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Ice cream company Greater has concluded for more than 150 years as “no”.
Instead of installing modern ice cream -making equipment like your rivals, Graater Uses the same technique when the company was established in 1870-as it lost by high margin and increased production, but claims that it is a better tasting, more authentic product.
Greater has quit winning in highly populated cities such as New York or Los Angeles. Instead, the company focuses on dominating midwestern markets such as Louisville and Indianapolis, as well as its headquarters in Cincinnati where it is the most popular ice cream brand Ben & Jerry in some shops.
However, its greatest “no” comes from the owners of the fourth generation, who say that Greater is a family -owned business, despite the frequent calls from buyers interested in buying operations.
“It is not about selling business. It’s not about cache out, ”CEO Richard said Greater, which receives calls from private almost every day Equity firms are interested in buying their company. ,It is about passing on to it, which further enhances the legacy paid to us. ,
Richard Greater, CEO of Greater
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Greater began in 1870 when Louis Charles Greater began selling ice cream from two vehicles in Cincinnati after handing it over to the French vessel. Greater and his wife, Regina, later opened their first permanent position in 1900. After Louis died in 1919, Regina left with two young sons, at that time a rareness for a woman took over to run a business – and began to expand.
In 1926, Regina faced one of her biggest challenges, when a new large -scale production method allowed to be manufactured at a very cheap price for fairly larger versions of ice cream. A few years later, modernization of frozen treats in collaboration with Great Depression, forced several families owned ice cream shops to go out of business.
However, Greater The quality and authenticity of ice cream would be “compromised” using the new production method that was also managed to flourish as Regina. He eventually bought a factory in 1934 during the height of Great Depression to increase the company’s production capacity and its ability to distribute its frozen offerings.
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The company continued to use small 2-dolons French pots, which incorporates low air in high-batterfat mixes to create a creamier, less dense ice cream. Practice is in place Graater Today.
Richard said, “She stuck with the old world process because more than high development matters.” “Why is we really It is still here today because every generation of my family had a chance to adopt new technology, including me … but we stuck with this process. ,
Old school methods means that Greater produces low ice cream-each 2–1/2 gallon batch takes about 15 minutes-compared to a continuous process used by most companies today that every 60 Crank hundreds of gallons in seconds.
Greater also packaged its ice cream by hand, resulting in labor costs which are five times higher than contestants. Unlike the mass-producing process, which makes a mixture that is not completely frozen, the ice cream of Greater is ready to consume immediately. When the company first began in the 1800s, the freezer was not present -the labor had to be ready to package the ice cream quickly.
The company’s production process is a major reason that Richard regularly calls buyers who inquire about buying businesses. He said that any buyer would be seen to cut labor expenses, promote margins, increase prices and increase manufacturing practices to increase production, making Greater so successful.
“CAs long as a PE firm goes to a small brand to take the public, they are not going to him, because they cannot earn money, ”Richard said. “If I sold the business, whoever bought it, they will ruin it.”
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The ice cream is about 7 billion dollars trading in the US, even with consumption on the decline, health-conscious consumers cut back on fatty and sugars foods. In 2022, average American regularly enjoyed 12.7 pounds of ice cream, As StatisticsBelow 16.1 pounds at the turn of the millennium.
Graater Each year makes 42 different flavors, including brown butter borebon pecan, vanilla and its signature black raspberry chocolate chip. Business, which is profitable, is growing in “single digits”, Richard said.
About three-fourths of its $ 100 million in annual sales are scattered in five midwestern states from 56 brick-and-mortar ice cream parlor. Another 25%, comes from sales at shops such as Kroger, Vegman, Harris Teatter and The Fresh Market. The remaining 5% of consumers are collected by about 60,000 order shipping in a year. Graater Small also operates Heritage Bakery and Candy Business.
The company hopes that the opening and direct-consumer shipment of the new shop will contribute to the lion’s share in its future development.
The 60 -year -old CEO, who owns the business with his two cousins, is preparing to handle the family members of the next generation. Richard’s son works as an assistant baker, while his two cousins have children in retail and maintenance respectively.
“Every generation of our family has taken a good business and made it better,” Richard said. “it [business] Earn money as long as you work to your donkey. This was not something on which you could sit back and feed it. It will not last for a very long time. ,
