Products Ice Cream Revenue 40 million USD (2008) Number of employees 150 | Headquarters Madison Founded 1928 Type of business Private | |
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Website www.schoepsicecream.com Profiles | ||
Schoep's Ice Cream is an ice cream manufacturing company based in Madison, Wisconsin.
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History
Schoep's Ice Cream was founded by E.J. Schoephoester in 1928. Schoephoester made and sold the ice cream in his grocery store. By 1937, Schoep's Ice Cream had grown in local popularity and E. B. Schoephoester sold his company to Peter B. Thomsen, a butter maker. The company has been kept in the Thomsen family, and as of 2008, it was owned in part by nineteen members of the Thomsen family.
Operation
All of Schoep's Ice Cream is currently produced from a single factory located on Division Street in Madison, Wisconsin. As of 2008, Schoeps was producing 6,000 gallons of ice cream an hour and 2.5 million gallons a year. With this high production rate, Schoeps has been recognized as the top producer of ice cream in the state of Wisconsin. Due to this growth, in 2005, Schoep's opened a $7 million, 46,000-square-foot (4,300 m2) distribution center on Manufacturers Drive, near the Dane County Regional Airport. This new facility features space for 3,600 pallets and 14 loading-dock doors. Before this facility was built, Schoeps had shipped all of their ice cream from two loading docks at their factory.
Walgreens
Schoep's ice cream is not generally distributed outside of the Midwest United States under the Schoep's brand, but instead as Walgreens brand Ice Cream. Since 1993, Schoep's has been the sole producer of ice cream sold under the Walgreens label. This contract accounts for more than 25 percent of Schoep's business.