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Baskin-Robbins Corporate Office

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Baskin-Robbins Corporate Office Address

Baskin-Robbins, LLC

130 Royall Street
Canton, Massachusetts 02021

Contact Baskin-Robbins

Phone Number: (781) 737-3000
Fax Number: (781) 737-4000
Website: https://www.baskinrobbins.com/content/baskinrobbins/en.html
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Baskin-Robbins Executives

CEO: Anthony J. Gioia
CFO: Paul Carbone
COO: Jack Clare

Baskin-Robbins History

Baskin-Robbins was founded in 1945 by two brother-in-laws, Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins. These two partners decided to merge their two ice cream parlors into one chain. The original Baskin-Robbins was located in Glendale, California, and was called 31 Flavors, something that was unique at the time. In 1970, Baskin-Robbins was the first company to sell ice-cream cakes.

Today, Baskin-Robbins is the world’s largest ice cream specialty store. While 31 flavors seemed like an astounding amount at the time, the company says that as of 2015, they have 1,000 flavor variations. Baskin-Robbins is a subsidairy of Dunkin’ Brands.

The company has more than 7,300 locations in 50 countries. The company is almost 100% franchised and in 2014, the company began selling its ice cream in supermarkets in the U.S.

Blue Bell Creameries Corporate Office

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Blue Bell Creameries Corporate Office Address

Blue Bell Creameries

1101 S. Blue Bell Road
Brenham, Texas 77833

Contact Blue Bell Creameries

Phone Number: (979) 836-7977
Fax Number: (979) 830-2198
Website: http://www.bluebell.com/
Email: Email Blue Bell Creameries

Blue Bell Creameries Facts

Founder: A group of local businessmen
Date Founded: 1907
Founding Location: Brenham, Texas
Number of Employees: 5000

Blue Bell Creameries Executives

CEO: Jim Kruse
CFO: Bill Rankin
COO: Ricky Dickson

Blue Bell Creameries History

Blue Bell Creameries was founded in 1907 as The Brenham Creamery Company. The creamery purchased extra cream from dairy farmers and sell butter. In 1911 the company began to produce ice cream, making only 2 gallons a day and delivering it via a horse-drawn cart.

The company was renamed Blue Bell in 1930 after the Texas Bluebell, a wildflower native to Texas.

By the 1960’s the company concentrated solely on the production of ice cream.

In 1980 Blue Bell was producing over 10 million gallons of ice cream per day and had $30 million in sales.

An Instagram video in June 2019, went viral when a young woman at a Walmart in Texas, was seen removing the lid on a gallon of Blue Bell ice cream, licking the top, replacing the lid and then placing the ice cream back in the freezer. The ice-cream licker was later identified as a 17-year-old minor.

This incident prompted several copy cat ice cream lickers, including a man in Louisiana. This prompted some stores to post security guards in front of ice cream freezers.

Today Blue Bell is the third-best-selling ice cream brand in the United States despite only being sold in 23 states.

The corporate office for Blue Bell ice cream is located in Brenham, Texas.

Friendly’s Corporate Office

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Friendly's Corporate Office Address

Friendly's Ice Cream, LLC

1855 Boston Road
Wilbraham, Massachusetts 01095

Contact Friendly's

Phone Number: (484) 766-1082
Fax Number: (413) 543-5844
Website: http://www.friendlys.com/
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Friendly's Facts

Founder: Prestley and Curtis Blake
Date Founded: 1935
Founding Location: Springfield, Massachusetts
Number of Employees: 12800

Friendly's Executives

CEO: John M. Maguire
CFO: Robert Sawyer
COO: Steven Weigel

Friendly's History

Friendly’s was founded during the height of the Great Depression in 1935 by brothers Prestley and Curtis Blake in Springfield, Massachusetts. The ice cream shop began by selling double-dip cones for 5 cents.

In 1940 a second Friendly’s opened in West Springfield which included an expanded food menu. During WWII, the Blake’s closed the restaurant and reopened them in 1950.

By 1951, the company had 10 locations in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

By 1974, the company had more than 500 locations.

In 1979 Friendly’s was sold to Hershey Foods Corporation when the Blake brothers retired.

This purchase started a period of 30 years where the chain was bought and sold several times while trading publicly on the NASDAQ.

Friendly’s was aggressively franchised in the early 2000’s and now about 50% of the chain’s restaurants are franchised.

Harsh economic times caused Friendly’s to file for bankruptcy and close 63 of their locations in 2011. The company was sold to Sun Capital Partners, Inc. for $75 million. Restaurants are owned by Sun Capital and ice cream products sold in stores are now owned by Dean Foods, Inc.

Today Friendly’s has 380 restaurants across the East Coast of the United States. Friendly’s also distributes ice cream and frozen deserts through 7,500 retail locations including supermarkets.