"These are ten great American brands that are foreign-owned.4. Good Humor
• Founding date: 1923
• Category: Ice cream
• Current parent company: Unilever
• Currently headquartered: England
• In 1923, Harry B. Burt of Youngstown, Ohio, patented his new method of making frozen confections — freezing ice cream bars to wooden handles and coating them in a hard chocolate layer. According to Burt, the value of the new process was in its sanitation and cleanliness. Instead of opening a store to sell his new Good Humor bars, Burt organized a fleet of ice-cream trucks with bells and carefully trained white-clad salesmen. When its founder died in 1926, the company went public and successfully expanded across much of the U.S. Unilever subsidiary Lipton purchased Good Humor in 1961.
2 comments:
Just as a note of correction Good Humor was concieved in 1920 not 1923
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