GB Glace (originally Glace-Bolaget until 1991) is the largest ice cream company in Sweden. It was founded in 1942 and after they had become a partner in 1973, was eventually fully purchased by the British company Unilever in 1996.[1]
History
Early history
Ice cream has been produced in Sweden since the late 1920s. Stockholm’s first ice cream manufacturer was called Choklad-Thule. In Uppsala, the company Fyris started ice cream production in the early 1930s but declared bankruptcy in 1933. Until 1934, Pressbyrån collaborated with Choklad-Thule on the delivery of ice cream. In the same year, the company terminated the agreement and began its production with Fyri’s old machines. This became the basis for Alaska Glace in Stockholm.
The company Mjölkcentralen (MC) started ice cream production in 1934, after Eric Wilhelm Hanner, son of one of the managers at Mjölkcentralen, came back from studying the production of ice cream in various countries, among them Denmark, Switzerland and the USA.