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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]
In 2001 Nestlé exercised its contractual right to buy General Mills' interest in Ice Cream Partners, which included the right to a 99-year license for the Häagen-Dazs brand. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Pursuant to that license, the Dreyer's subsidiary of Nestlé produced and marketed Häagen-Dazs products in the United States and Canada.
In 1966, Häagen-Dazs launched its fourth flavor, strawberry, a flavor that took them 6 years to develop. [11] By 1973, it was sold throughout the United States, and in 1976 the first Häagen-Dazs store was opened in Brooklyn by their daughter Doris. [11] [8] [12] The business was sold to the Pillsbury Company in 1983 for $70 million.
Diageo is now a powerhouse, generating over $20 billion in sales globally and ranked #155 on the Fortune 500 Europe list. It's also home to 13 billionaire drink brands.
General Mills, Inc. is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of branded processed consumer foods sold through retail stores. Founded on the banks of the Mississippi River at Saint Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, the company originally gained fame for being a large flour miller.
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.
I started with Vanilla and Caramel Crunch Milk Chocolate bars, which have a comparable bite to Häagen-Dazs’ Dulce de Leche ice cream bars. The latter set me back $5.99 at my local grocer.
Paul Steven Walsh (born 15 May 1955) is an English businessman who is the executive chairman of the McLaren Group.He was the chief executive of Diageo, the world's largest whisky company, for twelve years between 2000 and 2013.