House of Flavors
American ice cream manufacturer company
House of Flavors is a manufacturer and retailer of ice cream based in Ludington, Michigan. It started as a dairy business as part of a farm operation before 1930. In 1935 the business had become known as Miller's Dairy and started expanding the operation. By the 1940s they processed milk, buttermilk, cottage cheese, and ice cream. In the late 1940s a businessman with a decade of dairy experience moved to Ludington from a city 60 miles south to become a partner of the existing business. He became the general manager and the name was changed to Park Dairy. The milk and butter segments of the business were sold off and the enterprise thereafter concentrated on just making ice cream.
A 1950s-themed ice cream parlor and restaurant is located in front on the main avenue of Ludington. Other stores were in Manistee, and are in Pentwater and Zeeland, Michigan The ice cream manufacturing plant employing 150 people and making thousands of different ice cream flavors is behind taking up several city blocks. Their signature flavor is "Blue Moon" ice cream and they ship their ice cream products worldwide.
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