.K Anderson name back in 2020 and acquired ownership of the brand's acclaimed peanut butter pretzel nuggets." It also reports that after a roughly three-month disappearance in late 2023 the packaging "was updated to remove the H.K. Anderson name," and that "Costco never made an official recall announcement or explained the pretzels' disappearance." Unsourced attribution (tier 6); Costco's own catalog instead names Bay Valley Foods for this item.
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