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Alpine
Ice Cream signage, 1950s. Eric Lee-Johnson.
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Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Reg.
No. O.008329.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Taken over by Snowflake.
Burrells
Burrells Products Ltd., Palmerston North.
Jimmy Burrel.
Byers
Ice Cream delivery truck, 1948. Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd.
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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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about Collins at longwhitekid
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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? - 196?
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
? - 1972
Ice
cream carton, Crystal Ice Co Ltd, Dunedin.
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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.
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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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about Dustin's at longwhitekid ...
E-Tan
Ice Cream delivery truck,
Auckland Weekly News, 9 October 1929.
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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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about Elbe's
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Eldora
Takapuna Dairy Company Ltd., cnr. Mozeley Avenue and Victoria Road, Devonport,
Auckland
1928 - 1964
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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.
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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 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. 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.
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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about Hart's at longwhitekid...
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, late 1950s.
- 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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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 and purchased by Frozen Products Ltd, Wellington.
Meadow Gold Ice Cream Company Ltd commenced operations on 1 November 1951. Manager
Alister Scott, Wellington. Frozen
Products
Ltd
(a
public
company)
owned
Frosty
Jack
Ice
Cream
Ltd
(Wellington
and Palmerston North), Glacier (Wanganui),
Meadow Gold Ice Cream Ltd (Papatoetoe), 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.
MEMORIES ... Jos had a school holiday job at Meadow Gold:
"I worked there for two or three years starting when I was 14 (nearly 15).
I lied about my age as I think you needed to be 15. The job that most people
hated was
one called "sticks". This was placing the TT2 " sticks",
wood
handles in a mould and shutting a clamp ready for the operators to pour the ice
block fluid into the mould. I made a competition with myself to keep ahead of
the pourers. Also remember folding the little, 4pd, cardboard
cartons to be filled by an older woman who was the expert at keeping up with
the ice cream pumping out of the big machine. Incidentally, I found the address,
on the corner of Great South Rd and Caspar Rd, Papatoetoe, just under 6kms
away
from our family home in Otahuhu. 6kms there, work 8hrs,
6kms home by push bike. Must have had more energy then."
- thanks to Jos Douglas
(nee Stanaway)
Mel-O-Rich
Miramar, Wellington
Orginally McDonald's Dairy, corner of Park Rd & Hobart St. Became Mel-O-Rich
Products Ltd, and later moved to the end of Park Rd (site now occupied by Weta).
Changed
name
around
2000 to
The New Zealand Ice Cream Company Ltd. Taken over by Kiwi Ice Cream (now
known
as Much
Moore) in 2004.
John Murphy. Mel-O-Rich, Mel-O-Pop, Calci-Lite, Divine brands.
Moa
Moa Ice Cream Co., Sulphur Point, Tauranga
1930? - 195?
Factory later became the Tip Top agency depot.
Mooloo
Mooloo Products Ltd / Mooloo Products (2005) Ltd, 32 Grasslands Place, Hamilton
1969 - 2007
The van der Giessen family; father Henk, son Rob. Ice cream cakes a speciality. Sold
to Chris
Woodham in 2005. The cost of upgrading the factory to meet NZFSA standards became
too
high
and
the business was closed down in June 2007.
Moore's
Moore's Ice Cream Company, 262 Ponsonby Road, Auckland.
195? - 196?
Munro's
See
Rush Munro's ...
Neville's
Neville's Ltd., New Plymouth
New American
New American Ice Cream, 205 Broadway, Newmarket / Khyber Pass, Newmarket / United
Dairy
Foods,
50
Luke
St., Otahuhu.
1942 - 1998?
Christopher Montague Peck. The original New American Milk Bar was at 205 Broadway
(cnr
Teed
St), Newmarket, with a very small factory behind the shop. Ice cream plant believed
to
have
been
supplied
by
the
American
Armed
Forces to
provide
ice cream to US troops stationed in Auckland. Murray Taylor, Russell Bond (both
ex-Tip
Top)
took
over
the
business
in 1977.
Moved
to
Khyber
Pass
after 12 months as
production
expanded.
then
built a brand new factory in Otahuhu (1984?). Around this time, the parent company
became United Dairy Foods Ltd. At
its
peak, UDF operated factories in Otahuhu, Tokomaru and Invercargill, with contract
manufacturing by Alpine Dairy in Christchurch. Goody Goody Gum Drops. Polar Pops.
NZ Dairy Group took full ownership in 1993.
Auckland
plant
and New American brand acquired
by
Tip
Top
in
1996-1998. New American was continued by Tip Top as a secondary brand for a few
years after that.
New Polar
New Polar Ice Cream Company Ltd, Station St., Newmarket, Auckland.
1929 - 1932.
Registered 19 September 1929. "Objects: To acquire and carry on the business
of the Polar Ice Cream Company,
Ltd". A merger with Robinsons and Astrella ice cream companies was announced
in
July 1930
but this fell through. New Polar Ice Cream Company Ltd in
liquidation
27
April
1931. Taken over by Peters Ice Cream Co. (NZ) Ltd in 1932. "Peter's
New
Polar
Ice
Cream" still being sold
December
1932.
Newell's
Newell's Ice Cream Ltd.
Newjoy
Newjoy Ice Cream Ltd, 381 Cumberland St., Dunedin
1939 - 1964
Max Simon. Sold to Crystal Ice Cream, Dunedin in 1961, which in turn was taken
over
by
General Foods Corp (Tip
Top) in 1964.
More
about Newjoy
...
Oasis
Oasis Ice Cream /
The Oasis Ice Cream Ltd [ex The Oasis Milk Bars Ltd], 68 Vincent St, / 40 Cook
St., Auckland.
1938 - 1952.
R.M. Byford.
Okay
Okay Ice Cream Ltd.
1941 - ?
V. Astrella and M.J. Astrella. Registered November 1941.
Patton's
Patton's Ice Cream, Grey St., Claudelands, Hamilton.
1927 - ?
Previously Zero brand?
Paul's
Paul's Ice Cream (NZ) Ltd/The Paul's Ice Cream (NZ) Ltd
Registered March 1938. Closed 1949.
Peck
Industry Rd, Otahuhu
Jay Peck. Son of the original owner of New American Ice Cream. Manufactured 'Choc
Bombs' under contract to New American. Sold the business to Frank Gilbert
who started Chateau Creme Delight Ice Cream Co., which in turn was purchased
by Emerald
Foods.
Peerless
Oamaru Ice Cream Co., Oamaru
Gordon Bell.
Peerless
Wanganui
Penguin
Penguin Ice Cream Ltd., Auckland
194? - 1959
Taken over by Rosco Ice Cream (Ross Supercold) in 1959.
Perfection
Perfection Ice Cream Co. Ltd
300 Manchester Street, Christchurch
1926 - 1967?
Founded 1926. Involved in a three-way merger with Tai Tapu Dairy Company and
ice
cream manufacturer W.R.
Cooke & Son Ltd in 1929. GM
Frank
Wright,
Factory
Manager
Dennis
Amos.
Inventors
of
the "Joy
Bar".
The
factory included a 50 person capacity air raid trench which was put in during
WWII by
Christchurch architecture firm Trengrove and Blunt. Taken over
by Tip Top in the late 60s.
More
...
Peter Pan
Denne's Ice Cream / Peter Pan Ice Cream, Waipukurau / Tip Top Ice Cream
1939 - 199?
Denne family. Sold to Tip Top in 1977, but the brand survived into the 1990s.
More
about Peter Pan at longwhitekid ...
Peter's
Peters Ice Cream Co. (NZ) Ltd, Station St., Newmarket / 10 Teed St, Newmarket,
Auckland.
1930 - 1952
Registered December 1930 with capital of £200, main shareholder F. H. Whitham.
J. A. Gentles (Chair),
P.H.
Ferguson,
Directors
in
1931.
Originated
from
the
Australian
ice
cream
co.
of
the
same
name.
"The Health Food of a Nation" - same by-line used for Peters ice cream
in
Australia.
Branch
factories
in
Hamilton,
Whangarei. "Hav-A-Heart" novelty.
Took over New Polar Ice Cream in 1932. Purchased ice cream factories in Rotorua
and Whakatane from the Arawa Dairy Company Ltd in 1933. Still selling Polar Bars
in
1936.
E.
J.
Rixon,
Manager
in
1938.
H.
R.
Ayers,
Secretary
1939. Acquired
by
Tip
Top in 1952.
Phantazzi
Phantazzi Ice Cream Limited, Invercargill.
1928 - 1939
Max Simon began
making ice cream in a garage at the Appleby Hotel, storing ice cream in a freezer
at Millers bakery. Built
a
factory
ca.
1934/35.
Sold
the business around 1939 and moved to Dunedin where he set up Newjoy Ice Cream. Son
Brian Simon went on to found Manda and Deep South ice cream businesses.
More
about Phantazzi ...
Philadelphia
The Milk Depot, Dixon St, Wellington
1915? - 1916?
A, Aislabie. The Philadelphia Ice Cream contained "33 1/3 percent of pure cream".
Price
increase
effective
1
March
1916
to
6
shillings
per
gallon.
Pinnacle
Southland Ice Cream Co. Ltd, Invercargill
193? - ?
Fred Blick. Later changed brand to "Sunkist".
Polar
Polar Ice Cream Co., Station St., Newmarket, Auckland
1924 - 1929
Manufactured Eskimo Pies. Polar Bar, Rainbow Blox. Dick Naylor. Taken over by
New
Polar
Ice
Cream
Co.
in September
1929.
Popsicle
Registered trademark 9 October 1925.
John Elliott Winsloe of Invercargill. Winsloe, a Southland Land Agent and Secretary
of the Southland
League,
had
travelled
to
America
in 1924 as
part
of a New Zealand government tourism publicity campaign.
1925? - 1930
I.C. Watkins & Sons, Otahuhu, Auckland.
1930 - 1932
Arctic Ice Cream Company Ltd., Pukeiti Rd., Otahuhu, Auckland.
Arctic took over I.C. Watkins & Sons. Mr W.J. Logan.
Exclusive
NZ rights
to the "Popsicle" brand.
Quality
Quality Ice Cream Ltd, Dunedin.
1946? - 1951
Ivan Paterson, R.C. Hitchcox. Set up after WW2 using armed forces equipment from
New
Caledonia
. Purchased by Crystal in 1951.
Quality Inn
Christchurch
J.S.V. Bott
Quality Inn
Westland Snowflake Ice Cream Co, Greymouth
Queen Anne
Adams Bruce Ltd, College Street, Wellington
1926 - 1995?
Ernest Adams and Hugh Bruce. Nationwide chain of Adams Bruce and Queen Anne shops
sold Queen Anne brand chocolates and ice cream. The Wellington Queen Anne factory
closed down in 1976, but the brand was acquired by Westland Snowflake, Greymouth,
who
continued
to manufacture Queen Anne Ice Cream up until the late 1990s.
More ...
Reale Ice Cream
The Reale Ice Cream Co Ltd, South Dunedin
1936 - 1968?
Eddie Quin - three generations worked for the business, all called Eddie. Eddie
(senior) had previously been Manager of Royal Ice Cream. No factory - in 1936,
Quin Sr. was
in
negotiations
with
a
pickle factory to set up premises when Mr H.C. Hart of Crystal Ice Cream proposed
that they manufacture
ice
cream
for Reale, and loan them refrigeration equipment to get them started. This relationship
lasted
for
over
30
years. "Realettes" (4d), "Esquimo Pies"(!), Ice Cream Bricks.
Renown
The Renown Products Ltd [ex The Ice Cream Ltd]
1941 - 1948
Rice's
Ice Cream sign (re-drawn), 1950s?
-
Darian Zam.
Rice's
Rice Brothers / Rice's Ice Cream Co., Invercargill
Oswald Rice Snr had established a successful confectionery business in Dunedin,
then moved to Timaru from where his sons established branches in Wanganui, Napier
and Greymouth.
Oswald moved to Invercargill in 1895. Rice's sweet shop in Wanganui was producing
and
selling
ice cream
in
1917.
Three
sons
Ossie,
Cyril
and
Percy
Rice took over the running of the business in 1920 when Oswald Snr retired.
During WW2 sugar rationing caused Rice's Confectionery to look at ice cream production
as
a supplement to the business. Ossie toured the North Island to learn about the
ice cream business, and acquired equipment to set up a factory in Invercargill,
originally just to supply their own confectionery shops. Demand grew and Rice's
Ice Cream Co., was formed. This led to the supply of freezers to retailers, and
Rice
Refrigeration
was
formed in 1951. The ice cream business was sold
to
Crystal
Ice
of
Dunedin
in
1961,
which
was
in
turn
purchased
by
General
Foods
(Tip
Top)
in
1964.
Righton's
Ice Cream advertisement,
Whakatane Beacon, 11 December 1939.
Righton's
A. Righton, Wairere St., Whakatane
193? - 195?
Arthur Righton had an aerated water and cordial factory.
Also produced A.
Righton Ginger Beer.
Rob
Roy Ice Cream (Dunedin) fruited ice cream carton,
1 pint, 1960s.
-
ourheritage.ac.nz.
Rob Roy
Rob Roy Ice Cream Co Ltd., 1 Stafford St., Dunedin
1960 - 1965
Stan Johnston, ex-Royal Ice Cream.
In receivership September 1964.
Rob Roy
Tartan Ice Cream Company Limited, 14th Avenue, Tauranga.
1948 - 195?
The Tartan Ice Cream Company Limited was established
by Charles Cameron, a refrigeration engineer and Fisher & Paykel
appliance dealer, Rob (Bob) Smith, the proprietor of the Tauranga Milk Company,
and Roy Gallagher an accountant and friend of the other two.
The factory, operating an Emery Thompson batch churn, was in 14th Avenue, next
door
to the Tauranga Milk Company's
pasteurizing
and bottling plant. Not long after starting
up, Auckland aereated water manufacturer Grey & Menzies advised them to stop
using the "Tartan" brand which they had registered for all foodstuffs.
Of course that meant changing packaging and signage (including the company's
first van, a small refrigerated Ford), but Cameron and Smith's Scottish
heritage
was
retained,
and
the
ice
cream
was
re-branded "Rob
Roy". Choc Bombs, "Rob Roy" and "Kiltie Lick" bars.
Jim Winstanley (ex-Frosty Jack, Wellington and Arctic Ice Cream, Hastings)
joined
the company as Manager
in
the
early
50s.
Taken
over
by
Tip
Top
(late
1950s?),
at
which
point
production
ceased
and
Tip
Top moved
its
local
depot
to
the
Rob
Roy
site.
Robison's
Westport.
19?? - 196?
Taken over by Tip Top.
Robinson's
The Robinson Ice Cream Company Ltd, 22 James St. / Putiki St., Arch Hill, Auckland.
1912 - 1953
The Robinson family came from England, where they had been making ice cream since
1878. Ted Robinson founded the Auckland company, originally manufacturing in
a small shed on the corner of Putiki and Waima Streets, Arch Hill. The Robinson
Ice
Cream
Company was
registered
as
a
public
company
in
1924 with a capital of £36,000.
James Bentley. Manager
P
H
Ferguson
(1927).
Robinson's obtained the sole license to manufacture and distribute
Eskimo
Pies
for the Auckland province
in
1929 and installed new equipment.
In 1930, a merger with the Astrella Dominion and New
Polar Ice Cream Co's was proposed, but this fell through.
After
Bentley's death, Dick
Naylor became G.M. Robbie's
Ice Cream Sundaes, "with pure fruit topping; serves 6", advertised
on milk bottles. Rainbow Blocks, Snow Ice. Acquired
Alpine
Ice
Cream
Company, Huntly in 1939. Branch factory in Devonport and depot in Whangarei.
Taken
over
by
Tip
Top (Auckland) in 1953.
Rosco
Rosco Ice Cream Ltd. / Ross Supercold Ice Cream Ltd., Hamilton /Palmerston
North
1940 - 1964
Ice Cream Slices. Jack Ross, Murray Ross, Bill van Rij, Ron Griffiths. Jack Ross
was a milk vendor, then opened the Monte Carlo Milkbar in Hamilton around 1934.
Began
making
ice
cream
in
1940. In 1959 Rosco
took
over
Carbies
Ice
Cream and Penguin Ice Cream in Auckland and Burrell's Ice
Cream, Palmerston North. In
receivership
1962.
Taken
over
by the Crystal group (Crystal, Royal, Newjoy, Rice's, and Sunkist brands) in
1963,
which
itself
was
taken
over
by
General
Foods
(Tip
Top brand) in 1964.
Royal
The Dunedin Ice Cream Manufacturing Co., Moray Pl. / Ward St., Dunedin
1924 - 1960?
E.R. Quin ran a marble bar in George St., obtaining his supplies of ice cream
from a small local producer. Concerned about quality issues with the arrival
of the Pure Food Act, he decided to go into the manufacturing business himself,
and to raise the capital required (£1500), formed The Dunedin Ice Cream
Manufacturing
Co. Ltd. in 1924 to produce Royal brand ice cream. An advertisement in the Otago
Daily Times in September 1924 stated that the new product's met the requirements
of the Pure Food Act in every way:
Dunedin, August 23, 1924.
The Manager, Dunedin
Ice Cream Company, Dunedin.
Dear Sir,—I have to report as follows on sample
of Ice Cream: Sample examined was of excellent, flavour, and on analysis contained;
Total solids, 36.66 per cent.; fat, 11.28 percent.; salts, .82 per cent. The
sample complies with the Public Health Regulations covering the Sale of Ice Cream,
and, according to this analysis, is an excellent article of food.
—Yours
faithfully, P. P. Lynch, M. B., Ch.B., B.Sc., Analyst.
Often referred to as the Royal Ice Cream Company. "Ask for 'Royal', it's
the
Creamy
Ice Cream". "It's
good,
and
good
for
you". By 1930 Royal was selling from Ashburton to the Bluff, and all through
Central
Otago.
Len Malaghan
(co-founder of Tip Top) was ice cream maker from 1931 to 1935.
Royal was the first company in New Zealand to install the "Waltham" refrigeration
system using triangular cartridges about 2ft. x 4ins., filled with a chemical,
probably calcium chloride. Several would be placed in the shopkeeper's wooden
cabinet and every day they would be replaced with freshly frozen ones, a great
improvement on ice and salt.
The making of ice was a large part of the ice cream business. About 5 tons would
be made daily. A certain amount would be crushed and used with salt for freezing
ice cream. The rest would be sold to butchers, fish merchants, hotels and householders.
Royal also sold and delivered bottled cream and manufactured butter - the last
proprietary company to be granted a licence for the manufacture
of butter. They produced European -style lactic butter that was very popular.
"Royalettes",
were chocolate-coated ice cream bars, similar to Eskimo
Pies.
The company was taken to
court
over Royalettes' similarity to the Eskimo Pie, by Charles Bertram Colby of Los
Angeles, who held the patent rights for Eskimo Pie in New Zealand.
Colby lost the case. Supplied
ice
cream
to
the
first
Tip
Top
mik bars,
1935 - 1936. L. Scott. Controlling interest purchased by Tip Top (Auckland) in
1959, to take advantage of the company's distribution rights for Wattie's frozen
foods.
Taken
over
by
Crystal
Ice,
which
was
in
turn
taken
over
by General Foods (Tip Top) in 1964.
Royal
Thames
? - 1950
Taken over by Tip Top in 1950.
Ruapehu
Ruapehu Ice Cream Company Limited, Taumaranui.
? - 1968.
Ernie Manson.
Mrs Martin.
Rudkin's
Rudkin's Lolly Shop, Stratford.
1924? - 1926?
Rush Munro's / Rush Munro / Munro's
Karangahape Rd, Auckland /704 Heretaunga St West,
Hastings
1917 - now.
New Zealand's oldest surviving ice cream brand. Englishman Frederick Charles
Rush-Munro
started
selling
ice
cream
in
Auckland
in 1917. He got into financial difficulties and moved
to the Hawke's Bay in 1926, opening
a new Rush Munro shop in central Hastings.
After the premises were destroyed in the devastating 1931 earthquake, he and
his wife Catherine moved the business to the current site at 704 Heretaunga Street
West,
the
shop
evolving
into the famous Rush Munro's Ice Cream Gardens.
More
about Rush Munro's ...
Snowball
Ice Cream truck, thought to be a Christmas Parade at Richmond Race
Course,
1930s.
-
Bob Jamieson.
Snowball
Snowball Ice Cream Ltd., Parere St., / Carlton Hygienic Dairy Co., Bridge St.,
Nelson.
192? - 194?
"A Food not a Fad". "Often
licked
but
never
beaten". Business under liquidation and purchased by a Mr W.H. Fish (Fisk?)
in September 1931. Parere St, phone 1168. By
1937 Snowball was being produced by accountant Walter Heaps "under Power of Attorney
from the Proprietor, who is absent from New Zealand" from the Carlton Hygienic
Dairy Co. factory in Bridge St. "“CARLTON” BUTTER now made
by a holder of the South Island Championship, and “SNOWBALL” ICE
CREAM are also manufactured in the same Factory, which, due to having the contract
for supplying milk to the School Children, is under the strictest Government
supervision daily."
Sno-Peak
Auckland
Snowcraft
Nelson
Snowdrop
Snowdrop Ice Cream Co., 141 East St, Ashburton (opp. Railway Station)
1942 - 1970?
Percy Bates. Ian Paterson. Mr King. Super Cold. Cherry Brandy slices launched
in 1955.
More
about Snowdrop at longwhitekid
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Snowdrop
Taylor's Snowdrop Ice Cream Factory, 4 Devonport Lane, Christchurch.
1924 - 192?
Charles Herman Dohrman, John Cecil Taylor, James William Taylor.
Snowflake / Westland
Snowflake
The Riversdale Dairy / Snowflake Ice Cream Co. / Westland Snowflake Ice Cream
Co,
/ West Coast Snowflake, 79
Taylorville
Road, Greymouth
1925 - 2010
Owen Norton.
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...
Snowflake
Snowflake Ice Cream Ltd, corner Great South Road and Puhinui Rd, Papatoetoe
1938? - 1951
W.G. Lunn during the 1940s. Rita and George Aagard took over the business in
1949, selling it to Meadow Gold in 1951.
Sunkist
Southland Ice Cream Co. Ltd, Invercargill
193? - 196?
Fred Blick . After Fred's retirement in 1939, management was taken over by Jim
Stewart of Dunedin Ice Cream Manufacturing Co. Ltd (Royal brand). Purchased
by
Crystal
Ice
Ltd,
which
was
in
turn
purchased
by
General
Foods
(Tip
Top)
in
1964.
Sunshine Ice Cream
Baty Brothers, Greymouth
Sunshine
Phipps, Westport
Sunshine
Sunshine Ice Cream Company, Trafalgar St, Nelson
1941 - 1954
Ralph and Irene Thomas. Choc Bombs. Started as a fruit & veg shop, added
milk
bar
in 1936, selling
Tip
Top
ice
cream,
then started own ice cream production in 1941. Bought
by
Tip
Top in 1954.
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...
Sunshine
Sunshine Ice Cream Company, Alexandra
193? - 1950
Wilbur Clarke. Jumbo Bars, Rainbow Bars. Sold to Crystal Ice Cream in 1950.
Also,
Sunshine Ice Cream Company, Levin
Super Cold
? - 196?
A refrigeration equipment supplier's co-branding exercise, incorporated into
several
ice cream brands. "Super
Cold" was the brand used by manufacturers using equipment supplied by H.W.
Clarke,
a
refrigeration
engineering
and
equipment company based in Wellington.
Supercream
Timaru Ice Cream Co. Ltd
1950? - ?
Supreme Ice
Cream fruited ice cream carton,
1 pint, circa 1960.
- ourheritage.ac.nz.
Supreme
Le Grand
Lounge
Co.
/ Supreme Ice Cream Company / Supreme Dairies Ltd. / Supreme Frozen Products,
Cannon St. / Sophia
St. / King St.,
Timaru
1929 - 1963
The original Supreme Ice Cream brand was launched in November 1929 by Mr F H
Saunders, owner
of the
Le
Grand
Lounge
at 320 Stafford St,
Timaru,
manufacturing from a factory in
Cannon
St, just around the corner. The ice cream operation was purchased about 18 months
later by
H
T
(Tom)
Dunn,
a
Clandeboye dairy
farmer
who
also operated a
local fresh milk delivery business, and the Supreme Ice Cream Company
was registered on 1 August 1931.
All
of
Dunn's
five
sons
(Tom
Jr,
Harold,
Lloyd,
Murray
and
Max)
were
involved
in
the
business
at
different
times.
Tendered for and won the South Canterbury contract for the supply of the new
Labour government's Milk in Schools scheme in 1937 and changed the company name
to Supreme
Dairies
on
1 May
that
year.
In
1941
Supreme
Dairies
was
advertising Ice Cream Sandwich, Ice Cream Bomb as well as 6d and 1/- Blocks.
In 1950 a new Supreme Frozen
Products
operation
was established, pioneering
frozen freeflow
peas in New Zealand. Supreme brand frozen vegetables and berries were sold nationally.
The ice cream operation opened branches in Dunedin and Invercargill. The frozen
foods business was taken over by Fropax (N.Z.) Ltd in 1957. The
ice
cream business was taken
over
by
General Foods (Tip
Top)
in
February 1963.
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...
Swensen's
Swensen's Ice Cream Co (NZ 1987) Ltd, Auckland
1987 - 199?
Graeme Benney. The American ice cream parlour
chain,
Swensen's, entered the NZ market in 1987. Ice cream was made under licence
and
supplied
to
New
Zealand
Swensen's franchise outlets.
Tartan
Tartan Ice Cream Company Limited, 14th Avenue, Tauranga.
1949
Established by Charles Cameron, a refrigeration engineer and Fisher & Paykel
appliance dealer, Rob (Bob) Smith, the proprietor of the Tauranga Milk Company,
and Roy Gallagher an accountant. The factory was in 14th Avenue, next door to
the Tauranga Milk Company's pasteurizing and bottling plant. Not long after starting
up, Auckland aereated water manufacturer Grey & Menzies advised them to stop
using the "Tartan" brand which they had registered
for all foodstuffs. Of course that meant changing packaging and signage, but
the
Scottish
flavour
was
retained,
and
the
ice
cream
was
re-branded "Rob
Roy".
Tiritea
Tiritea Milk Supply Co., 6 Fitzherbert Ave., Palmerston North.
1927? - 1930?
Cinema
advertisement (glass slide) for Top Notch Ice Cream, circa 1950.
-
David Peterson.
Top Notch
Top Notch Delicacies Ltd., Durham St., Christchurch
193? - 1960
Set up by the Kirkpatrick brothers. Mr S.M. Duff, Manager, later Harold Woodfield.
Directors
J.
Roy
Smith,
Geoff
Atkinson.
Ice Cream Sandwiches, Chocolate Bombs. The
third
largest
ice
cream
manufacturer
in
Christchurch
during
WW2, after Perfection and Apex. Taken over by Apex Ice Cream Co. Ltd.,
effective
1
July
1960. Apex itself was taken over by General Foods (Tip Top brand) later that
year. Tip Top revived the Top Notch brand in 2016.
Tui
? - 196?
Van Kist
Velvet
Velvet Ice Cream Co Ltd., Hamilton
1919 - 1927?
Wall's
1966 - 198?
Unilever purchased Frozen Products (Frosty Jack, Meadow Gold) factories from
Fropax (N.Z.) Ltd (Vestey Group , frozen vegetable and meat processors, Blue
Star
Line
shipping),
and
dropped
the
Frosty Jack brand to launch their own international Walls brand in New Zealand.
Walls became the second-largest ice cream manufacturer, with a full range of
novelties and national sales coverage.
Unilever
sold the business
to
Rangitaiki
Plains
Dairy Co. in 1975, who in turn sold the brand on to Tip Top around 1980.
Factories at Petone, Penrose, Papatoetoe, Palmerston North.
More
of the Wall's story here ...
Wanganui Aerated Water Ice Cream Company
Wanganui
? - 1938?
Ward's
Ward's Ice Cream, Queen St., Waimate / Factory Road, Washdyke, Timaru
1926 - 1983?
Mrs H. Ward, whose husband had a dairy farm,
began
hand-churning ice cream for her
El Paso Milk
Bar
in Waimate in 1922. In 1926, her son Mel went into partnership and concentrated
on ice cream production. He took over the ice cream making and progressed to
having
walk-in
freezers
at
the
back
of
the shop. By the 1950s, sales were being made to Timaru and Oamaru,
the ice cream being road-freighted in insulated canvas bags. Grandson Graeme
joined the business in 1960, around which time they acquired a 100 gallon capacity
churn, and began distributing to Dunedin.
Waimate
Super
Cold.
'A Product of Distinction'. Outgrowing the
Waimate factory, and being 'off the beaten track',
they decided to move production
in
1966, setting up a new operation in Factory Road, Washdyke, just north of Timaru. Graeme
took over the business when his father retired. Mel's
granddaughter
Leanne
has
fond
memories of visiting the factory and the chocolate bombs that Ward's Ice Cream
was known for. The factory
was
eventually
sold
to Cloverlea (in 1983?).
- Ward's ice cream pack graphic above copyright and courtesy
of
longwhitekid.
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about Ward's at longwhitekid
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Ward's
Ward's Ice Cream, Ponsonby
? - 1966?
Wise's
Ice Cream advertisement,
Poverty Bay Herald, 16 December 1936.
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PapersPast
Wise's
Wise's Ice Cream Ltd, 30 Derby St. / Palmerston Rd., Gisborne.
1932 - 1960
Frank H. Wise. Previously Freesia Ice Cream, company name and brand changed to
Wise's in
1932. Presumably after their Eskimo Pie license ended, Wise's produced "Alaska
Pies"
(1936-38).
"Victory"
Ice
Cream
Bombs
(1941).
New
factory
opened
in
1945,
in
the
building
previously
serving
as
Gisborne's
City
Hall.
Manager
J.
B.
Waugh
in
1957.
Taken
over
by
Frozen Products Ltd, Wellington (Frosty
Jack brand) in
July 1960. Frozen Products Ltd was taken over by Vestey Group in 1965, then Vestey
sold the ice cream
business
to Unilever (Walls brand ) in 1967. Wise's
Ice
Cream
Ltd
company
liquidated
in
1968.
Zenith
Zenith Milk Bar and ice cream manufacturing company, Stafford St., Timaru.
194? - 195?
Rodgers family. Bob Rodgers returned to the business after
WWII. He had been a Squadron Leader and Flight Commander in 75 (NZ) Squadron
RAF,
flying Lancaster bombers. He
later
worked
for
Apex
Ice
Cream
(Christchurch),
and
when
that
was
taken
over
by
General Foods - Tip
Top (1964), became Tip Top's South Island Manager.
Zero
Zero Ice Cream, Grey St., Claudelands, Hamilton.
1924 - 1926 ?
Brand name may have been changed to Patton's in 1927?
Special thanks to Darian Zam for his assistance in preparing this list -
see his extensive research into the history of New Zealand grocery brands at
longwhitekid:
http://longwhitekid.wordpress.com
Special thanks to Owen Norton, for his personal recollections
of the many brands, companies and individuals involved in the
ice cream industry over many years.
Thanks also to David
Peterson for permission to reproduce the Top Notch glass slide
cinema advertisement.
References, credits and related sites:
Andre Taber, food historian.
Archives New Zealand:
http://archives.govt.nz/
Auckland Libraries
Robyn O'Leary - personal correspondence.
Carole Prentice - personal correspondence.
Chris Cameron - personal correspondence.
Hawke's Bay Today
Leanne Taylor-Rose - personal correspondence.
Bob Jamieson - personal correspondence.
Longwhitekid - history of Peter
Pan,
Tip
Top,
Meadow
Gold,
Wall's, Hokey Pokey
ice cream,
and
much
more:
http://longwhitekid.wordpress.com
National Library
NZ Ice Cream Manufacturers Assn. archives.
OUR Heritage (Otago University Research Heritage)
http://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz
Papers Past (National Library of New Zealand digitised newspapers database):
http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/
NZ Ice Cream Manufacturers Assn. archives, and "Frostee Digest" journals,
1943-1972.
New Zealand Ice Cream Manufacturers' Association (NZICA) Oral History Project; held at NZICA archives and Alexander Turnbull Library.
- Shona McCahon, Oral historian.
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Frosty
Jack
Frosty Jack Ice Cream and Eskimo Pies advertisement, Evening
Post, 1930.
1924 - 1967
A new company, Frozen Products, Ltd., was formed in Wellington
in July 1924 "to manufacture, sell,
and distribute as wholesalers and retailers the confection
known as "Eskimo Pie", ice cream, and any other similar
class of goods, and general incidental."
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Ice
Cream Charlie
Photo: Sali Mahomet and ice cream cart, ca. 1903.
- Ferrymead Heritage Park.
1903 - 1942
Sali Mahomet began making ice cream and selling it from his red, white and gold
ice cream cart in Christchurch's Cathedral Square in 1903.
By 1907 he was manufacturing in his own electric-powered "dairy" (a
stand-alone building behind his house) at 69 Caledonia Rd., St. Albans.
Christchurch's ‘Ice Cream Charlie' became a city institution
and continued to sell ice cream in the Square until 1942.
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McDonald's
Model T Ford ice cream delivery van.
- NZICA archives, Frostee Digest.
1922 - 1958
Angus Keith McDonald established the Waikato's first ice cream manufacturing
business in 1922 and then went on to build factories and branches
in Palmerston North, Wellington, Hawera, Masterton and Auckland.
McDonald's ice cream was a household name around most of the North
Island, long before its American name-sake appeared on the scene.
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Newjoy
Brian Simon
with Newjoy refrigerated ice cream
truck, early 1950s.
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Simon
family collection, via Shona McCahon.
1939 - 1961
After having made Phantazzi ice cream in Invercargill for several
years, Max Simon moved to Dunedin in 1939 and established Newjoy
Ice Cream. The business distributed around the Dunedin area, and
by rail as far as Invercargill and Oamaru. The company has one very
particular (and controversial) claim to fame ...
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Rush
Munro's
1917
- now.
Englishman Frederick
Charles Rush-Munro set up a confectionery business
in Auckland, and began selling ice cream in 1917.
Frederick and his wife Catherine moved to the Hawke's Bay in 1926,
and
opened a new Rush Munro in central Hastings.
After the premises were destroyed in the devastating 1931 earthquake,
they moved the business to the current site at 704 Heretaunga Street
West, the shop evolving into the famous Rush Munro's Ice
Cream Gardens.
Photo: Rush Munro's Ice Cream parlour
and garden, ca. 1930 (detail). Photographer Henry
Norford Whitehead.
National Library Reference Number: 1/1-004612-G
You can still buy Rush Munro's ice cream made with Fred's own
recipes, over 100 years old!
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Snowflake
1925 - 2010.
The Norton family, dairy farmers near Greymouth, established The
Riversdale Dairy in 1922, and began manufacturing Snowflake brand
ice cream around 1925.
Demand was so great that in 1928 a new, larger factory was built:
 Photo:
Delivery vehicles outside the new Riversdale
Dairy - Snowflake factory, 1928 (detail).
- Owen Norton
Snowflake ice cream was a part of West Coast life for over 80 years,
one of New Zealand's longest continuously operating ice cream businesses,
and one of the last to source milk from its own dairy herd.
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Sunshine
1941 - 1954.
Sunshine Ice Cream Co. grew out of a fruit & vegetable shop-turned
milk bar in Trafalgar St, Nelson, run by Ralph and Irene Thomas.
Photo: Sunshine Milk Bar and ice cream factory, 1941
(detail).
- The Nelson Provincial Museum,
Kingsford Collection, 154357/6
- Permission of the Nelson
Provincial Museum, Nelson, N.Z., must be obtained before
any re-use of this image.
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Supreme
1929 - 1963.
Originally produced for the Le Grand Lounge, Bar and Tea Rooms, Stafford
Street, Timaru, the Supreme ice cream business was purchased by Tom
and Dorothy Dunn, and the Supreme Ice Cream Company was registered
in 1931.
In 1937, on the back of growth in its milk bottling and
delivery operations, the company was re-named Supreme
Dairies.
In 1950 Supreme expanded into frozen vegetable processing
and changed its name to Supreme Frozen Products.
Photo: Supreme Frozen Products truck, early 1950s
- Dunn family
At the height of its ice cream business,
Supreme operated branches in Timaru, Dunedin
and Invercargill.
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1935 - now.
From a small milk bar in Manners Street, Wellington to New Zealand's
largest manufacturer and now oldest surviving ice cream brand.
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Meadowgold
From the late 1950s we had an old holiday house at Kuaotunu
in the
Coromandel where as children we spent many long hot summer
holidays.
Across the road was the local boarding house and dairy farm
where we got
fresh milk each morning. They also ran a tiny shop which had
a kerosene
powered freezer forming part of the counter – before
power going through to
the district in 1961.
Our Christmas present from grandmother
was a credit at
the shop for an ice block each day while were there. The shop
sold
Meadowgold, with a small range (from memory) of orange, lemon,
ginger beer,
lime and possibly peppermint. Wrapped in an open bottom paper
sleeve, the
ice blocks betrayed their manufacture by having two distinct
sides that
often split apart when halfway through. The ice was quite hard
and splintery
and we would end up with a bleeding tongue from the splinters
when we’d
finished eating the ice block. Worse, they smelled distinctly
of kerosene as
it permeated all the freezer contents.
Still a real treat. Thank you grandma!
- John Ringer.
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