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• Rain cloud with a silver lining: handheld ice creams took a bath this summer. Thank goodness the market had its tubs

  - 2007-12-15

  The picture of a Unilever ice cream storage facility submerged in water has to be one of the abiding memories of the wettest summer on record. As the River Avon burst its banks, Unilever's nearby Gloucester manufacturing plant also suspended production for two-and-a-half weeks due to the quality of the...

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• Cooling sound

  - 2004-09-01

  Environmentally and socially conscious Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream has unveiled a prototype of a point-of-sale ice-cream freezer that runs on thermoacoustics. The freezer compresses helium gas instead of harmful CFCs, HFCs or other chemicals, and was developed in conjunction with Penn State's Applied Research Laboratory, which holds a patent...

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• Vox shop: Tesco eyes Ben & Jerry's territory … luxury ice cream struggles in Somerfield … impulse looks lively at Nizafreeze

  - 2004-03-20

  NICK HIPWELL ICE CREAM BUYER, TESCO </ADD> The main trends are the development of healthy living ice creams, the growth in indulgent flavours and the expansion of confectionery brands. We are making our Tesco Finest range more indulgent and need to...

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• Ben & Jerry's steps out of the tub

  - 2004-02-21

  Bell & Jerry's is continuing its assault on the 890m [pounds sterling] ice cream market by launching its first non-tubbed products. 'Wich contains a layer of vanilla fudge chip ice cream between two fudge-swirled chocolate chunk cookies. Rsp for the 118ml bar will be 1.49 [pounds sterling] and...

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• PRODUCTION Perfection

  - 2004-02-01

  Dairy Field takes a look at some of the industry's most innovative plants.Efficiency, productivity, safety and quality - all are aspects of a topnotch dairy processing operation. Today's top companies know this, and they devote significant time and resources to improve upon these elements that are crucial to success.While marketing...

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• Miracle Workers

  - 2003-08-01

  Why would financial planners turn to the same company that helped Sean Connery, Sting, and Ben & Jerry? Because, like these celebrities, they lost precious information from a computer's hard drive and desperately need to retrieve it. DriveSavers in Novato, Calif., is in the business of helping the famous and...

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• Food recalls reported.(Brief Article)

  - 2003-07-28

  Lisy Corp., Miami, FL, is recalling all ORALE brand Ground Cumin, Item 141-A 1.5-oz. pack size. The cumin was distributed to wholesalers and retail stores in FL, GA, NC, SC, MI, IL, WI, TX, TN, MD, DE, PA, NJ, NY, WV, VA, AL, MS, AR, MO, LA,...

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• Six degrees of separation: Ben & Jerry's &quot;knows&quot; Dick Cheney, through TouchGraph.

  - 2003-04-01

  Did you know that Dialog is connected to the U.S. Senate? Or that Hoover's is related to Fox News? And that Ben & Jerry's has links, literally, to Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's old energy employer? You can find and view more of these unusual connections...

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• In the mix

  - 2003-01-01

  PLANT PROFILE * Innovative technology takes on complex recipes at Ben & Jerry's St. Albans, Vt., processing plant. St. Albans, Vt., is home to the newest plant in the Ben & Jerry's system, a 92,000-square-foot facility constructed in 1994. A 47,000-square-foot expansion is currently in the works that will increase...

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• State of the industry: Frozen desserts--playing it cool

  - 2001-08-01

  Processors invest heavily in new product development. SCOOPED UP ALONGSIDE a wedge of cake at a family birthday party or piled high atop a cone, dripping down someone's hand on a hot summer's day, ice cream has long been considered a celebratory food. Of course, the cause for celebration is...

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