Klondike bar

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Klondike Bar
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Original Klondike bar with vanilla ice cream
Product type Ice cream bar
Owner Good Humor-Breyers (Unilever)
Country Mansfield, Ohio, US
Introduced1922;102 years ago (1922)
MarketsUS and Canada
Previous owners Isaly Dairy Company (1922)
Tagline"What Would You Do For A Klondike Bar?"
Website klondikebar.com

A Klondike bar is a Good Humor-Breyers ice cream novelty. The product is made with frozen dairy dessert and a chocolatey coating.

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History

The Klondike bar was created by the Isaly Dairy Company of Mansfield, Ohio in the early 1920s and named after the Klondike River of Yukon, Canada. [1] Rights to the name were eventually sold to Good Humor-Breyers, a division of Unilever. [2]

The first recorded advertisement for the Klondike was on February 5, 1922, in the Youngstown Vindicator .[ citation needed ] The bars are generally wrapped with a silver-colored wrapper depicting a polar bear mascot for the brand. Unlike a traditional frozen ice pop, or traditional ice cream bar, the Klondike bar does not have a stick due to its size, a point often touted in advertising.

In 1976, Henry Clarke, owner of the Clabir company, purchased the rights to the Klondike bar, which had been manufactured and sold by the Isaly's restaurant chain since the 1930s. [3] Clarke introduced Klondike bars to consumers throughout the United States during the 1980s. [4] [3] Under Clarke, sales of the Klondike bar increased from $800,000 annually at the time of the 1976 acquisition by Clabir to more than $60 million. [4]

In 1986, the US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals prohibited Kraft Foods from using a wrapper resembling the distinctive Klondike bar wrapper (its "trade dress") for Kraft's "Polar B'ar" brand ice cream bars. [5] The following year, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the lower court ruling. [6] In 1988, Kraft settled a trademark dispute with Ambrit Inc., as the former Isaly Company, Inc. was then known, for $8.5 million. [7]

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References

  1. Butko, Brian. Klondikes, Chipped Ham, & Skyscraper Cones: The Story of Isaly's. Stackpole Books (2001). ISBN   0-8117-2844-7
  2. "COMPANY NEWS; LIPTON SET TO ADD KLONDIKE AND POPSICLE UNITS". The New York Times. 30 January 1993. Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  3. 1 2 Faith, Nicholas (1992-08-30). "How ice-cream sales came in from the cold: First it was 'real' beer - now 'real' ices are upsetting the old licking order in the market. Nicholas Faith on an industry in the melting-pot". The Independent . Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  4. 1 2 Hall, Christine (2013-04-08). "Henry Clarke, 79, Made Klondike Bar Famous, Former Greenwich Resident". Greenwich Daily Voice . Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  5. 805 F. 2d 974 - Ambrit Inc v. Kraft Inc, vol. F2d, United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit, 10 December 1986, p. 974, retrieved August 8, 2014 via openjurist.org
  6. Rubin, James (May 4, 1987). "Court rules against Polar B'ar ice cream in battle with Klondike". AP News Archive. Associated Press . Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  7. "AP: COMPANY NEWS: Kraft Settlement". New York Times. Associated Press. February 24, 1988. Retrieved August 8, 2014.