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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.
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]
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]
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.
Häagen-Dazs spawned imitators, such as Frusen Glädjé (frusen glädje without the acute accent meaning "frozen joy" in Swedish), another brand of premium ice cream. Häagen Dazs sued unsuccessfully in 1980 to stop them from using a "Scandinavian marketing theme", despite that the name Häagen-Dazs does not even remotely resemble anything ...
Since 2000, Turkey Hill has been among the nation's top-selling brands of refrigerated iced tea and, in 2011, was the fourth-largest producer of ice cream, [5] after Nestlé (Dreyer's/Edy Grand, Häagen-Dazs, Mövenpick), Unilever (Breyers Ice Cream and Ben & Jerry's), and Wells' Dairy . [6]
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.
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.