What is the World's Largest Ice Cream Manufacturer?
The world's largest ice cream manufacturer is Unilever, the same company that makes Dove soap, Vaseline, Lipton tea and Slim-fast. The company produces popular ice cream brands including Walls, Magnum, Breyer® and Ben & Jerry's. The other main player in the ice cream market is Nestlé, which owns Edy's, Movenpick and Nestlé Extreme and distributes Häagen-Dazs® in the United States.
More facts about ice cream:
Ice cream is big business — more than $60 billion US Dollars (USD) a year are spent on ice cream. Nestlé and Unilever control more than one-third of that market.
Ice cream can legally be composed of up to 50 percent air.
About two billion gallons (about 16 billion pints) of ice cream are produced each year. The top five ice-cream consuming countries are the United States — where the average person eats more than 20 gallons (160 pints) a year — New Zealand, Denmark, Australia and Belgium.
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