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Ice cream capital of the world

We all love ice cream, well I hope so. Because that is what I’m writing about. Do you know where the ice cream capital is? It’s located in Le Mars, Iowa, USA.
Wells’ Dairy was founded in 1913 by Fred H. Wells Jr. Today Le Mars is recognized as the “Ice Cream Capital of the World” because more ice cream is made here by a single company in one location than anywhere else in the world. Think of over 120 million gallons (1 gallon is about 3.78 litres). Still family owned and managed, now by third and fourth generation family members, most of the Wells family still live here in Le Mars, along with the nearly 9,500 other residents, for whom life is really sweet.

The history of Wells’ Dairy starts with Fred H. Wells with the purchase of a horse, a delivery wagon, a few milk cans and jars and the goodwill of the milk business from Ray Bowers, a Le Mars dairy farmer- all for 250 dollars. In 1925 Fred H. Wells and his sons manufactured ice creams in Le Mars. So he and his brother started distributing ice cream in Sioux City around 1927. In 1928 they sold their ice cream distribution system along with the rights to use the Wells’ name. Seven years later the Wells’ brothers decided to sell ice cream again. But because they couldn’t use the name “Wells” they ran a “Name that ice cream” contest and a Sioux City man won the $25 prize, after noticing how much his son liked the blue bunnies on a shop window during Easter time. And the name was “Blue Bunny”



Here are some fun facts:
Wells’ Dairy has over 2700 employees nationwide
Over 250,000 gallons of ice cream is produced per day
It takes 1.5 billion sticks a year to make the ice cream novelties. If you placed them all end to end, it would stretch over three times around the earth’s equator Wells’ Dairy has 5 plants that produce Blue Bunny products, two in Le Mars, IA and one in St.George, UT. Two cultured dairy plants , one in Le mars and one in Omaha, NE
There are 75 Blue Bunny ice cream flavors! (50 regular flavors and 25 Feature Flavors, critics Choice and Limited Editions available throughout the year)
Vanilla is the most popular Blue Bunny Ice Cream flavor, followed by Chocolate and Bunny Tracks.
There are 5 kinds of vanilla flavors! Vanilla, French Vanilla, Homemade Vanilla, All Natural Vanilla and New York
Blue Bunny, Wells’ dairy manufactures ice cream for many national restaurant chains
In addition to ice cream, Wells’ Dairy produces yoghurt and other cultured dairy products
Wells’ Dairy was pasteurizing milk by 1920 and homogenizing milk by the early 1930’s
Wells’ Dairy’s products can be found in all 50 states and over 20 foreign countries
Wells’ Dairy receives milk from 13 different states. 39% of the milk comes from Iowa dairy farms
90.000 cows are needed each day to facilitate Wells’ Dairy’s daily ice cream and dairy production needs. That’s over 220.000 gallons in a single day, 365 days per year!
Wells’ Dairy has 850 vehicles in its transportation fleet
During one of the busiest weeks, 707 loads of ice cream left the city of Le Mars.
There is more ice cream made in the city of Le Mars than any other one location on earth (hope there isn’t any on planet Mars :D), making Le Mars, IA the Ice Cream Capital of the World