Vintage Original SEALTEST Ice Cream advertising Menu chalk board Dairy Sign

Description

So here is a Sealtest menu chalk board sign. Sign is in aged used dinged as is condition see pics measuring about 17 by 23 with sharp color for age.
Sealtest
Product type
Dairy products
Owner
Unilever
Country
United States
Introduced
1940
; 81 years ago
Markets
United States (Asheville, NC)
Canada
Previous owners
Kraft
Website
Sealtest.ca
Sealtest Dairy
is a
Good Humor-Breyers
brand for dairy products. Formerly a division of
National Dairy Products Corporation
(precursor to
Kraft Foods
) of
Delaware
, it produced
milk
,
cream
,
ice cream
, and
lemonade
. The Sealtest brand was also later used by various companies in Canada under license (now held by
Agropur
).
Contents
1
History
2
Canadian influence
3
See also
4
References
5
External links
History
[
edit
]
Sealtest building in Cleveland in the 1960s.
Sealtest had milk and ice cream plants across the midwestern and northeastern part of the United States, with large operations in
Chicago
,
Milwaukee
,
Cleveland
,
La Crosse, Wisconsin
,
Huntington, Indiana
,
Rockford, Illinois
,
Philadelphia
,
Baltimore
and
New York City
. Its
Mid-South
operations were based in
Nashville
.
The Milwaukee operation was purchased from a family-owned dairy operation, Luick Dairy, in the late 1940s or after. The Sealtest brand was originally a franchise, much like the 'Quality Chekd' dairy brand - local milk bottlers bought the rights to the Sealtest name in their market areas. Luick and presumably all the other franchisees were bought up by National Dairy Co.
Sealtest Dairy Company was founded and operated by Vernon F. Hovey. After his death, the company was turned over to his two sons. They ran the business in the state of New York, before selling the business.
Sealtest was one of the brands
Martin Luther King Jr.
urged people to boycott in the last speech he delivered before
his assassination
, "
I've Been to the Mountaintop
":
Go out and tell your neighbors not to buy Coca-Cola in Memphis. Go by and tell them not to buy Sealtest milk.
The Sealtest brand was ultimately acquired from Kraft (along with
Breyers
) in 1993 by
Unilever
, which retains the underlying rights to the brand.
[1]
[2]
Sealtest milk products are currently produced and packaged by Milkco, Inc. of
Asheville, North Carolina
, a subsidiary of
Ingles
[3]
The brand name is licensed from the
Good Humor-Breyers
subsidiary of Unilever. All Sealtest ice cream products have been discontinued.
[4]
Sealtest also sponsored an
ice cream
store at the
Magic Kingdom
at
Walt Disney World
in
Florida
named Sealtest Ice Cream Parlor and Sealtest Ice Cream Wagon.
[5]