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Good Humor-Breyers (Ice Cream USA) is the American ice cream division of Unilever and includes the formerly independent Good Humor, Breyers, Klondike, Popsicle, Dickie Dee [1] and Sealtest brands. Based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey [ 2 ] it was formed in 1993 after Unilever purchased the ice cream division of Kraft General Foods .
Good Humor is a Good Humor-Breyers brand of ice cream started by Harry Burt in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, in the early 1920s with the Good Humor bar, a chocolate-coated ice cream bar on a stick sold from ice cream trucks and retail outlets. It was a fixture in American popular culture in the 1950s when the company operated up to 2,000 ...
Ted Ryan, Ford archives and heritage brand manager, said the company can't confirm how many trucks were converted to sell ice cream but the Good Humor fleet numbers in the thousands in the 1960s.
In 1992 Dickie Dee was sold to Unilever and became a division of Good Humor-Breyers. Good Humor-Breyers maintained the Dickie Dee brand and program from offices in Oakville, Ontario until 2002. Today much of the remaining equipment is privately owned by former distributors who are still selling ice cream products as independent operators under ...
Our family entered trucking in 1946 when my grandfather bought his first two trucks, hauling Lucky Lager beer from Vancouver, WA. ... Breyers has an all-new ice cream that tastes like a Good Humor ...
1920: Ice Cream on Wheels. The first ice cream trucks pop up in Youngstown, Ohio, in 1920, when Harry Burt develops frozen ice cream on a stick and names it the Good Humor bar.
In 1993, Unilever merged the Breyers ice cream brand with Gold Bond and Good Humor ice cream to create the Good Humor-Breyers division. [2] [3] Unilever closed its last Breyers plant in Philadelphia in 1995. [9] The Good Humor-Breyers headquarters were moved from Green Bay, Wisconsin and Oakville, Ontario to Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey and ...
Harry B. Burt (1875 – 1926) was an American confectioner who developed the ice-cream novelty known as the Good Humor bar. [1] Burt is widely credited with revolutionalizing manufacturing, marketing, and distribution techniques for ice-cream products. [2]