Peters Ice Cream

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. 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 Monaco Bar) using a Peters Ice Cream logo modified to say Nestle.

In Western Australia, Nestlé Peters as it is now called did not change its name until 2009. It had always remained simply, Peters Ice Cream and was owned by PB foods until they sold it in 2006 to Fonterra. In 2009 Fonterra sold it to Nestlé so they would own the whole company, all over Australia. Peters in Western Australia used to export many ice-creams overseas, mainly to Japan where there it was called Lady Borden and in New Zealand it was called Tip Top Ice Cream. They also used to serve it on many flights out of Perth. From late 2009, Nestlé exported their ice-creams to WA from Melbourne; the Balcatta factory in WA no longer produces Peters but still produces Cadbury Ice Cream. Prior to 2009, Nestlé did sell ice-cream in WA called Nestlé Ice Cream until the merge.

See also

• Zig and Zag (Australian performers)

External links

• Nestlé Australia - Peters
• Fred Peters biography