Halo Top Creamery
ice cream company
Halo Top Creamery is a frozen dairy dessert company and brand sold in the United States, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Austria, United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. The brand is marketed as a lower-calorie alternative, partially substituting sugar with stevia, a plant-based sweetener, and erythritol, a sugar alcohol.
History
The ice cream brand was founded around 2011 by former attorney Justin Woolverton of Latham & Watkins LLP. Woolverton had begun making ice cream in his own kitchen with the goal of reducing his consumption of carbohydrates and refined sugars. In the early stages, Woolverton experimented with the recipe for over a year, tweaking and improving the ingredients. In order to create a long-lasting formula that could sustain shipment through the supply chain, Woolverton went to the Dairy Innovation Institute at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where he was able to refine and polish the formula with a contract manufacturer. The company describes its product as the first ever "lifestyle" ice cream that can be eaten daily without overwhelming a typical caloric intake diet, but nutritionists have expressed that "just because it's a slightly better choice does not mean that it is a good choice."
Halo Top launched in Los Angeles on June 15, 2012. Annual sales grew around 2,500% during 2016 and continued to increase in 2017. In July 2017, Halo Top became the best-selling ice cream pint at grocery stores in the United States, surpassing the Ben & Jerry's and Häagen-Dazs brands in popularity. By September 2017, it had grown to 50 employees and was sold throughout the United States, Australia, Mexico, Canada, Ireland, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
In 2017, Halo Top won several international prizes, including an Institute of Taste Test Award, a Lausanne Index Clean Food Prize, and it was named "Food Disruptor of the Year" by Food Dive and one of The 25 Best Inventions of 2017 by Time magazine.
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