Dreyers Ice Cream (NASDAQ:DRYR)
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Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc. (Dreyer's)
(NNM:DRYR), announced today that with the completion in 2005 of a $100
million expansion of its Bakersfield, California, ice cream
manufacturing facility, it will close its City of Commerce,
California, manufacturing plant at the end of April, 2006, and shift
production to Bakersfield.
The Commerce closure will impact 99 employees, but Dreyer's hopes
to offer alternative positions or work locations, including jobs in
Bakersfield, to most of those employees.
Dreyer's currently has two plants -- one in Fort Wayne, Indiana,
and another plant under expansion in Laurel, Maryland -- that handle
East Coast production. The Laurel plant, when completed in 2006, will
be one of the largest ice cream plants in the world, rivaling Dreyer's
recently expanded Bakersfield plant. In addition to the Commerce and
Bakersfield facilities in California, Dreyer's currently has three
other ice cream manufacturing plants in the West -- in Tulare,
California; Houston, Texas; and Salt Lake City, Utah -- for a total of
seven ice cream plants across the country.
Dreyer's Commerce plant produces ice cream in family-size cartons
for home sale as well as three-gallon-size containers for restaurants
and parlors. Production has been transitioning to Bakersfield over the
last year.
With the recent expansion in Bakersfield, Dreyer's has hired
another 381 employees there in 2005, bringing its Bakersfield employee
total to nearly 800. Dreyer's, which is headquartered in Oakland,
California, where it was founded in 1928, has more than 6,900
employees across the country with more than 2,600 in the Golden State.
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream Holdings, Inc., and its subsidiaries
manufacture and distribute a full spectrum of ice cream and frozen
dessert products. Brands of frozen dessert products currently
manufactured or distributed by Dreyer's in the United States include
Grand, Slow Churned(R) Light, Haagen-Dazs(R), Nestle(R) Drumstick(R),
Nestle Crunch(R), Butterfinger(R), Toll House(R), Carnation(R),
Dibs(TM), Push-Up(R), Dole(R), Fruit Bars, Starbucks(R) and The Skinny
Cow(R). The company's premium products are marketed under the Dreyer's
brand name throughout the western states and Texas, and under the
Edy's brand name throughout the remainder of the United States.
Internationally, the Dreyer's brand extends to select markets in the
Far East and the Edy's brand extends to the Caribbean and South
America. For more information on the company, please visit
www.dreyersinc.com.
Edy's, the Dreyer's and Edy's logo design, Slow Churned, Dibs and
The Skinny Cow are all trademarks or trade names of Dreyer's Grand Ice
Cream, Inc. The Starbucks trademark is owned by Starbucks U.S. Brands,
LLC and is licensed to Dreyer's. All other trademarks and trade names
are licensed to Dreyer's by Nestle.