Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream, Inc. announced today that it will stop production at its Houston, Texas, manufacturing facility by the beginning of April 2009, and shift production to four of its other plants, including Fort Wayne, Indiana.
In addition to the Houston facility, Dreyer's has two plants -- one in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and another in Laurel, Maryland -- that handle East Coast production, and three ice cream manufacturing plants in the West -- in Bakersfield, California; Tulare, California; and Salt Lake City, Utah -- for a current total of six ice cream plants across the country.
Dreyer's, which is headquartered in Oakland, California, where it was founded in 1928, has more than 7,000 employees across the country. The company's premium products are marketed under the Dreyer's brand name throughout the Western states and Texas, and under the Edy's(R) brand name throughout the remainder of the United States.
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