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Moo-Ville Creamery’s dairy products are fresh from the farm

Moo-Ville Creamery makes premium dairy products out of the A2A2 milk its own cows produce at the company’s WestVale-View Dairy in Nashville, Mich.

Kathie Canning

April 15, 2022

Moo-Ville Creamery makes premium dairy products out of the A2A2 milk its own cows produce at the company’s own WestVale-View Dairy in Nashville, Mich.

Oregon Ice Cream Co. has something for everyone

Oregon Ice Cream Co., known for its flagship Alden’s Organic brand, has a data-driven, consumer-focused approach to product development.

Anna Boisseau

April 28, 2020

Journey to any grocery store today and you'll find plenty of organic product options tucked next to conventional offerings. But when Oregon Ice Cream Co. launched the Alden's Organic ice cream brand in 2004, it was offering something fairly novel to the market.

Halo Top introduces Keto Series

The seven new ice cream flavors are designed for followers of the ketogenic diet.

February 11, 2020

Halo Top, a brand of Le Mars, Iowa-based Wells Enterprises Inc., said it introduced the Keto Series — seven flavors of ice cream designed for people following the ketogenic (keto) diet.

High Road Craft Brands scales up its operation

High Road Craft Brands has experienced phenomenal growth over the past decade. But its ice cream plant remains committed to small-batch, craft operations

Kathie Canning

February 4, 2020

Tucked away in a Marietta, Ga., industrial park, surrounded by Georgia pines, is a 75,000-square-foot, nondescript off-white building that offers few external cues as to what’s inside. But once a visitor steps into that building, he or she will see an operation that is actually rather exceptional.

High Road Craft Brands has craft at its core

Boasting a chef as its co-founder and a culinary approach to ice cream production, High Road Craft Brands has found the right ingredients for success

Kathie Canning

February 3, 2020

At the height of the Great Recession, two MBA students, one of them a classically trained chef, put their heads together to try to solve a problem that was playing out in the foodservice industry: fewer "cooks in the kitchen" to support chefs.

Graeter’s builds on tradition

As it looks forward to its 150th anniversary, Graeter’s is still making indulgence-minded ice cream by hand via the traditional French Pot method

Kathie Canning

October 1, 2019

Back in the mid-19th century, a young Louis C. Graeter said goodbye to small-town Indiana and moved to the big city, Cincinnati, to seek his fortune. It was there that the teenager decided to try his hand at crafting a sweet treat, ice cream, in an open-air market.

Ben & Jerry's ice cream facility is committed to overall excellence

Ben & Jerry’s St. Albans ice cream facility is committed to overall excellence — and preparing for significant expansion.

Debra Schug

October 9, 2017

All of Ben & Jerry’s decisions are guided by its three-part mission statement: to make the best products, to be financially successful and to stand up for social causes. From start to finish, these principles also drive the operations and the floor workers at the company’s ice cream factory in St. Albans, Vt.

Clean ingredients, healthy options dominate in frozen desserts

Ice cream makers are creating new pint lines with lower calories and sugar. Meanwhile, producers of frozen novelties and puddings focus on portion control, packaging and high-quality ingredients.

Sarah M. Kennedy

September 4, 2017

Consumers love their ice cream and other frozen and refrigerated treats and prefer them in their most natural forms. There is still a strong desire to eat healthy, but for many, not if it means giving up the indulgence factor. Several ice cream brands have taken on this challenge, creating lines that cut back on calories and sugar but with the mouthfeel consumers expect from ice cream.

A steep by steep approach

Tea-rrific’s freshly brewed tea flavors make an award-winning ice cream

A problem to be solved: What is the right formulation for the base to have a creamy texture and allow the flavor of the tea to come out?

James Carper

March 7, 2017

Dairy Foods editor-in-chief Jim Carper spoke with Mario Leite, the founder of Tea-rrific! Ice Cream, about the company, his goals and lessons that he would share with other food entrepreneurs.

State of the Industry 2016: Ice cream makers are producing, selling more

Ice cream manufacturers are making more and selling more. Their constant stream of new flavors keeps customers engaged. They break into new markets to expand their customer base.

James Carper

November 14, 2016

Ice cream is back. Retail sales in the last year rose 6% and production rose 3.7% in 2015 from 2014 levels (the latest years available).