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Frederick's Dairies was an ice cream manufacturer that held the licence to make a number of brandedice cream products and variations. The company currently owns the licence to make a range ofDel Monte andCadbury's ices, including a number ofFlake branded cones to compete withWall'sCornetto, and a range of hand-held ice creams based on Cadbury'sDairy Milk range.
Fredericks Dairies was acquired byR&R Ice Cream for £49 million in April 2013.[1] It thus acquired control ofCadbury,Del Monte andBritvic ice cream brands.[1]
History
editThe family first developed commercially near to theItalian Riviera in 1896.[2] They then moved to the North West of England and started working on the Mars bar ice cream. The company is based inSkelmersdale,Lancashire.
Fredericks was once the UK's number one independently owned ice cream company which manufactures and sells ice cream for brands such as Kraft foods, Del Monte, Tangerine confectionery, Antonio Federici, Lyle's and Britvic soft drinks.
References
edit- ^abR&R Ice Cream to buy UK rival Fredericks Dairies
- ^Fredrick's Dairies."Independent". Archived fromthe original on 2 June 2011. Retrieved24 March 2011.
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