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| Streets Ice Cream | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
| Industry | Food processing |
| Founded | 1920; 105 years ago (1920) inCorrimal, New South Wales, Australia |
| Founder | Edwin 'Ted' Street |
| Headquarters | Minto, Australia |
| Products | Ice cream |
| Brands | Paddle Pop,Golden Gaytime,Cornetto,Magnum,Splice,Viennetta,Bubble O' Bill |
Number of employees | 201[1] (2017) |
| Parent | Unilever |
| Website | streetsicecream |
Streets is an Australian ice cream brand bought by the British multinational companyUnilever in 1960.[2] Some products are made in China and shipped to Australia and New Zealand.[3] It is part of Unilever's ice cream brandHeartbrand. The company is in a long-term contract with dairy companyDairy Farmers.
Streets was founded by Edwin "Ted" Street and his wife Daisy in 1920, inCorrimal, New South Wales. He set up a distribution depot atBexley and then a factory in the Sydney suburb ofTurrella, where products were manufactured until 1996, when production moved to a new facility inMinto. Today most cream-based products are produced at Minto, while water-based products are imported from China.[4]
Streets introduced thePaddle Pop in 1953, and sold over ninety million units by century's end. It is, per capita, the world's best selling ice cream.[5]
In 1960, the company was purchased byUnilever. In the early 1980s, Streets purchased the Adelaide-based company,AMSCOL, which had been founded in 1922.[6]
In 2017, Unilever applied to theFair Work Commission to terminate the currententerprise agreement on wages and conditions and return factory workers to award conditions. TheAustralian Manufacturing Workers Union, which represents the workers, warned that they face a pay cut of up to 46 per cent. The union called on Australians to boycott Streets products in protest.[7] A settlement was negotiated in November 2017.[8]
Streets shares theHeartbrand logo withWall's,HB Ice Cream,Good Humor,GB Glace,Selecta,Kibon andAlgida—used in the United Kingdom, Poland, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Sweden, Philippines, Brazil and Argentina, and Italy respectively. All brands are owned by Unilever.[9]
From 1962 to 1998 (with a change in 1968), the logo consisted of a badge containing the word Streets on a background of vertical red and white stripes.
The following are some of the brands/products sold under the Streets name.[10]
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