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Häagen-Dazs' first store at 120 Montague Street, Brooklyn, New York. Häagen-Dazs's founder Reuben Mattus was born in Poland in 1912 to Jewish parents. His father died during World War I, and his widowed mother migrated to New York City with her two children in 1921. [4] They joined an uncle who was in the Italian lemon-ice business in Brooklyn.
The modern English surnames Trump, Tromp, and Trumper are derived from occupational names referring to "trumpet", either for trumpeters or trumpet-makers.Early attestations of the occupational name include references to one Patrick Trumpe in Cumbria (1275), to Adam Trumpur in Essex (also 1275), and to Nicholas Trump in Cambridgeshire (1279).
In 1959, they decided to form a new ice cream company with a foreign-sounding name. The name chosen was the Danish-sounding 'Häagen-Dazs' as a tribute to Denmark's exemplary treatment of its Jews during the Second World War, [3] adding an umlaut which does not exist in Danish, and even put a map of Denmark on the carton. [1]
Sixty-five years later, Häagen-Dazs is one of the most recognizable ice cream brands in America, so we'd say that Reuben's instincts were solid. 20 Häagen-Dazs flavors, Ranked 20.
The merger, worth $33 billion at the time, ultimately created a food and beverage juggernaut. It wasn’t until a few years after the deal that Diageo shed its food segment and transformed into ...
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Haagen is a surname of Dutch, Danish, Scandinavian and Germanic origin. The Danish and Scandinavian origin is from the Old Norse personal name Hákon, probably a compound of hár ‘high’ or a word meaning ‘horse’ + kyn ‘family’ or konr ‘son descendant’. [citation needed] The German origin is a variant of Haag or Haage. [1]