The Icee Company

The Icee Company

The ICEE Company is a division of J&J Snack Foods Corp and is located in Ontario, California, USA. Its flagship product is the ICEE, which is flavored frozen beverage that is carbonated and comes in various fruit and soda flavors. ICEE also produces other frozen beverages, and Italian ice pops under both the ICEE and Slush Puppie brands. The company's mascot is an anthropomorphic cartoon polar bear.

Today, the Icee Company has over 30,000 Icee machines across the United States, which serve 300 million Icees per year. McDonald's and Subway restaurants inside Wal-Mart stores sell ICEEs. Burger King restaurants in the United States and Canada sell ICEEs and ICEE Floats. Target also sells ICEEs inside their stores. The machines are located near Starbucks. In Mexico, Icee is available at some Sears department stores.

History

The ICEE machine was invented in the early 1960's by #REDIRECT Omar Knedlik in Coffeyville, KS. He had been placing bottles of soda in his freezer until they were frozen since he didn't have a soda fountain. The frozen drinks were extremely popular and he soon realized that he needed a machine to make the product. After 5 years, he had invented the Icee Machine. By the mid-60's, 300 Icee machines has been manufactured. [http://www.icee.com/story.asp]

External links

* [http://www.icee.com/ Official website]


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