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...real oddities of the ice cream industry is that business firms ranging in size from megacorp down to mom and pop can all do very well. No company can be said to dominate; Dart & Kraft, which makes Sealtest and Breyers ice cream, is in first place with sales of $337.3 million in 1979, but its market share is only 12.2%. Borden, with $257.8 million in sales and a 9.3% market share, comes second; Lever Bros., which owns Good Humor, is in seventh place with $62.9 million in sales and a 2.3% market share; and Howard Johnson is ninth with...
...like Sealtest. It's very good-especially the vanilla and the chocolate, and a wonderful mixture called Heavenly Hash...
...frying bacon spewing from the kitchen exhaust fans. On U.S. 66 in Illinois, the truck stops have names like Tiny's, the 66 Terminal Café, El Roy's, the Mill, the Fleetwood. They are the sort of place that serves Ann Page cherry pie with Sealtest ice cream heaped on plastic plates. With the pork chops or cube steak or fried chicken come piles of mashed potatoes and canned creamed corn or cut green beans. The Dixie puts out a fried-chicken dinner "with that come-back taste"; it also boasts a barbershop and two gift shops...
...Sealtest, NSM found ten Negroes employed in a work staff of 1500, well under one per cent. Anthony and his co-workers showed management these figures, and presented them with a very sepecific ultimatum either they would hire 22 Negroes and 15 Puerto Ricans within a month, "or we'd tell all our friends to stop buying Sealtest products...
...What we didn't tell them was that we had spent all summer making friends," he added drily. "We have put a substantial dent in Sealtest's business in New York...