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5 unusual facts about Dreyer's


Dreyer's

, a subsidiary of Nestlé, is a United States-based producer of ice cream and frozen yogurt founded in 1928 as Edy's Grand Ice Cream in Oakland, California by Joseph Edy and William Dreyer.

2006: Dreyer's Whiskey Bottom Ice Cream plant in Laurel, Maryland, is expanded to give Dreyer's the two largest ice cream plants in the United States.

Rick Cronk

William F. "Rick" Cronk (born 4 October 1942) is an American businessman who was co-owner and president of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream.

Though not a failure, the chain struggled and then in 1977 Cronk and close friend and associate, T. Gary Rogers, purchased Dreyer's, which was then a popular ice cream company operating exclusively in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Swisher Hygiene

It was known for its Eskimo Pie and Chipwich brands, which in February 2007, CoolBrands announced the sale of to the Dreyer's division of Nestlé.


Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771

Among the victims were Frans Dreyer, brother of South African Member of Parliament Anchen Dreyer.

Castle of Doom

Vampyr, a 1932 French-German horror film directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer

Charterhouse Group

Among Charterhouse's most notable investments, since its founding in the 1970s, are Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Cencom Cable Television, Charter Communications, Cornell Companies, Del Monte Corporation, Fleer Corporation, Insignia Financial Group, Lason, Amerifit Brands, Suddenlink Communications and MXenergy.

Chipwich

CoolBrands, the country's second-largest ice cream distributor, bought the Chipwich brand in 2002, and sold it in 2007 to Dreyer's division of Nestlé who has stopped production of the original Chipwich because it competed with its own chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich.

Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream

Since then, it has been imitated widely by such brands as Häagen-Dazs, Breyers, Baskin-Robbins, Dreyer's, and Turkey Hill.

Dekker Dreyer

Dreyer attended Douglas Anderson School of the Arts for visual art and has continued to produce artwork in a variety of styles including 3D sketches.

Günter Dreyer

In 1998 Dreyer found writing on small ivory labels, he concluded that these challenged the prevailing view that the first people to write were the Sumerians of Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) sometime before 3000 BCE.

Jaida Dreyer

Jaida Dreyer is an American-Canadian country music singer-songwriter, and a world champion equestrian, who is signed to Streamsound Records, a label founded in 2012 by Byron Gallimore.

Kevin Dreyer

Dreyer is a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology(USITT), United Scenic Artists 829 and the International Alliance of Theatre and Stage Employees (IATSE).

King, Queen, Knave

The name Mr. Vivian Badlook also appears in the text, a "fellow skier and teacher of English," who photographs Dreyer in Davos, another anagram of Vladimir Nabokov.

Percy Scott

In 1903 Dreyer had described a device, later developed by Vickers and Scott as the Vickers range clock; it automatically kept track of the changing range to an enemy ship.

Pete Kovachevich

Kindred Spirit enjoyed the endorsement and played with several NYC jam band scene Illuminati including God Street Wine, The Authority, Spin Doctors, Widespread Panic, Phish, The Worms, The Jono Manson Band, Xanax 25, Milo Z, Comfort, Blues Traveler, Gov't Mule, The Dreyer Bros, The Choosy Mothers, innerSoul.

T. Gary Rogers

He was the CEO and he and Cronk were managers and principal shareholders of Dreyer's for almost 30 years, until the company was acquired by Nestlé in 2006.

Wells Enterprises

Wells is the third largest ice cream maker in the United States, with five percent market share behind Nestlé (Häagen-Dazs, Dreyer's, Mövenpick) and Unilever (Ben & Jerry's and Breyers Ice Cream).


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