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Walkers DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-07
Digital Score 0.32 /10 C Walkers - BDS-1000 561
Digital 0.32

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Domain: Digital / Technology
Entity scope: Walkers Snack Foods Limited (Company No. 02333074) is an active UK private limited company, incorporated on 9 January 1989; its registered office is 7th Floor, 1 Station Hill Square, Reading, Berkshire, RG1 1LN. Its direct recorded PSC is PepsiCo Holdings (Company No. 01516531), and PepsiCo’s 2025 subsidiary schedule lists Walkers Snack Foods Limited as a UK-incorporated PepsiCo subsidiary.1, 2, 3 Walkers is within PepsiCo’s EMEA convenient-food portfolio; PepsiCo group-level relationships are marked [PARENT-SCOPE] and are not evidence of a Walkers-specific deployment.4
Compiled: 2026-09-07
Method: Existing audit and supplied updated research memo only.

Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

Walkers does not publish a standalone enterprise-technology estate in the reviewed evidence. The documented October–November 2021 supply disruption followed an unnamed IT-system upgrade and severely affected production or availability of Walkers, Wotsits, Quavers, and Monster Munch; a shorter disruption recurred in July 2022.5, 6, 7, 8 The available reporting does not identify the system or supplier, so the disruption cannot be attributed to an Israeli-origin vendor.5, 6, 7, 8

[PARENT-SCOPE] PepsiCo announced a strategic Microsoft partnership in July 2020 covering migration of its global SAP landscape to Azure and deployment of Microsoft 365 and Teams to approximately 270,000 employees worldwide.9 This remains a PepsiCo-wide relationship, rather than evidence of a Walkers-specific technology contract.9

[PARENT-SCOPE] PepsiCo announced a separate multi-year AWS relationship on 7 May 2025, spanning its global organisation and lines of business, including cloud migration, Amazon Bedrock integration with the internal PepGenX platform, consumer and audience analytics, and proposed digital supply-chain functions.10 The announcement does not identify Walkers, the Leicester plant, a UK workload, or an Israeli AWS region.10

PepsiCo’s FY2025 filing states that the group relies on third parties, including software and cloud-data-service providers, across procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, IT support, and administration; it describes vendor-risk processes and contractual security-control requirements without naming providers.4 Searches of that filing found no textual mention of Wiz, CyberArk, Check Point, Palantir, Project Nimbus, Microsoft, or AWS; this is filing-scoped and does not establish the absence of contracts outside the filing.4

The prior audit identified Imperva Incapsula and Cloudflare on walkers.co.uk through a third-party technology-profile source, alongside Drupal and Microsoft IIS; the updated memo did not independently retest the site, so current deployment status is unknown.11 Imperva was Israeli-founded but was operationally US-based and was acquired by France’s Thales in 2023; under the stated vendor-domicile rule, it does not meet the Israeli-domicile threshold.12, 13

For factory automation at the Leicester site, Walkers’ May 2023 £58 million investment identified Redpack Packaging Machinery as a primary supplier, while earlier facility descriptions referred to Schubert systems.14, 15, 16, 17 No Israeli-domiciled automation vendor was identified. No public evidence identified of an Israeli-domiciled enterprise-software, ERP, logistics, systems-integration, managed-security, or digital-transformation vendor specifically contracted to Walkers’ UK operations.5, 6, 7, 8, 4

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified of Walkers deploying Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometric identification, gait or behavioural analysis, predictive monitoring, workforce surveillance, sentiment monitoring, or retail-analytics technology at its UK factories, distribution sites, or retail activations.18, 19

A 2017 Walkers marketing campaign used a Twitter-activated interactive vending machine; the available source documents an interactive activation, not a biometric deployment.18 Fire-safety and physical-security systems at Leicester were supplied by Midland Fire Security, a UK supplier.19

No public evidence identified that such technology reaches Walkers indirectly through a named managed service, bundled enterprise suite, or third-party platform.4

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

Walkers’ cloud infrastructure, data-residency arrangements, processor allocation, regional hosting, and tenant-routing details are not separately disclosed in the reviewed evidence.4, 10 [PARENT-SCOPE] PepsiCo’s documented cloud relationships include Microsoft Azure for the global SAP landscape and the 2025 AWS arrangement for cloud migration, AI, consumer analytics, and proposed supply-chain functions.9, 10

The AWS announcement does not identify AWS regions, UK consumer-data handling, Israeli routing or storage, or any Walkers workload.10 The prior audit’s Cloudflare observation remains third-party-derived and was not revalidated in the updated research.11

PepsiCo’s FY2025 filing lists an owned manufacturing plant in Lehavim, Israel, under its IB Franchise segment; the filing does not describe that property as a data centre, cloud facility, R&D centre, or Walkers operation.4 no public evidence identified that Walkers operates, leases, or colocates data-centre infrastructure in Israel.4

Israel’s Procurement Administration published a 2022 Project Nimbus RFI concerning cloud productivity and collaboration services; the record does not name Walkers, PepsiCo, or a PepsiCo affiliate.20 Reporting on Project Nimbus and Israeli-state cloud activity concerns Google, Amazon, and other technology providers, not a Walkers or PepsiCo role.21, 22, 23, 24 Accordingly, no verified basis was identified to state that Walkers customer, employee, manufacturing, payment, or web data is stored, processed, routed, or legally accessible in Israel.9, 11, 4, 10 no public evidence identified of Walkers or PepsiCo participating in Project Nimbus or providing Israeli sovereign-cloud, hosting, resilience, or data-residency services to Israeli state or military institutions.4, 20

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

No public evidence identified of Walkers holding a contract, partnership, service agreement, supply relationship, or technology-sharing arrangement with the Israeli Ministry of Defence, IDF, intelligence agencies, police, or another Israeli state-security body.4, 25, 20

No public evidence identified that Walkers commercial technology was deployed by Israeli military, intelligence, law-enforcement, settlement-security, or other state-security actors.4, 26, 27 no public evidence identified of Walkers developing, licensing, selling, or maintaining offensive-cyber capabilities, exploit tools, digital weapons systems, or purpose-built kinetic-targeting systems.4

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

No public evidence identified of Walkers deploying AI or machine-learning systems of Israeli origin in UK manufacturing, supply-chain, marketing, surveillance, or retail operations.4, 10

[PARENT-SCOPE] PepsiCo’s May 2025 AWS announcement verifies integration of PepGenX with Amazon Bedrock and use of AWS for consumer-personalisation and proposed predictive-maintenance and supply-chain work.10 The source does not connect those systems to Walkers, Israeli state bodies, Israeli or occupied-territory data, military applications, or Israeli-origin technology.10

[PARENT-SCOPE] PepsiCo participated in the 2018 JVP Play platform, involving Israeli AI and deep-learning startups alongside other multinational corporate partners; the available reports confirm the platform and mentorship initiative but do not identify a PepsiCo, Walkers, or UK deployment.28, 29 The initiative’s continuing status is unknown.28, 29

[PARENT-SCOPE] PepsiCo’s 2022 N-Drip relationship concerned irrigation at supplier farms across 17 countries and is an agricultural-technology relationship, rather than a verified Walkers digital deployment.30, 31 no public evidence identified of Walkers providing AI/ML, computer vision, automated tracking, autonomous decision support, or training data to Israeli state, military, or security bodies.4, 10

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

Walkers has no independently evidenced Israeli R&D centre, engineering office, innovation lab, accelerator, or Israeli academic co-development agreement in the reviewed material.3, 4 no public evidence identified of a Walkers acquisition of an Israeli technology company, an Israeli technology-startup or fund investment by Walkers, or a Walkers patent, licensing, or co-development arrangement with an Israeli-domiciled technology company or research institution.3, 4

PepsiCo’s FY2025 subsidiary schedule lists Israeli-incorporated group entities including So Spark Ltd., VentureCo (Israel) Ltd., SodaStream Industries Ltd., SodaStream International Ltd., and SodaStream Israel Ltd.3 The schedule establishes incorporation domicile only; it does not establish these entities’ functions, technology assets, R&D role, data-processing activity, defence or security customers, or operational connection to Walkers.3

[PARENT-SCOPE] The prior audit’s Obela/Strauss–EQUInom material, JVP Play participation, and N-Drip relationship remain PepsiCo group-level ecosystem leads, without verified attribution to Walkers’ own technology footprint.28, 29, 30, 31, 32

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

The supplied full-text checks found no mention of Walkers or PepsiCo in the reviewed 2023 OHCHR settlement-database update, the September 2025 OHCHR update, or A/HRC/59/23; these are document-scoped non-mentions and do not establish database-wide or sector-wide absence.33, 34, 26 A/HRC/59/23 discusses surveillance, AI, Project Nimbus, and Palantir in relation to other companies, not Walkers or PepsiCo in the reviewed text.33

The retrieved Who Profits and AFSC Investigate database landing pages returned no rendered-page match for “Walkers” or “PepsiCo”; neither result establishes a database-wide absence or a company-specific negative finding.27, 35 The reviewed BDS priority-target material returned no “PepsiCo” match, and the retrieved KLP page contains no PepsiCo match; these are source-scoped findings rather than evidence excluding independent, local, or non-technology campaigns.36, 37

No public evidence identified of an organised campaign specifically concerning Walkers’ provision or use of digital technology in Israel or the occupied territories.33, 34, 26, 36 no public evidence identified of a Walkers-specific regulatory inquiry, ICO action, export-control action, sanctions-related investigation, legal challenge, OECD National Contact Point matter, or parliamentary matter concerning technology sales or services to Israeli state entities.4, 26

The 2021 IT-system disruption was reported as an internal upgrade issue, rather than a cyber-attack or data breach; no ransomware or data-exfiltration incident affecting Walkers was publicly reported in the reviewed 2021–2025 record.5, 6, 38 For comparison, competitor KP Snacks suffered a Conti ransomware attack in January 2022.38

PepsiCo’s 2026 proxy identifies Ramon L. Laguarta as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; it reports that current directors and executive officers collectively beneficially owned less than 1% of PepsiCo common stock as of 26 February 2026.39, 25 no public evidence identified in the reviewed materials of Walkers or PepsiCo controlling principals holding a disclosed investment, board role, or family-office position in an Israeli surveillance, cyber, AI, SIGINT, or military-technology company; granular personal investment disclosures were not comprehensively reviewed, so this remains an evidence gap.25

No public evidence identified of Walkers digital products, services, platforms, cloud infrastructure, or surveillance technology being supplied in or to settlements, including through a licensee or franchisee.33, 34, 26

Footnotes

  1. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02333074 ↩

  2. https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02333074/persons-with-significant-control ↩

  3. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/77476/000007747626000007/pepsico202510-kexhibit21.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  4. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/77476/000007747626000007/pep-20251227.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18

  5. https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/02/walkers_it/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  6. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252509281/Whats-up-with-Wotsits-Quavers-and-Monster-Munch ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  7. https://www.techmonitor.ai/leadership/digital-transformation/walkers-crisp-shortage-it-supplies ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/crisps-nuts-and-snacks/walkers-crisps-hit-by-supply-disruption-after-it-upgrade-at-pepsico/661032.article ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. https://news.microsoft.com/source/2020/07/27/pepsico-partners-with-microsoft-for-new-era-of-operational-agility-and-product-innovation-amid-rising-consumer-demand/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  10. https://www.pepsico.com/newsroom/press-releases/2025/pepsico-and-aws-collaborate-to-accelerate-digital-transformation ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  11. https://www.zoominfo.com/c/walkers-snack-foods-ltd/351969143 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperva ↩

  13. https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/news-centre/press-releases/thales-completes-acquisition-imperva-creating-global-leader ↩

  14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkers_(snack_foods) ↩

  15. https://www.redpack.co.uk/redpack-delighted-to-partner-walkers-crisps-with-their-58m-investment/ ↩

  16. https://www.pepsico.co.uk/our-stories/story/we-re-investing-58-million-in-our-leicester-factory ↩

  17. https://www.packaging-gateway.com/projects/walkers-crisps/ ↩

  18. https://www.becausexm.com/blog/great-experiential-marketing-walkers-twitter-activated-vending-machine ↩ ↩2

  19. https://www.midlandfiresecurity.co.uk/case-studies/midland-fire-are-proud-to-protect-walker-crisps/ ↩ ↩2

  20. https://mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/he/p/4000556667 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  21. https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/ ↩

  22. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-weapons-430f6f15aab420806163558732726ad9 ↩

  23. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-technology-737bc17af7b03e98c29cec4e15d0f108 ↩

  24. https://time.com/6964364/exclusive-no-tech-for-apartheid-google-workers-protest-project-nimbus-1-2-billion-contract-with-israel/ ↩

  25. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/77476/000130817926000169/pep015012_def14a.htm ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  26. https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session31/database-hrc3136/23-06-30-Update-israeli-settlement-opt-database-hrc3136.pdf ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  27. https://www.whoprofits.org/companies/ ↩ ↩2

  28. https://nocamels.com/2018/03/jvp-pepsico-barclays-multinational/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  29. https://www.timesofisrael.com/jvp-selects-10-israeli-startups-for-mentorship-with-tesco-pepsico-barclays/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  30. https://nocamels.com/2022/03/pepsico-irrigation-n-drip/ ↩ ↩2

  31. https://jewishbusinessnews.com/2022/03/21/israels-n-drip-signs-20-million-annual-deal-with-pepsico-for-irrigation-tech/ ↩ ↩2

  32. https://israelagri.com/israeli-startup-equinom-raises-1-25-million-and-collaborates-with-pepsico/ ↩

  33. https://docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  34. https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  35. https://investigate.afsc.org/ ↩

  36. https://bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-Boycott ↩ ↩2

  37. https://www.klp.no/en/corporate-responsibility-and-responsible-investments/exclusion-and-dialogue ↩

  38. https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/03/kp_snacks_ransomware_infection/ ↩ ↩2

  39. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/77476/000130817926000172/pep015012-ars.pdf ↩