The company’s corporate headquarters are located at the “Little Creamery” in Brenham, Texas. In addition to ice cream, the company produces frozen yogurt, sherbet, and an array of frozen treats on a stick. Twenty of the flavors are offered year-round, while an additional two to three dozen are offered seasonally. There are also 50 sales and distribution centers, known as branches, spread throughout its 23-state market.īlue Bell produces over 250 different frozen products. Products are sold in 23 states including: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina and parts of Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and Wyoming.īlue Bell operates three manufacturing facilities, with the largest facility in Brenham, and auxiliary facilities in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and Sylacauga, Alabama. It was in 1930 that the company changed its name to Blue Bell Creameries after the native Texas bluebell wildflower.īlue Bell is only available in about 30% of the US supermarkets and ranks as one of the top three, best-selling ice creams in the country. A few years later, the creamery began making ice cream and delivering it to neighbors by horse and wagon. It all started on a hot summer day when local farmers decided to establish the Brenham Creamery Company and make butter from excess cream brought in by area farmers. Despite being sold in a limited number of states, Blue Bell is the third highest-selling ice cream brand in the United States as a whole. Blue Bell ice cream has also been eaten aboard the International Space Station and at Camp David. Blue Bell sells its ice cream directly in 23 states, mostly in the Southern United States, as well as at least 27 other countries. The genetic sequence did, however, match six old cases of listeria dating back to 2010.Blue Bell Creameries, founded in 1907, is the manufacturer of Blue Bell brand ice cream. And some of it matches what’s in the patients there, but one, I think it was chocolate, did not match what was in the patients at the Kansas hospital,” Tauxe told NBC News. “The investigators go to the freezer in the Kansas hospital and grab the Blue Bell ice cream there and start culturing it. Tauxe says disease detectives discovered this when they were investigating the three deaths from listeria in Kansas. The corporate side of the ice cream giant pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of introducing adulterated food products into interstate commerce in 2020, and paid a total of 19.35 million in. Robert Tauxe, an expert on foodborne diseases at CDC. agreed to plead guilty to charges it shipped contaminated products. Texas-based ice cream manufacturer Blue Bell Creameries L.P. Genetic testing links Blue Bell ice cream that was just made to six cases of listeria in Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona dating back as far ago as 2010, says Dr. Department of Justice FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Friday, May 1, 2020. Information indicates that various Blue Bell brand products are the source of this outbreak.” According to both the Houston Press and The Wall Street Journal, the crisis sent Blue Bell's annual revenue plummeting from 680 million in 2014 to a projected 500 million this year or a loss.
“Several strains of Listeria monocytogenes are involved in this outbreak. “This is a complex and ongoing multistate outbreak investigation of listeriosis illnesses occurring over several years,” CDC said in a statement. And now, the CDC investigation shows they may have been contaminated as far back as 2010. institutional/food service chocolate ice cream cup collected from the Kansas hospital involved in the outbreak. Two of Blue Bell’s facilities were found to be contaminated - one in Texas and one in Oklahoma. On March 22, 2015, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) reported that Listeria was isolated from a previously unopened, single-serving Blue Bell brand 3 oz.
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