Klondike Bar
Klondike logo
Klondike's current logo
Original Klondike bar with vanilla ice cream
Product typeIce cream bar
OwnerGood Humor-Breyers (Unilever)
CountryMansfield, Ohio, US
Introduced1922 (1922)
MarketsUS and Canada
Previous ownersIsaly Dairy Company (1922)
Tagline"What Would You Do For A Klondike Bar?"
Websiteklondikebar.com

A Klondike bar is a Good Humor-Breyers ice cream novelty consisting of a square of ice cream coated with a thin layer of chocolate.

History

The Klondike bar was created by the Isaly Dairy Company of Mansfield, Ohio in the early 1920s and named after the Klondike River of Yukon, Canada.[1] Rights to the name were eventually sold to Good Humor-Breyers, a division of Unilever.

The first recorded advertisement for the Klondike was on February 5, 1922, in the Youngstown Vindicator. The bars are generally wrapped with a silver-colored wrapper depicting a polar bear mascot for the brand. Unlike a traditional frozen ice pop, or traditional ice cream bar, the Klondike bar does not have a stick due to its size, a point often touted in advertising.

In 1976, Henry Clarke, owner of the Clabir company, purchased the rights to the Klondike bar, which had been manufactured and sold by the Isaly's restaurant chain since the 1930s.[2] Clarke introduced Klondike bars to consumers throughout the United States during the 1980s.[3][2] Under Clarke, sales of the Klondike bar increased from $800,000 annually at the time of the 1976 acquisition by Clabir to more than $60 million.[3]

In 1986, the US 11th Circuit Court of Appeals prohibited Kraft Foods from using a wrapper resembling the distinctive Klondike bar wrapper (its "trade dress") for Kraft's "Polar B'ar" brand ice cream bars.[4] The following year, the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the lower court ruling.[5] In 1988, Kraft settled a trademark dispute with Ambrit Inc., as the former Isaly Company, Inc. was then known, for $8.5 million.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Butko, Brian. Klondikes, Chipped Ham, & Skyscraper Cones: The Story of Isaly's. Stackpole Books (2001). ISBN 0-8117-2844-7
  2. 1 2 Faith, Nicholas (1992-08-30). "How ice-cream sales came in from the cold: First it was 'real' beer - now 'real' ices are upsetting the old licking order in the market. Nicholas Faith on an industry in the melting-pot". The Independent. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  3. 1 2 Hall, Christine (2013-04-08). "Henry Clarke, 79, Made Klondike Bar Famous, Former Greenwich Resident". Greenwich Daily Voice. Retrieved 2013-04-30.
  4. ↑ 805 F. 2d 974 - Ambrit Inc v. Kraft Inc, vol. F2d, United States Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit, 10 December 1986, p. 974, retrieved August 8, 2014 – via openjurist.org
  5. ↑ Rubin, James (May 4, 1987). "Court rules against Polar B'ar ice cream in battle with Klondike". AP News Archive. Associated Press. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  6. ↑ "AP: COMPANY NEWS: Kraft Settlement". New York Times. Associated Press. February 24, 1988. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
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