Peters Ice Cream

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Peters Ice Cream is an Australian ice cream brand developed by American expatriate Fred Peters in 1907, using his mother's recipe. The company was established in Redfern, Sydney as the Peters' American Delicacy Company.^[1] The hub of the company, Petersville Australia Limited, in the Melbourne suburb of Mulgrave later became the factory, which remains the production centre for most of its ice-cream products.

The company was taken over by Adelaide Steamship Company (AdSteam) in the late 1980s, and then Pacific Dunlop (now known as Ansell) upon AdSteam's collapse. Pacific Dunlop sold its food assets in the mid 1990s, and the ice cream division was acquired by Nestlé, which still produces many iconic brands (such as Choc-Wedge, Drumstick, and Eskimo Pie) under the Peters Ice Cream logo. In Western Australia, where the company Peters and Brownes holds the trademark and continues to produce a similar line of products, Nestlé uses different packaging for a reduced line of ice creams.