Streets is an Australian ice-cream brand owned by the British multinational company

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. Some products are made in China and shipped to Australia and New Zealand. It is part of Unilever's ice cream brand

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. The company is in a long-term contract with dairy company

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Founding and history

Streets was founded in

Corrimal, New South Wales Corrimal is a northern suburb of the city of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. Corrimal's CBD is situated on the Princes Highway, and several streets adjacent to it. The main shopping centres are Lederer Corrimal and Corrimal Park Mall n ...

, in the 1930s by Edwin "Ted" Street and his wife Daisy. He set up a distribution depot at

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and then a factory where products were manufactured in the Sydney suburb of

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until 1996, when production moved to a new facility in Minto. Today most cream-based products are produced at Minto, while water-based products are imported from China. Streets introduced the Paddle Pop in 1953, and sold over ninety million units by century's end. It is per capita the world's best selling ice cream. In 2017 Unilever applied to the

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to terminate the current

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on wages and conditions and return factory workers to award conditions. The

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, which represents the workers, warned that they face a pay cut of up to 46 per cent. The union called on Australians to boycott Streets products in protest. A settlement was negotiated in November 2017.

Corporate logo

Streets shares the

logo with Wall's,

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, Selecta,

Kibon Kibon is a Brazilian-Argentine ice cream producer, now owned by Unilever. The logo that it uses is the same Heartbrand logo that Wall's ice cream, Good Humor, Streets, Selecta and Langnese use in the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, ...

and

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—used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, Sweden,

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and

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, and

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respectively. All brands are owned by

Brands / Products

The following are some of the brands/products sold under the Streets name. * Bubble O' Bill *

Calippo Calippo is a frozen dessert brand in the UK, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. Products The most common flavours are orange, strawberry and tropical fruit.Cornetto *

Golden Gaytime Golden Gaytime (Cookie Crumble in New Zealand) is a popular ice cream snack that is made and distributed by the Streets confectionery company in Australia, and first released in 1959. It is a toffee and vanilla ice cream dipped in compound choc ...

(Australia) or Cookie Crumble (NZ) * Magnum * Paddle Pop *

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Founding and history

Corporate logo

Brands / Products

See also

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