Streets (ice cream)

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Streets
Streets Ice Cream
Type Subsidiary
Industry Food processing
Founded1920;103 years ago (1920) in Corrimal, New South Wales, Australia
FounderEdwin 'Ted' Street
Headquarters Minto,
Products Ice cream
Brands Paddle Pop, Golden Gaytime, Cornetto, Magnum, Splice, Viennetta, Bubble O' Bill
Number of employees
201 [1]  (2017)
Parent Unilever
Website streetsicecream.com.au

Streets is an Australian ice-cream brand bought by the British multinational company Unilever in 1960. [2] 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.

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Founding and history

Streets was founded by Edwin "Ted" Street and his wife Daisy in the 1930s, in Corrimal, New South Wales. He set up a distribution depot at Bexley and then a factory in the Sydney suburb of Turrella, where products were manufactured until 1996, when production moved to a new facility in Minto. Today most cream-based products are produced at Minto, while water-based products are imported from China. [3]

Streets introduced the Paddle Pop in 1953, and sold over ninety million units by century's end. It is, per capita, the world's best selling ice cream. [4]

In 2017, Unilever applied to the Fair Work Commission to terminate the current enterprise agreement on wages and conditions and return factory workers to award conditions. The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union, which represents the workers, warned that they face a pay cut of up to 46 per cent. The union called on Australians to boycott Streets products in protest. [5] A settlement was negotiated in November 2017. [6]

Streets shares the Heartbrand logo with Wall's, HB Ice Cream, Good Humor, GB Glace, Selecta, Kibon and Algida—used in the United Kingdom, Poland, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Sweden, Philippines, Brazil and Argentina, and Italy respectively. All brands are owned by Unilever. [7]

From 1962 to 1998 (with a change in 1968), the logo consisted of a badge containing the word Streets on a background of vertical red and white stripes.

Brands / Products

An original flavour Golden Gaytime Golden Gaytime.png
An original flavour Golden Gaytime

The following are some of the brands/products sold under the Streets name. [8]

See also

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References

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  2. "Streets celebrates a century of ice-cream, beginning in a Corrimal backyard". 17 November 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2023.
  3. "Streets FAQ". streets.com.au. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  4. Garton, Stephen, "Edwin (Ted) Street (1891–1975)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University, archived from the original on 19 November 2015
  5. Patty, Anna (29 October 2017). "Cone of silence: Streets ice-cream boycott to be launched on Sunday". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  6. "Streets workers end boycott". news.com.au. 22 November 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
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