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'''Breyers''' is a brand of ] started in 1866 by William A. Breyer in ], ].
'''Breyers''' is a frozen dessert and ] brand owned and managed since 1993 by the British ], ].<ref name="riddle">{{Cite web |last=Riddle |first=Holly |date=2 February 2023 |title=The Untold Truth Of Breyers |url=https://www.mashed.com/339136/the-untold-truth-of-breyers/ |access-date=2024-11-13 |publisher=Mashed |language=en-US}}</ref> The company is based in ].

Among the ten best-selling ice cream brands worldwide, Breyers is part of Unilever's ice cream business group, which includes ], ], and ].<ref name="cnn">{{cite news |last=Ziady |first=Hanna|title= Ben & Jerry’s and Magnum will form the core of an $8 billion ice cream company|url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/19/food/unilever-ice-cream-spinoff-ben-jerrys/index.html |access-date=18 November 2024 |work=CNN |date=19 March 2024}}</ref> Breyers is the oldest American ice cream company.<ref name="delish">{{cite web |last=Braun Davison|first=Candace |title=11 Things You Should Know Before Buying Breyers Ice Cream |url=https://www.delish.com/food-news/g3540/things-you-should-know-before-buying-breyers-ice-cream/ |publisher=Delish |access-date=13 November 2024 |date=9 August 2016}}</ref> In 2022 with sales of $498 million, it was the fourth-leading ice cream brand in the United States.<ref name="berk">{{cite web |last=Berk |first=Brian |title=2022 State of the Industry: Ice cream category sees bright future ahead |url=https://www.dairyfoods.com/articles/95998-2022-state-of-the-industry-ice-cream-category-sees-bright-future-ahead |publisher=Dairy Foods |access-date=19 November 2024 |date=22 November 2022}}</ref>

Founded in 1866 by William Breyer in ], ], Breyers produced one million ]s of ice cream annually in the 1920s.<ref name=riddle/> The company was sold to the ] in 1926, then to ], and later to Unilever, which merged it with ] to form the ] division of the Unilever ice cream group.<ref name=riddle/> Due to declining sales in 2023, Unilever announced plans to sell its ice cream businesses, including Breyers, by the end of 2025.<ref name=cnn/>

Breyers manufactures ice cream and frozen dairy dessert products.<ref name=riddle/><ref name="demas">{{Cite web |last=Demas |first=Alex |date=21 May 2024 |title=Claims That Breyers Doesn't Sell 'Real' Ice Cream Are False |url=https://thedispatch.com/article/claims-that-breyers-doesnt-sell-real-ice-cream-are-false/ |access-date=2024-11-10 |publisher=The Dispatch |language=en-US}}</ref> The company groups its dozens of products in three flavor categories according to classic ingredients, specialty diets, and candy.<ref name="breyers">{{cite web |title=Breyers: All Flavors |url=https://www.breyers.com/us/en/products.html |publisher=Breyers |access-date=18 November 2024 |date=2024}}</ref>

In 2013, Breyers introduced frozen desserts made with ]s that were intended to create smooth, low-calorie products.<ref name=riddle/><ref name=demas/> However, the new desserts evoked complaints by consumers who were accustomed to the traditional "all-natural" Breyers ice cream.<ref name=riddle/><ref name=demas/><ref name="barry">{{cite news |last=Barry |first=Dan |title=Ice Cream’s Identity Crisis |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/dining/remembering-when-breyers-ice-cream-was-you-know-ice-cream.html |access-date=18 November 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=15 April 2013}}</ref>


==History== ==History==

Revision as of 06:03, 19 November 2024

Ice cream brand Not to be confused with Bryers or Dreyer's. This article is about the ice cream brand. For the brand of model horses, see Breyer Animal Creations. For the singular for the plural, see Breyer (disambiguation).
Brand logo
Product typeFrozen dessert
OwnerUnilever
CountryUnited States
Introduced1866; 158 years ago (1866)
Previous ownersKraft Foods Inc.
Websitebreyers.com

Breyers is a brand of ice cream started in 1866 by William A. Breyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

History

Breyer ice cream truck, c. 1915

In 1866, William A. Breyer began to produce and sell iced cream in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, first from his home, and later via horse and wagon on the streets. Breyer's son Henry incorporated the business in 1908. The formerly independent Breyer Ice Cream Company was sold to the National Dairy Products Corporation/Sealtest in 1926. National Dairy then changed its name to Kraftco in 1968, and Kraft by 1975. Kraft sold its ice cream brands to Unilever in 1993, while retaining the rights to the name for yogurt products.

Ice cream

Prior to 2006, Breyers was known for producing ice cream with a small number of all-natural ingredients. In recent years, Unilever has reformulated many of its flavors with nontraditional, additive ingredients, significantly changing the taste and texture of their desserts as a result. Following similar practices by several of their competitors, Breyers' list of ingredients has expanded to include thickeners, low-cost sweeteners, food coloring and low-cost additives — including natural additives such as tara gum and carob bean gum; artificial additives such as maltodextrin and propylene glycol; and common artificially separated and extracted ingredients such as corn syrup, whey, and others.

One result of these cost-cutting practices has been that many (but not all) of Breyers' products no longer contain enough milk and cream to meet labeling requirements for ice cream, and are now labeled "Frozen Dairy Dessert" in the United States and "Frozen Dessert" in Canada.

For several decades over 30% of Breyers products, including most of its products sold in the Northeastern U.S., were produced in a large plant outside Boston, in Framingham, Massachusetts. As part of cost-cutting by Unilever, the plant was closed in March 2011.

Confusion with Dreyer's

In the Western U.S. and Texas, Breyers ice cream is sometimes confused with Dreyer's ice cream. Henry Breyer founded Breyers in 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, while William Dreyer and Joseph Edy co-founded Edy's Grand Ice Cream in 1928 in Oakland, California. The root of the confusion dates to 1953, when "Edy's Grand Ice Cream" was changed to "Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream". Seeking to eliminate the confusion this created, Dreyer's changed its brand name in the home market of Breyers from "Dreyer's Grand" back to "Edy's Grand" in 1981. Around that same time Breyers had begun an expansion toward the West Coast—the home market of Dreyer's—and by the mid-1980s was distributing ice cream throughout the western U.S. and Texas. Unlike Dreyer's, Breyers kept its brand name nationally, and as a result, both Breyers and Dreyer's can be found on store shelves in the western U.S. and Texas.

Yogurt

Breyers Yogurt was a brand of yogurt, owned by Kraft Foods then by CoolBrands International, a former Canadian frozen foods manufacturer. After CoolBrands ran into financial trouble, it was sold in 2007 to Healthy Food Holdings, an affiliate of Catterton Partners, a private equity firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

The yogurt was manufactured under license from Unilever at an upstate New York facility until the licensing agreement was terminated and the Breyers Yogurt line was discontinued in April 2011. Catterton continued to produce YoCrunch yogurt but without the Breyers co-branding until it sold the company in August 2013 to Group Danone.

See also

References

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  16. "Healthy Food Holdings to Acquire Breyers(R) Yogurt Business -- re> BOULDER, Colo., Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ --". Archived from the original on 2011-08-07. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
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