Peters Ice Cream

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Peters Ice Cream is an Australian ice cream brand developed by American expatriate Fred Peters in 1907, using his mother's recipe. The company was established in Redfern, Sydney as the Peters' American Delicacy Company.^[1] The company (Petersville Australia Limited) hub later became the factory in the Melbourne suburb of Mulgrave, which remains the production centre for most of its ice-cream products. The company was taken over by Adsteam in the late 1980s, and then Pacific Dunlop (now known as Ansell) upon Adsteam's collapse. Pacific Dunlop sold its food assets in the mid 1990's, and the ice cream division was acquired by Nestlé, who still produces many Australian icon brands (such as 'Choc-Wedge', 'Drumstick', 'Eskimo Pie') under the Peters Ice Cream logo in all Australian states except Western Australia, where the company Peters and Brownes holds the trademark and continues to produce a similar line of products. In this state, Nestlé is forced to use different packaging on the reduced line of ice creams it sells.