Ben & Jerry’s scoop shops in Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast are offering free ice cream today, to celebrate Ben & Jerry’s Global Free Cone Day – Tuesday April 12. The company’s four scoop shops in Australia – located in Manly and Broadway in Sydney, Chadstone in Melbourne and at Movie World on the Gold Coast – are offering up “as many scoops as you can shake a digeridoo at” – one at a time, of course. Parent company Unilever said... ...Read more »

Nearly three months after a metre-and-a-half of water swept through its doors, Rosalie Cold Rock Ice Creamery is rising from Brisbane’s devastating floods. The store in the city’s inner-west will reopen this Saturday in time for Rosalie Rising – a community street party to celebrate the recovery of businesses within the Rosalie Village precinct. January’s devastating floods destroyed everything within the Nash Street ice creamery, forcing owners Donna and John Weatherhead to start their 13-year-old... ...Read more »

Unilever has said it will begin selling its Magnum ice cream range in the US next month. The company said on Friday that the brand, which was launched in the UK in 1987, was the first hand-held ice cream “targeted as a premium adult offering” and  is now one of the “world’s leading ice cream brands, selling one billion units annually worldwide”. Unilever is launching the range in the US with an original film series directed by Karl Largerfeld and starring actress Rachel... ...Read more »

Unilever has announced the release of a new icecream product under its Streets Magnum brand: the Streets Magnum Temptation Fruit. The icecream features a vanilla centre with dark chocolate chunks, cranberry pieces and berry sauce. The single serve icecreams will be packaged in the Temptation signature ‘jewellery box’ rather than a more standard icecream wrapper, designed to add a sense of indulgence and prestige to the icecream. Encased in Magnum’s renowned milk chocolate shell, Magnum... ...Read more »

Combining the powers of Acai Berry, Red Grape, Blueberry and Mango, Trampoline Gelato’s new Superfruit Sorbet is 99% fat free and full of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and good-for-you Omegas. Plus, of course, no artificial colours or flavours. Acai (Ah-sigh-ee) berries, hailed as one of the top Superfoods and grown in the Brazilian Amazon, have one of the highest ORAC measures (antioxidant levels) around – in fact, they’ve 4-6 times that of blueberries.  Low in GI for sustained... ...Read more »

Baskin-Robbins, the world’s largest ice cream brand, today announced the appointment of an experienced restaurant industry executive to lead its efforts in Australia. The company said that its new appointee, Ian Martin, General Manager, Australia/New Zealand, would bring a wealth of experience within the restaurant industry and a successful track record representing some of the world’s most prominent retail brands. The company said the move was in keeping with its plan to grow its brand in Australia... ...Read more »

Nestlé has unveiled its latest Peters Ice Cream offering, Peters Overload. The new icecream is a “chunky, smashed up, parlour-style ice cream”, boasting more than double the quantity of inclusions, both sauce and pieces, of the average tub of icecream in Australia’s supermarket freezers. The icecream will come in three flavours, two using established Nestlé brands – a Violet Crumble offering, with honeycomb ice cream, chunks of Violet Crumble and chocolate sauce, a Rolo... ...Read more »

Confectionery giant Mars Inc has launched two chocolate bars and three ice-cream lines in the US.Mars unveiled Snickers Peanut Butter Squared and Twix Coconut Cookie Bars at the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS) show in Atlanta. The company also launched ice-cream flavours under the Snickers, Twix and Milky Way brands. “At Mars Chocolate North America, we strive to help our retailers drive profit by providing them with innovative new products, exciting consumer promotions and... ...Read more »

Nadav Kander, arguably one of the globe’s best stills photographers, has taken on an ice-cream made in Melbourne as his newest subject. Connoisseur ice-cream has snared the multi-award winning photographer, whose impressive list of subjects ranges from the world’s most powerful, Barack Obama, to the world’s most gorgeous, Brad Pitt. In a commission designed to capture the artistry involved in making the gourmet ice-cream, Kander collaborated with acclaimed British set designer Hana Al Sayed,... ...Read more »

Those well known pink and white Mr Whippy ice-cream vans will soon be touring Australian neighbourhoods with their delicious ice-creams and range of beverages. Mr Whippy, now owned by Franchised Food Company (FFCo), is looking for a suitable partner to operate the vans under licence and capitalise on their brand recognition and appeal. Howard Bellin, franchising specialist and consultant to FFCo, said that this decision was a terrific opportunity for someone to obtain the licence from FFCo for their... ...Read more »