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This is a list of notable ice cream brands. Ice cream is a frozen dessert , usually made from dairy products such as milk and cream, and often combined with fruits or other ingredients and flavors. However, not all frozen desserts can be called ice cream.
Cold Storage is a Singaporean multinational supermarket company currently owned by DFI Retail Group.Its parent company also operates Market Place stores, now branded as Cold Storage Fresh, as well as the Giant hypermarket brand, and has various other supermarkets around Asia including Hero and Wellcome.
Ceylon Cold Stores was established in 1866 as the Colombo Ice Company, which in 1863 imported the country's first ice-making machine. With an initial capital of £1,600, two steam engines of 8 and 9 horsepower, and a total of 22 employees, the company started producing ice on a commercial scale. [ 3 ]
Cold storage companies began to appear when food preservation using ice became commercialized. Ice was farmed from lakes during the winter, and stored, surrounded by straw to insulate it, so that it could be used well into early summer. Ice houses and ice warehouses began to appear and blocks of ice were sold for domestic and commercial use.
This is a list of notable ice cream parlor chains. Ice cream parlors are places that sell ice cream , gelato , sorbet , and/or frozen yogurt to consumers. Ice cream is typically sold as regular ice cream (also called hard-packed ice cream), gelato, and soft serve , which is typically dispensed by a machine with a limited number of flavors (e.g ...
The sections are a two-story, eight-bay warehouse; a three-story, L-shaped addition; and a two-story concrete block addition. The Virginia Ice & Freezing Corp. had one of the largest ice and cold storage operations in Norfolk and was next to several of the leading oyster and fish processing plants. [3]
Production of its first product, 7 Up started on October 1, 1960. [2] The venture was a brainchild of the El-Khalil family from Lebanon. The family patriarch had founded a transport firm in Nigeria and then decided to divest into the soft drink market to compete with Leventis led Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC).
Ice cream barge. The ice cream barge is the colloquial term for the BRL (Barge, Refrigerated, Large). This was a towed vessel employed by the United States Navy (USN) in the Pacific theater of World War II to store frozen and refrigerated foodstuffs. It was also able to produce ice cream in large quantities to be provisioned to sailors and US ...