5 Biggest Ice Cream Companies and Brands in America

2. Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, Inc.

Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, Inc. is a California-based ice cream company that is a subsidiary of Froneri. It was owned by Nestle till 2020 and was sold to Froneri for $4 billion along with two other frozen dessert companies.

In January 2022, the company announced that it will hire more than 100 new employees and increase the minimum wage to $20 per hour. The hiring of new employees was a part of the company’s $145 million expansion plan for its production facility in Fort Wayne, announced in June 2021.

At the end of 2021, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream had a revenue of $1.6 billion and a revenue per employee ratio of $158,800 with over 10,000 employees.