Ice Cream

Blue Bunny® Ice Cream - Ice Cream Fun Facts

• Wells’ Dairy was founded in 1913 by Fred H. Wells Jr.
• We are the largest family owned and managed dairy processor in the United States.
• There is more ice cream made in the city of Le Mars, Iowa than any other one location on earth, making
  Le Mars the Ice Cream Capital of the World®!
• During one of our busiest weeks, 707 loads of ice cream left the city of Le Mars. That’s 4.21 trailers an hour or one trailer every 14 minutes!
  
  
• Wells’ Dairy has three ice cream plants that produce Blue Bunny® frozen treats. Two in Le Mars, Iowa and one in St. George, UT.
• Wells’ Dairy has about 550 vehicles in its transportation fleet.
• The storage freezer at Wells’ Dairy is 12 stories high, a city-block long, holds 53,000 pallets of ice cream and maintains a 20 degree below zero temperature, making it one of the largest and coldest freezers in the world.
• We produce over 100 million gallons of ice cream per year. That’s over 250,000 gallons per day!
• It takes over 1.5 billion sticks a year to make our ice cream novelties. If you placed them all end to end, it would stretch over three times around the earth’s equator!
• There are 70 Blue Bunny® ice cream flavors – what’s your favorite?
• Vanilla is the most popular Blue Bunny® ice cream flavor, followed by Chocolate and Bunny Tracks®. Which flavor of Vanilla is your favorite? We make five! Vanilla, French Vanilla, Homemade Vanilla, All Natural Vanilla and New York Vanilla.
• We manufacture ice cream for many national restaurant chains.
• The annual tonnage of chocolate ice cream bar coating would cover 47 football fields at a thickness of 1 inch, that’s over 8 million pounds!
• Our product can be found in all 50 states and in more than a dozen foreign countries.
• We purchased enough strawberries each year to fill over 1 million strawberry pies!
• We use 1,127,600 pounds of pecans annually – which equals the combined weight of 16 adult Humpback Whales – making our ice cream treats nuttier than ever!
• Stacking the total number of Big Bopper® sandwiches produced in a year would extend over 500,000 feet into the sky – that’s more than 12 times higher than the flying altitude of commercial airplanes!