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| Owner | Unilever |
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| Introduced | 1993 |
| Markets | United States |
Good Humor-Breyers (Ice Cream USA) is the American ice cream division of Unilever and includes the formerly independent Good Humor, Breyers, Klondike, Popsicle, Dickie Dee [1] and Sealtest brands. Based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey [2] it was formed in 1993 after Unilever purchased the ice cream division of Kraft General Foods. [3]
Unilever began making Good Humor ice cream products in the United States in 1961. In 1992, Unilever acquired Dickie Dee, a Canadian ice cream vending company that sold product from ice cream trucks and tricycle carts. At the time of the sale, there were around 1,500 tricycles in 300 cities. Unilever ended the ice cream bikes in the early 2000s and carts were sold to distributors. [4]
In 1993, Unilever announced it would acquire the Breyers and Sealtest brands from Kraft who, however, retained the name use for non-ice cream products.
Unilever integrated its ice cream division into its main offices in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey in 2007. [5]
The Good Humor brand has been known for its ice cream trucks, the concept of which was first originated by Good Humor brand creator Harry Burt. [6] Good Humor-Breyers products have included:
A Klondike bar is a Good Humor-Breyers ice cream novelty consisting of a square of ice cream coated with a thin layer of chocolate.
A choc ice or ice cream bar is a frozen dessert generally consisting of a rectangular block of ice cream—typically vanilla flavour—which is thinly coated with chocolate. Related products may also include other fillings with the ice cream and be styled similar to candy bars. The term has also been used as a racial slur.
Good Humor is a Good Humor-Breyers brand of ice cream started with Harry Burt in Youngstown, Ohio, US, in the early 1920s with the Good Humor bar, a chocolate-coated ice cream bar on a stick sold from ice cream trucks and retail outlets. It was a fixture in American popular culture in the 1950s when the company operated up to 2,000 "sales cars".
Popsicle is a Good Humor-Breyers brand of ice pop consisting of flavored, colored ice on a stick.
Breyers is a brand of ice cream started in 1866 by William A. Breyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Kibon is a Brazilian-Argentine ice cream producer, now owned by Unilever. The logo that it uses is the same Heartbrand logo that Wall's ice cream, Good Humor, Streets, Selecta and Langnese use in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Philippines and Germany respectively, also owned by Unilever.
Frusen Glädjé was a company that made premium ice cream for the American market, founded in 1980 by Richard E. Smith. Although the ice cream was made in the U.S., it used a quasi-Swedish name: frusen glädje, without the acute accent, is Swedish for "frozen happiness".
Wall's is a British ice cream and frozen dessert brand in the United Kingdom owned by Unilever and is part of the Heartbrand global frozen dessert brand.
Sealtest Dairy is a Good Humor-Breyers brand for dairy products. Formerly a division of National Dairy Products Corporation of Delaware, it produced milk, cream, ice cream, and lemonade. The Sealtest brand was also later used by various companies in Canada under license.
Viennetta is a British brand of ice cream dessert made by Unilever and sold under the various Heartbrand brands around the world. The original Viennetta consists of several rippled layers of ice cream separated by thin layers of sprayed-on compound chocolate. It is now available in many flavours, including vanilla and mint.
An ice pop is a liquid-based frozen snack on a stick. Unlike ice cream or sorbet, which are whipped while freezing to prevent ice crystal formation, an ice pop is "quiescently" frozen—frozen while at rest—and becomes a solid block of ice. The stick is used as a handle to hold it. Without a stick, the frozen product would be a freezie.
Streets is an Australian ice-cream brand owned by the British multinational company Unilever. Some products are made in China and shipped to Australia and New Zealand. It is part of Unilever's ice cream brand Heartbrand. The company is in a long-term contract with dairy company Dairy Farmers.
Dickie Dee is a Canadian brand of ice cream currently owned by Good Humor-Breyers.
Harry B. Burt was an American confectioner who developed the ice-cream novelty known as the Good Humor bar. Burt is widely credited with revolutionalizing manufacturing, marketing, and distribution techniques for ice-cream products.
Choco Taco was a Good Humor-Breyers ice cream novelty resembling a taco. It consisted of a disk of waffle cone material folded to resemble a hard taco shell, reduced-fat vanilla ice cream, artificially flavored fudge, peanuts, and a milk chocolate coating. The "Choco Taco" was marketed under the Klondike brand as "The Original Ice Cream Taco".
A screwball is a type of frozen confection that first appeared in the 1970s. It consists of ice cream inside a conical, plastic cup with a gumball at the bottom. The name was originally a commercial product name but is now used to describe all such ice cream treats.
Worksman Cycles is a family-owned American manufacturer of bicycles and tricycles for industrial, commercial and recreational use. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Ozone Park in the borough of Queens in New York City. Previously in the Spear Building the company also operates an additional factory in Conway, South Carolina. Worksman is the oldest bicycle manufacturer in the United States and has operated its own factory-direct e-commerce store since 2004.
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