Adams Bruce
Adams Bruce Ltd, College Street, Wellington
1960? - 1976?
Ernest Adams and Hugh Bruce. From 1926 a nationwide chain of Adams Bruce
and Queen Anne shops sold ice cream under the Queen Anne brand. The Adams
Bruce brand was also used for ice cream in the North Island in the 60s.
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Alpine
Alpine Ice Cream Company, Huntly / Robinson Ice Cream Company Ltd, Auckland
/ Levin Ice Cream Company Ltd, Levin.
1928 - 1953?
General Manager, Frank MacDonald, 1929-1938. Original shareholders were
Mac McDonald, George Jew and Bill Waring. Building now occupied by Roger
Gill Motors. Super-Cold refrigeration. Choc Bonza Bars. Choc Bombs. Slices.
Twinkle On A Stick. Acquired in August 1939 by Robinson Ice Cream Company,
Auckland. The Alpine brand was retained for some years and the business
run as a subsidiary of Robinson. Alpine brand ice cream, Alpine Bonza
Bars and Alpine Double Banger Bars were manufactured (under licence?)
by Levin Ice Cream Company ca. 1950. Robinson was taken over by Tip Top
in 1953.
Alpine
Alpine Freezing Company, 23-27 Old Customhouse St., Wellington
1916? - 1923?
"Supplied direct from the finest Jersey Herd in the Wainuiomata district
..."
Ambrosia
Ambrosia Cream Company, Leeds St., Te Aro, Wellington
1911 - 1912?
Factory opened 4 December 1911.
Apex
Apex Ice Cream Co., Peterborough St. / 5 Manchester St. / 100 Durham
St., Christchurch
1932 - 1960
George Gourley, Winston Gourley . "Pexie" foil-wrapped, chocolate-coated
ice cream bar. Took over Top Notch Delicacies Ltd. in July 1960. Taken
over by Tip Top in December 1960.
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Arctic
Hawkes Bay Frozen Supplies, Ltd. (aka. H.B. Frozen Supplies Ltd.), Hastings
/ Napier.
1926 - ?
Registered as a private company November 12, 1926. Capital: £1200,
into 1200 shares of £1 each. Subscribers: Napier - T. B. Atkin
400, N. W. Smith 400, G. Shuck 400. Objects: Ice manufacturing, ice cream
manufacturing, sweet and confectionery manufacturing, cold storage, general
storage and manufacturing of frozen produce generally. "Arctic" Ice
Cream, and the "Arctic Pie" foil-wrapped, ice cream bar. This
company was a member of the NZICA and was operational in 1931 at the
time of the Napier earthquake. Norman Smith, Ted Rixon, Jim Winstanley.
Acquired by Frozen Products.
Arctic
1930 - 1932
"Arctic Ice Cream Company Ltd.", with a factory at Pukeiti Rd., Otahuhu, Auckland.
Mr W.J. Logan. Exclusive NZ rights to the "Popsicle" brand. Also made ice cream
cakes. Registered as a private company November 1930, factory opened approx.
Jan 1931?, seems like the person who owned or leased their Emery Thompson Brine
Freezer, a Mr Tom Robinson, went bankrupt in August 1931, and the company was
placed in liquidation 15 March 1932.
Arctic
Arctic Ice Cream, Ltd. / Arctic Ice Cream Co., Peel St. Petone.
1939? - 1945?
" The Arctic Ice Cream", sold from a milkbar stand at the 1940 Exhibition,
Wellington. Operating at least up until Dec 1945. Taken over by Frozen Products
(Frosty Jack brand) who operated from 8 Peel St in the late 40s. (Advertisements
1942-45 refer to Artic Ice Cream Co, and Artic Ice Cream Ltd, Peel St, Petone
- mis-spelling, or possibly company below?).
Artic
Artic Ice Cream, Jackson St., Petone.
1921 - 1937
Harry Muschamp Waddington. Started as a small lounge bar and restaurant
in Jackson Street, opposite the Municipal Buildings, making ice cream
by hand churn.
Astrella's Ice Cream Co. advertisement,
Auckland Star, 22 March 1939.
Astrella's
N. Astrella and Sons / W. Astrella and Sons / Astrella's Ice Cream Co.
/ Astrella Dominion Ice Cream Company, 87 Lincoln St., Ponsonby, Auckland.
1909 - 1939?
Thought to be Auckland's first ice cream manufacturers. Nicola Astrella.
Producing ice cream by hand churn and selling from a hand cart in 1909.
Built a factory in Lincoln St, Ponsonby (1910?). A three-way merger of
Astrella Dominion Ice Cream Co., New Polar Ice Cream and Robinson Ice
Cream Co.was proposed in July 1930. Astrella and New Polar appear to
have gone ahead and merged, however the proposal was rejected by Robinson
shareholders a few months later. Venice Astrella was a foreman at Peters
Ice Cream Company (N.Z.) Ltd, Newmarket in October 1936. Nicola Astrella
passed away 30 June 1937. New Polar went into liquidation in September
1931, but the Astrella's brand continued on until at least 1939. V. Astrella
and M.J. Astrella were involved in registering the Okay Ice Cream Co.
Ltd in 1941.
Aurora
Aurora Ice Cream Co., New Plymouth
192? - 196?
Frederick Samuel Butler. R.C. Meharry. Manufactured ice cream at its
Liardet Street factory and was a supplier of frozen products, cones,
cups and cartons. Bedford delivery truck.
Aurora
The Aurora Trading Co., Ltd., Leeds St, Wellington
1919? - ?
Aurora
Aurora Ice Cream Factory, 56 Ghuznee St, Wellington
1923? - ?
Barlow's Ice Cream advertisement, 1943.
- Frostee Digest.
Barlow's
Barlow's Ice Cream, Te Aroha
1930? - 196?
John Lancelot Barlow. John Barlow died February 1944. The Barlow's slogan "It's
Often Licked, But Never Beaten" was later used by Tip Top.
Bates
Bates (Wairoa) Ltd., Wairoa
Bell's
Bell's Ice Cream
Oamaru
Bell's Supercold
Bells Milk Bar, Greymouth
Frank Bell
Betta
Betta Ice Cream Co.
1951 - 1960
Bluebell
Westland Snowflake Ice Cream Co, Greymouth
Frank Bell
One of the two Blue Moon Ice Cream trucks that serviced Napier
and Hastings.
- Hawke's
Bay Today.
Blue
Moon
Blue Moon Dairy / Blue Moon Ice Cream Co., 909 Heretaunga St East, Hastings
/ Karanema Drive, Havelock North
1938 - 1984
Mr Delaney ran a small dairy on Heretaunga St East. Wilson Hazelwood
purchased the business in 1941 and moved it to a shop across the road.
It was then taken over by Thomas McAvinue, who created an ice cream garden
with a goldfish pond, making the ice cream in a small factory behind
the shop. A separate manufacturing company was formed in 1949 with 17
shareholders - Edwin Bate, chairman and Harold Carr, company secretary.
The Blue Moon Dairy was sold to Bruce Hastie in 1957, and he immediately
increased the opening hours and added new products, such as sundaes and
milk drinks. Bruce later added a coffee bar, which was one of the first
in the area. He purchased the manufacturing business in 1962 and built
a new factory in Havelock North, opened in 1966. 30 flavours, Chocolate
Bombs, Star Pops. Sold to Devon Dairy Products, Tauranga, in 1984.
Blix
Blicks Ice Cream, Invercargill
192? - ?
Fred Blick. Brand became Sunkist. Purchased by General Foods (Tip Top).
Boston Ice Cream refrigerated ice cream truck, 1928. Zola Jamieson,
Ily Scott the office girl and Tip the dog.
- Bob Jamieson.
Boston
Boston Ice Cream Company / Jamieson Bros. Ltd, Victoria Street, Wanganui.
1924 - 1927?
Established by Alick Revell in 1924. The business was a huge success,
and in May that year, Boston Ice Cream Company was one of two New Zealand
companies granted licenses to manufacture the American chocolate-coated
ice cream bar sensation, the Eskimo Pie. Unfortunately Alick's sister's
husband was killed in a car accident, so he had to return to Glenfield
to help her on the farm with her young family, and relinquish the Eskimo
Pie licence. The business was taken over by brothers Ken and Maurice
Jamieson (Jamieson Bros. Ltd). Boston Ice Cream vendors were active in
Wanganui in 1927. In 1928 the Jamiesons imported what was believed to
be New Zealand's first refrigerated truck, brand new, with doubled skinned
walls where ice was placed to keep things cold. They also delivered & sold
ice to their customers. Bos-Chock Bars, 3d, Icey Slices, 3d, Polar Packs,
4d. The company folded in the Great Depression.
Buller
Valley
Buller Valley Co-op Dairy Company, Westport.
1946 - 1950?
Choc Boms, Klix Bars, Choc Bars, cartons. Ice cream operation and brand
taken over by Snowflake.
Burrells
Burrells Products Ltd., Palmerston North.
Jimmy Burrel.
Byers Ice Cream refrigerated delivery truck (Ford), 1948. Refrigeration
by McAlpine. Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum neg.
4350A.
Byers
Byers Ice Cream Co. Ltd, 43 Linton St., Palmerston North.
192? - 195?
Harry Byers. Began by making home made ice cream to supply his confectioner's
business. Sold chocolate-coated Iceland Bars in the 1930s.
Carbie's / Carbine's
Carbine's Ice Cream, 33 Edenvale Rd, Mt Eden, Auckland
1941? - ?
Central Otago Ice Cream Co.
195? - ?
W.B. Clark?
Cherry Blossom
Cherry Blossom Ice Cream Co. Ltd, 201 Main St, Palmerston North
1933 - 1936
In liquidation December 1936.
Clarke's Ice Cream sign, 1950s-60s.
- Kirstine Thompson.
Clarke's
Clarke & Millward, Clarke's Frozen Foods, Petone
1922 - 196?
W.O. Clarke, G.R. Millward. Foil-wrapped "Chocolate Icelet" bar.
Taken over by Frozen Products (Frosty Jack).
Cloverlea
198? - ?
Factory Rd, Washdyke, Timaru
Took over Wards Ice Cream.
Coker & Mills
Coker & Mills Ice Cream, Dodson St, Blenheim
1930 - 1971?
Roy H. Coker, Howard Mills. Super-Cold Ice Cream. Buried Treasure Ice
Blocks. Mrs Rose Richards. Roy Henry B. Coker was a confectioner in Blenheim
in 1916. Factory was originally a malthouse for a brewery (1858) - now
Dodson Street Beer Garden.
Collie
W. Collie & Co., Blenheim
? - 194?
Collins
Collins Bro's., Pollen St., Thames
191? - ?
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Collins's / Collins'
Collins, The Ice Cream Parlour, Timaru
1911 - 1915?
Cooke's
W. R. Cooke & Son Ltd
Cooke's Ice Cream Parlours , High St, Christchurch
Cooke's Tearooms & Soda Fountain, 60 / 63 Queen St. and 48 Karangahape
Rd., Auckland
1911? - 194?
Established restaurant / tearooms / ice cream parlour business in Christchurch
first, then in Auckland in 1912. Originally at 60 Queen St Auckland,
then moved into a new 7-storey building at 63 Queen St. Rangitoto Special
Ice Cream Sundae. Frank Wright. Sold their Christchurch wholesale ice
cream factory to Perfection Ice Cream Co. in 1930. The Auckland restaurant
continued to make ice cream on the premises into the '40s.
Country Club / Peter's Country Club
Tip Top Ice Cream / General Foods Corp./ Country Club Ice Cream Co Ltd
Tip Top's budget brand.
Crackajack
Southland Ice Cream Co. Ltd, Invercargill
193? - ?
Fred Blick. Brand later changed to "Sunkist".
Cream
Craft
Auckland
195? - 1964?
Leith Thompson. Later logo similar to Gaytime and may in fact have changed
name to Gaytime. Taken over by Tip Top.
Creemee
Creemee Ice Cream Co. / Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Co., Auckland
196? - 1972
Ice cream carton, Crystal Ice Co Ltd, Dunedin.
- Owaka Museum.
Crystal
Crystal Ice Cream Company Ltd., 278 King Edward St., South Dunedin
Crystal Ice Company Ltd., 278 King Edward St., South Dunedin
1925 - 1964
H. Turner. Managed by Mr R. J. van Every, who had previous experience
with "one of the largest Ice Cream Factories in California".
By 1927 advertising Ice Cream Cakes, Ice Cream Puddings, Individual Cups,
Special Flavours, Frozen Sherbets. Licensed to manufacture Eskimo Pies
(as advertised 1927-30). By the 1950s was being run by Bill Haig, Bill
Crimp, Henry Horrell, John Hay, Morrie Dunn. Acquired Sunshine Ice Cream
Co., Alexandra in 1950. Around 1960, Crystal acquired the Dunedin Ice
Cream Mfg. Co. (Royal brand). Acquired two Invercargill companies in
1961, Rices Ice Cream Co. and Southland Ice Cream Co. (Sunkist brand).
Also in 1961 acquired Crystal Ice (Central Otago) and Oamaru Ice Cream
Co. Acquired Rosco in 1963, Newjoy in 1964.
General Foods (Tip Top brand) acquired Crystal Ice in 1964 – by
then it had absorbed Crystal, Royal (Dunedin Ice Cream Mfg Co.), Rosco,
Rices, Sunkist (Southland Ice Cream Co.) and Newjoy brands.
Delecta Ice Cream sign, probably late 1950s.
- Elsie
Wolfe Antiques.
Delecta
Gibbes' Delecta Ice Cream Coy., Hawera
1929 - 1960?
Mr & Mrs H. Gibbes, owners of "The Geisha" and "The
Grand" confectionery shops in Hawera. In 1933 were advertising "DE-ICY-PY" chocolate-coated
ice cream bars, 3d each. Acquired by Frozen Products some time in the
1950s but the Delecta brand appears to have continued up until ~1960.
Gibbes Delecta Ice Cream Ltd company liquidated in 1968.
Delecta
Delecta Ice Cream Factory, 29 Cross St., Auckland.
Advertising for staff in 1939. Probably connected to Gibbes' Delecta
above?
Devon Delight
Devon Dairy Products, Mount Maunganui
197? - 1985
Later became Kiwi Ice Cream?
Dustin's
W.S. Dustin, Wanganui
1891? - ?
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E-Tan Ice Cream delivery truck, Auckland Weekly News, 9 October
1929.
- Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland
Libraries, AWNS-19291009-50-6
E-Tan
Etan Ice Cream Company Ltd., 7 Willis St., Palmerston North
192? - 1944
Manawatu-Horowhenua. "The King of Kream". "A Food - Not
A Fad". At one time sold by Dustins. Ted Rixon. Also distributed
Peters products. Acquired by Frozen Products in 1938. Manager L.S. Catterick.
Company name changed to Glacier Ice Cream Ltd in 1944.
Egmont Ice Cream sixpence-halfpenny tub, 1940s.
- Softly.
Egmont Ice Cream
Egmont Frozen Products Ltd, New Plymouth
1929? - 1950?
L.G. Innes?
Sandwiches, Sundae cartons, Eskimo Pies, Mountain Bars, Chocolate Bombs,
Chocolate Gems. Acquired by Frozen Products Ltd.
Elbe's
Elbe's Milk Bar Ltd, High St, Lower Hutt
1939 - 197?
Mr L.F. Elbe. Pints, quarts, tubs, vanilla slices, chocolate coated novelties,and
ice cream cakes. Elbe's Milk Bar became infamous in 1954 with press reports
of the scandalous activities of the local 'milk bar cowboys' and secondary
school girls. Taken over by Denne's (Peter Pan).
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Eldora
Takapuna Dairy Company Ltd., cnr. Mozeley Avenue and Victoria Road, Devonport,
Auckland
1928 - 1964
Israel Massey.
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Elite
J.M. Robertson & Sons Ltd., Westport.
1939 - 195?
John Robertson (Mayor of Westport, 1939-45). Robertson brothers: S.C. "Cobb" and
C.M. "Charlie" Robertson.
Everest
Everest Ice Cream Co. Ltd., 122 Burke St., Sydenham, Christchurch.
1955 - 1960
Started by John Cahill (ex-Queen Anne). Everest Ice Cream Cakes. Everest
Paddle Pop Iced Lolly. Sold to Apex in 1959. Everest Ice Cream Cakes
still being sold in 1960.
Fiesta
Fiesta Ice Cream Company Co. Ltd. / Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Co., Industry
Road, Penrose, Auckland
? - 1976?
Bill Coates. Purchased by Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Co. in 1972. COOL-IT
ice blocks. Pancho Bar, Rosita Jellitip. Fiesta brand discontinued, and
factory used for Wall's production. Coates went on to establish La Grande
Ice Cream in Wellington.
Freesia Ice Cream advertisement, Poverty Bay Herald, 31 October
1925.
- PapersPast
Freesia
Freesia Milk and Ice Cream Company, Ltd., 22 Derby St. / 30 Derby St.,
Gisborne
F.H. Wise
1923 - 1932
"Look For Freesia - The Sign of Ice Cream Purity". Manufactured Eskimo
Pies in 1926-28. Company name changed to Wise's Ice Cream Ltd in May 1932 and
the brand appears to have been changed to Wise's at the same time.
Frosty Boy
Taylor Freezer - NZ Co-operative Dairy Co., Hamilton / Frosty Boy (NZ)
Ltd, Otahuhu / Mt Wellington / Milligans Food Group Ltd, Oamaru
1980 - now
In 1970 American soft serve ice cream equipment manufacturer Taylor Freezer
began to use an ice cream parlor in its hometown of Adrian, Michigan
as a demonstration showroom for its machines. The shop was called Frosty
Boy and in 1973 Taylor Freezer registered the Frosty Boy trademark, licensing
it for use by customers who used their machines and their Frosty Boy
proprietary soft serve powder mix. In 1976, Taylor Freezer set up a Frosty
Boy operation in Australia, in partnership with New Zealand Co-operative
Dairy Company, the latter supplying soft serve powder from New Zealand.
In August 1980, Taylor Freezers of New Zealand Limited set up a partnership
with the NZ Co-operative Dairy Co. to supply Frosty Boy soft serve in
New Zealand, Frosty Boy (NZ) Ltd., with Neil Tisch as Manager. Frosty
Boy Soft Serve Ice Cream, Soft Serve Yoghurt and Thick Shake Mix, Thick
Shake Containers, Ice Cream Cones, Flavouring and Sundae Glasses. Regional
franchises offered. In 2007, Oamaru-based Milligans Food Group Ltd acquired
the Frosty Boy NZ business. The original Frosty Boy store in Adrian,
Michigan still operates.
Frosty Jack
Frozen Products Ltd., 210 Vivian St, Wellington / 25-29 Tennyson St,
Wellington / 8 Peel St, Petone
1924 - 1967
Mr Munro, and American. Second factory in Palmerston North. Took over
Glacier Ice Cream in Wanganui (date?), and Wise's ice cream factory in
Gisborne in 1960. Sold to Fropax (N.Z.) Ltd (Vestey Group, meat processors,
Blue Star Line shipping) in 1966.
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Frozo
Auckland
1920s
Gates'
Gates's Ice Works, Leeds St., Te Aro / F.F. Ice Co. / Gates Ltd. American
Lounge, 81-85 Willis St., Wellington
1916 - 1919?
Gaytime
Dunedin / Christchurch / Neslon / Wellington / Auckland
1964 - 1972
Gaytime is believed to have originally evolved from Cream Craft, Auckland.
It appears to have developed into a collaborative effort by several regional
manufacturers to establish a national brand and presence in the ice cream
and novelty market. Perfection Ice Cream in Christchurch, Frozen Products
Ltd in Wellington and Eldora, Auckland produced Gaytime, possibly others.
The Gaytime Goldmine stick novelty was launched in 1964, with a
catchy radio jingle sung by New Zealand's "Queen of the Mods," 1960s
popstar Dinah Lee. It is possible that the product and Gaytime name were
under licence from Streets Ice Cream in Australia, who at that time were
selling a biscuit crumb-coated, vanilla-and-toffee ice cream stick novelty
called Golden Gaytime. Novelties included Bingo, Bonanza, Fru-Tip, Fruit
Salad Split, Goldmine, Heart, Special. By 1965, both Perfection and Eldora
had been taken over by General Foods Corporation (Tip Top), who continued
to produce the Gaytime Goldmine and later the Tip Top Gaytime (biscuit-coated,
chocolate-enrobed ice cream on a stick). The Gaytime ice cream brand
was kept alive by Tip Top until 1972. Gaytime survives as a brand of
ice cream cone.
Glacier
Glacier Ice Cream Ltd., 7 Willis St., Palmerston North
Glacier Ice Cream Ltd, Wanganui
1927? - 1967
"Super Cold Glacier Ice Cream" sold in Levin 1938-39. Manager L.S.
Catterick. Took over E-Tan in 1944? Acquired by and became a subsidiary of Frozen
Products Ltd, Wellington (Frosty Jack). Frozen Products sold their whole ice
cream business to Vestey Group in 1965, then Vestey sold their ice cream business
to Unilver (Walls brand) and this became Walls' Palmerston North factory.
Greenfield & Hanson
Wellington
Groombridge
Groombridge Bros., Fielding
Hart's
Hart's Frozen Novelties Ltd / Hart's Delight Ice Cream Ltd / Hart's Ice
Cream Ltd, 152 Greenlane Road, Auckland
1943 - 1966
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Havmor
Nelson
1950s-60s?
Ivory brothers. "The Havmor Shop, Milk Shake & Ice Cream Specialists" (photo
in Nelson Provincial Museum). Taken over by Tip Top.
Hostess
? - 196?
Innes'
Innes Super-Cold Ice Cream Co. Ltd, New Plymouth
195? - 196?
L.G. Innes. Previously Egmont Frozen Products??
Jamieson
Jamieson Brothers Ltd
Wanganui
Jumbo
Greenfield & Hansen Ltd, 7 Herbert St, Wellington
195? - 196?
J. Greenfield & H.B. Hansen
Kapai
1930s
"Chocolate coated icelets" and "snow blocks". Possibly purchased
by Tip Top - "Tip-Top Kapai Block Slice".
Kerridge's Ice Cream
Auckland
Kerridge's manufactured ice cream to supply its chain of cinemas. Purchased
by Tip Top.
Koola
Koola Ice Cream and Cold Storage Company Ltd
211 Main St West, Palmerston North.
1937 - ?
La Grande Ice Cream take-home packaging, ca. 1977.
- Rod Dennis.
La
Grande
La Grande Ice Cream / Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Co., Petone, Wellington
197? - 1978?
Bill Coates. Purchased by Rangitaiki Plains Dairy Co. in 1974. Brand
discontinued some time after RPD purchased Wall's ice cream in 1975.
Lindeman
A. Lindeman & Co., (New Zealand Ice Works), Cnr Monteal & Tuam
St's, Christchurch.
1878 - 1879
Longs
Longs Ice Cream, Mahia, Hawke's Bay.
1920? - ?
Robert (Bob) Long, an Irishman who had emigrated to New Zealand after
WWI.
Lucky Ice Cream
Lucky Ice Cream Co. Ltd., Westport
? - 1961
Robertson Brothers. Previously known as Elite. Taken over by General
Foods Corp (Tip Top) in 1961.
Mac's Ice Cream sign, unknown date.
- Carole Prentice.
Mac's Ice Cream
W.L. McKinnon Ltd., Whangarei
1918 - 196?
"Mac" McKinnon began making ice cream for his father's Marble Bar,
the first shop in Whangarei to install an ice cream cabinet. Used an Emery Thompson
churn, ice from the local dairy company, and salt. From 1938 W.L. McKinnon Ltd
was also the licensed manufacturer of Tip Top ice cream for the Northland region.
New factory built in 1948. By 1953 the company had a fleet of five delivery vehicles.
Taken over by Tip Top in the early 1960s.
Manda
Manda Ice Cream, Invercargill
1963 - 1997?
Brian & Jeanette Simon & family. Sold the business to Millar
Lange in 1978. Millar Lange sold the ice cream operation to Goodman Fielder
(who at that time owned Tip Top) in 1982, and the Manda brand to United
Dairy Foods (who also made New American brand ice cream). United Dairy
Foods re-opened the old Manda factory and produced Manda brand ice cream
for several years. United Dairy Foods sold to Tip Top in 1997 - unclear
when the Manda brand was discontinued. The Simons started up Deep South
Ice Cream in 1979.
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Marshall
W. Marshall, Lambton Quay, Wellington
1875 - ?
Mays
Mays Ice Cream Ltd., Taihape
1926 - 1967
First ice cream made by a Mr Saunders in 1914. He sold the business to
a Mr Orr, thence to a Mr Shay, then sold to a Mr Quirk. Taken over by
W.T. "Tom" May in 1926. Mays Ice Cream Ltd registered in 1949.
McDonald's Ice Cream delivery truck, 1951.
- Frostee Digest.
McDonald's
McDonald Ice Cream Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Alexandra St. / Bryce St.,
Hamilton / Kings Drive, Auckland / 10 Quay St., Auckland / Main Street
West, Palmerston North / Wellington / Masterton / Hawera.
1922 - 1958
Angus Keith McDonald. Started making ice cream in 1922, Hamilton. Registered
McDonald Ice Cream Manufacturing Company, Ltd. in February 1925 with
capital of £5000. Palmerston North factory opened 1927 and Wellington
branch opened November 1928. Branches at Masterton, Hawera. "Mr
McDonald is recognised as the most experienced ice cream maker in the
Dominion. His plant, too, is of the very latest type. Ice cream is freshly
made in both factories every day and delivered per motor-vans (properly
insulated) to all parts of the Wellington, Wairarapa, and Manawatu and
Oroua districts." McDonald's Super-Cold Ice Cream, Wellington, J.
McDonald. A. K. McDonald (Auckland), Ltd. company registered 16 December
1929. Fro Joys. Invested in New Polar Ice Cream? The first Neapolitan
Ice Cream? New Polar taken over by Peters in 1932. Taken over by Tip
Top (Auckland) in (December?) 1958.
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McDonald's
McDonald's Dairy / McDonald's Super Cold Ice Cream, 6 Park Rd / 73 Miramar Ave,
Miramar,
Wellington
193? - 1963
McDonald's Dairy and milk bar operated from the 1930s. Joe and Eileen
McDonald. In the 1940s, tickets to the Capitol theatre across the street
could
be purchased at the dairy. An ice cream
factory
was
built
behind
the
dairy-milk
bar, accessed from 73 Miramar Ave.. Ice cream sold under the McDonald's brand.
During
WW2
Joe
joined
the
Army
and
made
ice cream for the troops on the Patriotic Fund-supplied NZEF ice cream plant
in New
Caledonia. In 1963, they replaced the McDonald's brand with "Mel-O-Rich".
Company
name
became
Mel-O-Rich Products Ltd. See Mel-O-Rich below.
Meadow Gold
Meadow Gold Ice Cream Company Ltd, Great South Road, Papatoetoe/40 Cook
St, Auckland
1951 - 1967
Formed with the amalgamation of two smaller Auckland manufacturers, Snowflake
Ice Cream Co., and Oasis Ice Cream Ltd. Factory on Great South Road,
Papatoetoe. Meadow Gold Ice Cream Company Ltd commenced operations on
1 November
1951. Manager Alister Scott of
Wellington. Jim Webber, Bill Gough, Frank Iles, Roy Scott. Purchased
by Frozen Products Ltd (a public company) which already owned Frosty
Jack
Ice Cream
Ltd
(Wellington and Palmerston North), Glacier (Wanganui) and Wise's (Gisborne).
Frozen Products Ltd was sold to Fropax, part of the Vestey Group (meat
processors, Blue Star Line shipping) in 1965.
Fropax then sold the Palmerston North and Papatoetoe factories to Unilever
around 1967 - Unilever discontinued the Meadow Gold brand to produce
their own Walls brand. The Papatoetoe factory continued to produce Wall's
ice cream into the 1980s.
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