The Strange Business of Ice Cream

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Ice cream is a multi-billion greenback market dominated by legacy manufacturers like Ben & Jerry’s, Blue Bell, and Breyers. Ice cream on paper ought to be a worthwhile enterprise. It’s a frozen perishable product with many years of confirmed unit economics, enterprise plans, and will be scaled into huge portions. The worldwide enchantment has made the business a goal for personal fairness who’ve invested tens of millions into Van Leeuwen, Salt & Straw, and Jeni’s underneath the guess they will in the future grow to be the Haagen-Dazs for the following technology.

But ice cream is an odd enterprise. It’s so low margin that the homeowners of Haagen Dazs and Ben & Jerry’s not solely interact in shrinkflation to squeeze out revenue from every pint, however have been actively offloading their ventures. These conglomerates additionally personal different manufacturers from Klondike, Breyer’s, and Talenti to Good Humor, Magnum, Drumstick, and Dreyer’s. Regardless of having the main manufacturers and economies of scale, Nestle, Unilever, and Kroger have every concluded that the ice cream enterprise is simply not price it.

Retail ideas like Baskin Robbins and Chilly Stone Creamery that when dominated within the 2000s have additionally skilled related stagnation. On this episode, we’re diving into the curious enterprise of ice cream from the macro-to-micro ranging from the large manufacturers all the best way to three independents in New York Metropolis, who’ve discovered distinctive success on this oddly tough business.

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